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Tony Adams lifts the Premiership trophy after the final home game of the season at Highbury in 1998. Photograph: Professional Sport/Popperfoto/Getty Images I should probably mention that I was living in Florida when Arsene Wenger took over the Arsenal, and it was that move, near to a little Irish Pub named "The Fly's Tie" that allowed me to follow football in earnest. Until then I'd been living in Canada, and I had no access to football beyond some indoctrination from my Scouser neighbours (which made me a Gooner rather than a Red or a Toffee because I couldn't, in good conscience, follow their clubs) and an occasional and quite rare international match. Once in Jax, however, I discovered that football was on every Saturday and Sunday at the Pub, and I became duly addicted. I found this a really interesting book, not what I was expecting at all. Tony Adams to me is Mr Tub Thumping, follow him out of the trenches kind of a man. But this book shows him to have so many deeper levels to his character that by the end I was thinking of him less as a footballer and more of him as someone who helps others, be it in their professional or private lives.

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Sober uses the language of AA and recovery much more regularly as Adams has spent the last 20 years maintaining his sobriety. It can feel a little much at times but it wouldn’t be Adams own voice if it didn’t. Adams major post career achievement is the founding and ongoing survival of Sporting Chance, a charity dedicated to helping sportsmen and women with addictions. Lawrence, Amy (6 June 2016). "The lost art of defending: how style has replaced solidity in England's DNA". The Guardian . Retrieved 27 April 2020. School-Home Support (SHS) announces new charity patron – Tony Adams MBE". London: School-Home Support . Retrieved 17 March 2017. Tony Adams. What a true, loyal footballer - perhaps the best captain that Arsenal have ever had. Of course, asides from his great career, we know all about his struggles away from the pitch with alcohol - so I did wonder how much this would feature in the book.Read this in preparation for seeing Tony Adams being interviewed by Pat Nevin at the Edinburgh Book Festival later this month. More a book about Alcoholics Anonymous than one relating his career at Arsenal as it mainly covers his life after he retired from playing. It is a very candid account of his problems and of his stop start career as a manager though. We used to have a Christmas drink at Arsenal, starting at midday. For me and some others the bender usually went on for three or four days. After I gave up booze, I matched them cappuccino to lager. By 3am I’d done 23 cappuccinos; I was totally wired, shaking. As you can imagine, I was expecting to love Addicted, Adams' account of his two great addictions -- booze and football. I am thoroughly disappointed.

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A searingly honest account of the Arsenal legend’s quest to recover from alcoholism. Unflinchingly brave.’ Sunday Mirror Now, in that book’s stunning successor Sober, Adams reveals what happened next. He discusses the impact that Arsene Wenger had when he arrived at Arsenal in 1996, and how the manager’s new methods helped extend his career and brought new success to the club. Always a great thinker on the game, Adams moved into coaching and management on retirement, playing a key role in Portsmouth’s famous FA Cup triumph in 2008, and taking on new challenges in the Netherlands, Azerbaijan, China and now Spain to broaden his perspective. I put down alcohol but I couldn’t put down fish and chips. I sobered up on Friday 16 August 1996 at five in the afternoon after a three-day bender. I had a surrender moment – a moment of clarity – then went across the road to the chippy. I went to bed with fish and chips for the whole weekend, detoxing. I woke up on Monday with pieces of fried cod and potatoes.In October 2012, Adams returned to Gabala in the capacity of Sporting Director. [44] Granada [ edit ] A solidly good read, though not a great one. Perhaps this is because the book was written 15 years ago, so many of the football references seem a bit dated. But as the title suggests, the crux of this book is about addiction and Adams' story of how he overcame his demons.

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Wycombe began 2004–05 in the fourth tier, renamed League Two. Although the club were top of the table in August 2004, a loss of form saw them fall down the table. Adams resigned from Wycombe on 9 November 2004, with the club in 17th, citing personal reasons. [37] Feyenoord [ edit ] Adams took various courses and coaching badges before trying his hand at management with Wycome. After resigning there, he returned to education before joining Portsmouth as Harry Redknapp’s assistant during their high spending days that included an FA Cup victory. He ultimately became manager after Harry left but appears to never had had much of a chance due to budget cuts before asking to be fired to save himself from resigning. Mannion, Damian (4 July 2012). "From Ronaldo to Owen, Dalglish to Clough, Adams to Senderos: famous numbers worn by crap players". Talksport . Retrieved 12 October 2022. Team of the Century: 1997–2007 – the Premiership's finest of the last decade". GiveMeFootball.com. Give Me Football. 5 September 2007. Archived from the original on 21 October 2008 . Retrieved 2 June 2016.

Tony Adams, Lauren Booth, Geraldine James and Elle Macpherson share experience, strength and hopes". nacoa.org.uk. 19 October 2015. Archived from the original on 12 July 2019 . Retrieved 12 July 2019. In 2022, he took part as a celebrity contestant in the twentieth series of Strictly Come Dancing being partnered by dance professional Katya Jones. I regret my own parents not teaching me to cook. Thank god for my wife, a fantastic cook. Her name was Poppy Teacher [a member of the whisky family] when I met her, when I’d given up drink and self-medication. I encountered a loving family, very knowledgeable of the bad effects of alcohol, but I can still say I wake up with a Teacher’s every morning. That’s my joke. Adams made his debut for England against Spain in 1987, [8] and played in UEFA Euro 1988. England lost all three games, but Adams scored one of England's two goals in the tournament in a 3–1 defeat to the Soviet Union. He was the first player to represent England who had been born after the 1966 World Cup win. Rudd, Alyson (29 December 2008). "William Gallas is Arsenal's unlikely saviour". The Times . Retrieved 2 September 2020.

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When his playing career finished, Adams went into football management, spending periods in charge of Wycombe Wanderers, Portsmouth, Azerbaijani side Gabala and Spanish side Granada. A bit of a traipse really. And he comes across as a bit of an arse, both of which were a real disappointment(although the latter, by the time I got to the end, certainly made sense on the journey to self improvement that he went on).

Watts, Charles (16 February 2018). "27 years on: The inside story of Tony Adams' return from prison as told by those who were there". Football London . Retrieved 12 October 2022. Adams appointed new Pompey boss". BBC. London. 28 October 2008. Archived from the original on 13 February 2009 . Retrieved 28 October 2008. Adams's strong discipline of the defence was considered a factor in Arsenal winning the League Cup in 1986–87 and then the First Division championship twice; the first in 1988–89 after a win over Liverpool in the final game of the season; the second in 1990–91, losing once all season. International goals [ edit ] Scores and results list England's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Adams goal. [55] List of international goals scored by Tony Adams