The number 6 shirt that Adams wore when playing was not used again until the 2006–07 season, when it was assigned to Philippe Senderos. She chuckled that he was "entertaining", rather than accomplishing the dance moves she had expected.

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In September 2000, as a result of his own experiences with alcoholism and drug addiction, Adams founded the Sporting Chance Clinic, a charitable foundation aimed at providing treatment, counselling and support for sports men and women suffering from drink, drug or gambling addictions. An honest and powerful story about how an alcoholic is not just the stereotypical bum on the park bench but can be the Captain of the England football team. Since I read Tony Adams' first autobiography, Addicted, around 20+ years ago, I have found myself working with many recovering addicts, and accompanying many through the recovery process.

There's a wealth of stories about various famous matches and characters from the game, and true to his word Adams speaks about everything with honesty.

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With Arsenal, he won four top flight division titles, uniquely captaining a title-winning team in three different decades, three FA Cups, two Football League Cups, a UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and two FA Community Shields. For anyone who is interested in Arsenal football club, football in general or alcoholism then I do seriously recommend this. SHS helps disadvantaged children and young people overcome barriers to education such as poverty, domestic abuse and housing issues. As one who continues to wrestle with issues around my mental health, I too can relate deeply to the experience he describes of being desperate to end it all, but too scared to die.International goals [ edit ] Scores and results list England's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Adams goal. Sober is a truly inspirational memoir from someone who has battled with his demons, but has continued to take things on, one day at a time. In August 2002, just before the start of the 2002–03 season, Adams retired from professional football after a career spanning almost 20 years, his last match being the 2002 FA Cup Final. On 10 April 2017, Adams was named as manager of La Liga strugglers Granada CF until the end of the 2016–17 season. Lot of good photos in there, small anecdotes which give you an insight on how professional football used to work in the last decade!

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Człowieka, który może i popełnił w swoim życiu wiele błędów, ale i wyciągnął z nich odpowiednie wnioski. In his first season as assistant, Portsmouth finished ninth in the Premier League – their highest standing since the 1950s and won the 2007–08 FA Cup. Manager Herbert Chapman and Arsenal's all-time top goal scorer Thierry Henry, [21] and later Dennis Bergkamp, were also immortalised with statues outside the ground. The dust jacket of this book is slightly damaged/ripped, however, this does not affect the internal condition.Tony Adams' autobiography reveals that he is not just a stupid man but a stupid footballing man (a man who should never be handed another opportunity to manage a football club). But as the title suggests, the crux of this book is about addiction and Adams' story of how he overcame his demons. It's a horrible, dark place to be in - and the more people like Tony Adams talk about their own experiences of this openly, the more 'ordinary' people will realise they are not alone and will be able to reach out for help. To win the things he did whilst being drunk is ridiculous and then to get sober, come back and score that iconic goal against Everton to secure the title, WOW.