Emmanuel Adebayor should apologise for his poor performance against Arsenal

[thinktank]

Spurs striker Emmanuel Adebayor should apologise for his poor performance against Arsenal

SO Emmanuel Adebayor has apologised for that knee slide in front of the Arsenal fans performed when he was excited to be at Manchester City and Manchester City were still excited about him.

"I regret it," he said. "When you give someone a stick, even if you keep abusing your son or daughter at home, you have to expect a reaction one day from him or her. That is what I have done, but for me it is behind."

Classy child abuse theme there Ade, but you should really issue another apology to the Tottenham fans for your performance in this game, which was certainly nothing to celebrate.

Twice he had great chances to open the scoring in the first half. The first, had he got anything extra on his header, it would surely have gone in.

The second saw him try to round the keeper so slowly it was painful to watch.

And then there was the time in the second half when Ade was busy tying his laces for what seemed an age while his team-mates battled on without him.

All this in a north London derby, on an evening when skipper Younes Kaboul was a rock in defence, Hugo Lloris was proving time and time again what a great keeper he is and everyone else in white was working overtime to keep the red horde at bay.

The Adebayor situation is an intriguing one.

Daniel Levy, as chairman, pays him a lot of money so likes to see him on the pitch. Tim Sherwood understood this, not that it did him any good in the long run, but Andre Villas-Boas wouldn't pick him and that did for him.

Mauricio Pochettino plays the man from Togo of course but would he had Danny Welbeck checked in at White Hart Lane instead of the Emirates Stadium on deadline day?

Actually, maybe. The England man started brightly before fading completely, although he did have a bizarre cameo in Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's equaliser.

As for Poch he proved in this one he likes a wild card pick as well.

That man was Ryan Mason, 23 years old and previously ignored by a succession of previous gaffers.

With not even a minute of Premier League action under his belt before being thrust into this one, the midfielder was all over the place early on but settled and was as good as anyone in the end.

Mason said: "I've had a few opportunities to leave. But I wanted to play for Spurs so bad that I never really wanted to think about leaving.

"I wanted to stay and give it a go and see what happened. The change in manager helped me. If previous managers were still in charge maybe I wouldn't be here."

Arsene Wenger was grumpy afterwards but so would you be if you'd seen both Mikel Arteta and Aaron Ramsey forced off injured before the break and Jack Wilshere twist that already suspect ankle.

The first two are definitely out of Wednesday's Champions League visit of Galatasaray and Sunday's Premier League showdown at leaders Chelsea. Wilshere is a doubt too at a time when there are still plenty of long-term absentees in the treatment room.

At least Arsenal didn't lose the derby. Tottenham caught them napping for Nacer Chadli's 56th minute opener, with Mathieu Flamini, Arteta's replacement, robbed in front of his own box by Christian Eriksen.

Erik Lamela slipped Chadli in and the Belgian stroked the ball across Wojchiech Szczesny.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/fo...gise-for-his-poor-performance-against-Arsenal

 

[Syn_13]

As much as I do think Ade should be dropped as he's in poor form, that article really is shite. Sounds like he's got a proper hate-boner for him.

 

[ShaunL84]

Players shouldn't apologize for their performances as It creates a slippery slope and division, Imagine if a couple apologize and one doesn't, the fans would turn on him and all sorts.

Win as a team and lose as a team.

 

[Nocando]

Players shouldn't apologize for their performances as It creates a slippery slope and division, Imagine if a couple apologize and one doesn't, the fans would turn on him and all sorts.

Win as a team and lose as a team.

As Syn said the article is a joke. The only grace is that it's reassuring that the press in this country really is on the slide. The support provided by inmates, codgers and neanderthals can only last so long before they have to rely solely on 10 year old bloggers to write their articles. We're obviously getting very close to that stage.

 

[FITZ]

Only way to make it up is the play better in the next game. (If he's not dropped)

 

[poc]

Ridiculous and he wasn't half as bad as some would have us believe.

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

bilge

 

[Geyzer Soze]

What a total load of shite. Good games, bad games, we win and lose as a team.

 

[bern]

Cackypoo poo.

 

[mmillerlight]

He should get his blood work and hormones checked out again. Maybe its an issue with malaria but he was fatigued from the start. Maybe his muscles are not recovering as quick as other players in pochs training. His movements were that of an older player with fatigued muscles with lactic acid build up. Watch him close and watch an older vid of his, his movement looks so much slower. Even his turn and shot seemed so labored, even for him. Just my thoughts

 

[bern]

If we can see his problem why can't others?

 

[Strikeb4ck]

He should get his blood work and hormones checked out again. Maybe its an issue with malaria but he was fatigued from the start. Maybe his muscles are not recovering as quick as other players in pochs training. His movements were that of an older player with fatigued muscles with lactic acid build up. Watch him close and watch an older vid of his, his movement looks so much slower. Even his turn and shot seemed so labored, even for him. Just my thoughts

Agree, it was a strange pair of performances against WBA and Arsenal. We've seen Ade have poor games before but then it's usually a case of his touch being completely off, squandering chances, being offside every time, or just playing poorly overall. In the past two games he has looked dead tired from the first whistle, he looks slow and incapable of putting in a shift. I don't know too much about malaria but something definitely seems wrong with him physically.

 

[nidge]

The person who wrote that article is a thunder****.

 

[parklane1]

What a load of shit.

 

[TaoistMonkey]

Win and lose as a team???

What if we scored 15 goals but Lloris couldn't be arsed and let in 16 despite the efforts from the other players. Should they all take responsibility for that?

Ade fucked up against Arsenal whilst the rest of the team worked their socks off.

 

[Geyzer Soze]

Win and lose as a team???

What if we scored 15 goals but Lloris couldn't be arsed and let in 16 despite the efforts from the other players. Should they all take responsibility for that?

Ade fucked up against Arsenal whilst the rest of the team worked their socks off.

Lets talk about that eventuality when there is a 15/16 loss.

In the absence of such an occurance, due to 1 person, then IMO yes, win and lose as a team. It's a team sport.

 

[Kiedis]

I think Ade put in good shifts in the first games of the season, and did work hard even though he wasn't the AdebaMessi of last winter. His performances in the last two games have been sub par, to say the least.

Making him a vice captain hasn't woken him, so I'd like to see more of Soldado with Eriksen, Lamela and Chadli. I may be way off, but hasn't Soldados games mostly came with Townsend-Paulinho-Lennon behind him? Hardly the best of service based on their form this far.

The question is whether Ade is capable of being benched without creating an absolute shit-fest.

 

[TaoistMonkey]

Lets talk about that eventuality when there is a 15/16 loss.

In the absence of such an occurance, due to 1 person, then IMO yes, win and lose as a team. It's a team sport.

It is a team sport but when you play with 10 men in a NLD then that 11th man needs be held accountable.

 

[HotspurFC1950]

Malaria can hang around for a very very long time.

 

[Geyzer Soze]

Malaria can hang around for a very very long time.

Forever, I think. it commonly reoccurs anyway in someone who's had it.

having said that, comign from tropical Togo i would imagine that it is not his first brush with malaria and won't be his last.