You have to love Tony Adams of Arsenal. After all he’s been through with the booze, which he would admit was all entirely self-inflicted, his turnaround has been spectacular. After his testimonial game Monday night, he is waiting a scan on his knee to see if he can continue for another year, but his reaction was, “if not, it’s thank you very much and I’m off to play my piano.”
How many players, especially English center halves, would have said such a thing, even a few years ago? And how he managed to hold down an international football career while consuming as much alcohol as he did through the 1990s is mind-boggling.