Tony Adams is Insane
In what he describes as his “first and last interview as manager of Portsmouth,” Tony Adams unleashed the crazy on The Daily Mail’s Matt Lawton. Why was this his first and last interview? Well, as Adams puts it: “I don’t actually like people. I’m a loner and if I had my way I’d just walk my dogs every day, never talk to anyone and then die.”
Lovely. With a sentiment like that, it’s really fantastic that he’s in a managerial position with a Premier League club, under the scrutiny of millions of people around the world, as opposed to, say, a recluse living in the woods and writing manifestos.
Other bits of unadulterated nuttiness from the lips of Mr. Adams:
“You might find me a little bit weird, I suppose. But eccentric? I think it’s got a place in society. I’d love it if I had a nutty aunt or a nutty grandad. I think it’s got its place. It would be wonderful at Christmas.”
A somewhat odd tangent on a familial holiday wish, but ok. Moving on:
“In the last 12 years (since he stopped drinking) I’ve actually slowed myself up. I have journeyed from the head to the heart. And I make more decisions from the heart because I don’t always trust the head. I can have some quite eccentric thoughts.
“I have lots of thoughts and opinions. But I now have the ability not to act on all of them. Twelve years ago that wasn’t the case. Now it is. Even in this interview there are things I might have said that I have chosen not to. It’s the greatest gift that therapy has given me. That I don’t act on all my thoughts and feelings.”
Translation: “The voices in my head are telling me to kill you, Matt Lawton, and play with your blood, but I don’t listen to them anymore because the doctors will hook me up to the electrodes again.”
Alright, that takes us pretty deep into Psychoville, but, come on Tony, let’s go to the top of the bell tower and really let loose with a proclamation of madness:
[Arsenal manager Arsene] Wenger rang him when he was given the Portsmouth job. ‘He welcomed me to hell, but I said: “This is not hell, Arsene.” I’ve been to hell.‘
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And remember, this is 12 years after he stopped drinking. Yeah. Welcome to Crazytown, Portsmouth. Tony Adams will be your tour guide and I hope you’ve had your rabies shots.
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