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Football transfer rumours: Tony Adams to St Etienne?
guardian.co.uk Dec 16 2009 04:26
Today`s waft is settledThe Mill can still remember exactly when it all started to go wrong for its favourite lumbering equine colossus Tony Adams. It was the moment Arsène Wenger described him, albeit light-heartedly, as "a professor of defending". Until then Adams had been quite happy as a shambling, funny little elbows-out-trotting, wholehearted-like-Boxer-from-Animal-Farm, comically yodelling defensive obstacle. The problem was, Adams took it seriously. The idea of a professor of defending didn`t seem silly to him – the equivalent of a professor of jostling or a professor of running sideways and pointing. It seemed like an entirely plausible alternative identity and so he set about dedicating himself to his professorship, becoming tousled and pensive and furrowed, speaking