Filed under: Adebayor, Arsenal, Man City, Van Persie | Tags: Adebayor, Arsenal, Man City, Van Persie
If you haven’t heard yet Emmanuel Adebayor is a face stomping, money grubbing, showboater.
Adebayor is a Face Stomper
Let’s start with the face stomping of Robin Van Persie.
Van Persie Bleeding After Being Stomped by Emmanuel Adebayor
If you haven’t seen the video, check it out here. It would be easy to pass this off in real time, saying he was just following through with his run, so it is of no surprise that the ref missed this during play, let alone the ref was not in a good position to view it. Look closer and you will see that Adebayor looks down at Van Persie’s face, not the ball, and purposely scrapes it across his face, also trying to step on his hand on the way down.
Even Robin Van Persie, himself, says it was intentional.
“I am sad and disappointed by my former team-mate Emmanuel Adebayor’s mindless and malicious stamp on me during today’s match.”
“We are both professional footballers and I know that the game is physical, I too have made hard and sometimes mis-timed challenges but never with the intention of hurting an opponent. He set out to hurt me.”
You would think Adebayor would apologize profusely after something like this, if not to just appease the FA and get a lesser ban. Adebayor said; “To be honest, I’m very sorry for all this. Sometimes, the emotion takes over. That’s what happened. I was very happy to score the goal. Before the game, people have been saying and writing things and the emotions took over.”
Yes emotions take over, but you must be responsible for those actions. Not only does he not give a good apology, he goes straight into how he scored. If we had insight into Adebayor’s inner thoughts I believe they would go something like this; “Look at me! Look at me! Oops, oh well. LOOK AT ME!”
The FA need to take action and follow through with a severe punishment for Emmanuel Adebayor. He intentionally hurt another player. Not only is that classless, it has no place in the beautiful game.
Adebayor the Money Grubber
Man City’s spending spree has been well documented. They spent over $175 million during the summer transfer period. Adebayor received a nice pay increase last year from Arsenal and his play diminished. The fans turned on him. How delicate is one’s ego to think that you shouldn’t be booed after a hefty pay raise and getting less results?! Not only did his play fall off, it seemed at times that he wasn’t even trying and was already looking towards the transfer window.
Adebayor the Showboater
This I have the least problem with of the three things I’m accusing Adebayor of. Sorry to end that sentence with a preposition, I’ll try not to do it on the next. Oops. Anyway…I don’t have a problem with celebrating after goals, I enjoy it. After all, one of the best things about FIFA 2009 is doing the reverse worm celebration after you score against the computer on amateur difficulty, but Adebayor’s pitch-long run to celebrate in the other corner wasn’t needed. Yes, you just scored against your former squad and the fans that (rightfully) began to despise you due to your poor form last year. If I were Adebayor I would have ran to the corner flag and made a simple gesture of my finger over my lips. He wanted to silence his critics, but instead he has inflamed them with his repeated classless acts.
I hope the FA give him a stiff penalty. Will he listen and clean up his act? No. He will serve his punishment and carry on.
When you think of world class footballers, let the antithesis be Emmanuel Adebayor.
