Tony Adams - Azerbaijan
Tony Adams - Azerbaijan
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Corpulent Tosser

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5,468 posts

267 months

Monday 17th May 2010
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I met Tony Adams on the Boulavard in Baku, Azerbaijan yesterday. He has recently taken over a manager of Gabala, a team from a city around 3hrs drive from Baku, up in the mountains.
He seemed a pleasant chap, took a few minutes to speak to us and commented on what a good life we had, sitting in the sunshine drinking beer.

He is in a for a bit of a shock though I think. This is the most pleasant time of year here, around 25deg and low humidity, by late june/july it will be in the high 40s and unpleasantly humid, then come oct it gets good for a while before the snow and ice which the Azerbaijanis are even more inept than the Brits at coping with, the roads don't get cleared and the road surface (never the best anyway) breaks up with potholes you could lose several children in.

Good luck to him anyway.

tuffer

8,959 posts

289 months

Monday 17th May 2010
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I bumped into him on Royal Westmorland golf course, I hit a 3 iron through the 9th green and into his golf cart. smile He was with Teddy Sheringham, they were having a breakfast at the halfway hut.

Nom de ploom

4,890 posts

196 months

Monday 17th May 2010
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he's going to turn out for the first team apparently this week - he said to his assistant "I'm not as young as I used to be - pull me off at half time" and the coach said "jaysus, the last manager only wanted an orange"


Corpulent Tosser

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5,468 posts

267 months

Monday 17th May 2010
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Nom de ploom said:
he's going to turn out for the first team apparently this week - he said to his assistant "I'm not as young as I used to be - pull me off at half time" and the coach said "jaysus, the last manager only wanted an orange"
An oldie but a goodie biggrin

Cupid Stunt

528 posts

192 months

Monday 17th May 2010
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Nom de ploom said:
he's going to turn out for the first team apparently this week - he said to his assistant "I'm not as young as I used to be - pull me off at half time" and the coach said "jaysus, the last manager only wanted an orange"
(c) Rodney Marsh

webbyst

31,973 posts

190 months

Monday 17th May 2010
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My brother in law sold him a bed in peter Jones , Said he was a really nice fella ,

well whoopie doo