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Manager Herbert Chapman and Arsenal's all-time top goal scorer Thierry Henry, [21] and later Dennis Bergkamp, were also immortalised with statues outside the ground. He brought the money home from lorry driving and mum said “I married your father because he had a job and didn’t knock me about”. Sober gave me a much better impression of Adam’s post playing career than the easy narrative of failed manager which I suspect many fans of English football have.

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My wife’s not my mum, as she keeps reminding me, but when I get poorly I still want scrambled eggs done the way Mother did them. With Sven-Göran Eriksson eventually taking the helm and under increasing pressure for his place from the emerging and improving Rio Ferdinand, Adams retired from international football, having made 66 appearances, [24] before Eriksson picked his first squad. Yes, he’s honest about his alcoholism, and that was probably revelatory in 1998, but not as much now.

In December 2018, Adams was named as the 29th President of the Rugby Football League from summer 2019, replacing politician Andy Burnham; [62] [63] he was succeeded in the honorary role by broadcaster Clare Balding a year later. After a highly promising start to his international career, Adams suffered a series of setbacks during the early 1990s.

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I’d heard this described as the greatest football autobiography, but it wasn’t any better than many others.England lost all three games, but Adams scored one of England's two goals in the tournament in a 3–1 defeat to the Soviet Union.