Tony Adams<\/strong>legend of Arsenal<\/strong> who came to train Granada<\/strong> In 2017, he speaks openly about the three decades since he revealed his battles with alcohol.<\/p>\n We have seen that Tramadol has become a problem for players. We’ve had a couple of suicides recently.<\/p>\n Tony Adams<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The former soccer player is about to turn 60, but he doesn’t want to celebrate his birthday. What Adams really wants to commemorate is the 30 years since he announced he was an alcoholic, the 30 years since He got drunk for 44 days after England’s elimination from Euro 96<\/strong>. 30 years of your new life.<\/p>\n I drank for 12 years and I didn’t want to stop… I was in prison, I fell down the stairs and I still wanted to keep drinking<\/p>\n Tony Adams<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n “I am very proud that I have not wet the bed in 30 years. I am incredibly proud”<\/strong>confessed the legendary English footballer in confessions, which reproduces the ‘Daily Mail’<\/strong>in his book titled ‘1996′<\/strong>. <\/p>\n “In 1996 I was 29 and I didn’t want to be in this world. I knew I was completely trapped and that’s the worst place I’ve ever been. In March, they took my kids. I didn’t drink around them, but I passed out on a Sunday night. I drank seven bottles of Chablis wine. So the mother-in-law took the kids.”<\/p>\n Tony Adams: “I’m very proud of not having wet the bed in 30 years”<\/span>EPA<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n That same year Tony Adams started going to Alcoholics Anonymous<\/strong> and there his life changed, a fact for which he heartily thanks his mother-in-law: “She saved my life<\/strong>“.<\/p>\n About the alcohol culture in football<\/strong> Adams said: “There was a drinking culture at the time. Not all, but most of the teams went out for a drink after the games and drank a lot. A couple of times I played drunk… one was with Sheffield United. The night before I had gotten drunk and when I got up I was still drunk. I think at that point I couldn’t stay sober so my solution was to drink again. And if I hadn’t drunk again, I wouldn’t have been able to play that game.”<\/p>\n My grandfather was an angry drunk, he used to go to the pub and come home with a bunch of keys on the table. If you said a word, I would throw it in your face.<\/p>\n Tony Adams<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n “I drank for 12 years and I didn’t want to stop… I was in prison, I fell down the stairs and I still wanted to keep drinking,” he recalled in his autobiography. ‘Addicted’<\/strong>. <\/p>\n “One is as sick as one’s secrets”<\/strong>says Adams, “and when I went to talk to the guys in 1996 and told them, they said, ‘Well, we’ve been telling you this for a couple of years, you’ve become a laughing stock.’ We won the league in ’91 and we didn’t win it again until I stopped drinking,” he confessed. <\/p>\n Tony Adams acknowledges that his own problems were partly hereditary<\/strong> and reveals in ‘1996’ that His son from his first marriage, Oliver, also developed an alcohol addiction.<\/strong> and now he is also a recovering alcoholic.<\/p>\n “My grandfather was a hopeless, angry drunk, he used to go to the pub and come home with a bunch of keys on the table. If you said a word, he would throw them in your face,” he remembers.<\/p>\n I drank for 12 years and I didn’t want to stop… I was in prison, I fell down the stairs and I still wanted to keep drinking<\/span>MARK<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n The former soccer player shared that in his childhood “I received totally wrong messages: that I had to toughen up and repress, repress, repress. And I think that’s where my problems arose, and I realized that soccer helped me achieve it. It repressed me.”<\/p>\n Tony Adams collaborates with the Sporting Chance clinic<\/strong> and your support network Six<\/strong> to offer his help, based on his experience, to today’s sports stars suffering from mental health problems<\/strong> and go through the same situation addictions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n What is happening is that athletes have changed their drug of choice. Gambling is an epidemic, both in football and in society<\/p>\n Tony Adams<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n “We have seen that Tramadol has become a problem for rugby players. We have had a couple of suicides recently. There have been problems with jockeys and a young footballer, all clients of Sporting Chance,” says Tony Adams.<\/p>\n Tony Adams: “I’m very proud of not having wet the bed in 30 years”<\/span>\n
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Tony Adams: “At 29 years old I didn’t want to be in this world and my mother-in-law saved my life”<\/h2>\n
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<\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>Tony Adams describes football’s ‘alcohol culture’: ‘You’ve become a laughingstock’<\/h2>\n
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Tony Adam reveals the “repression” he suffered in his childhood that led him to alcoholism<\/h2>\n
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<\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>Tony Adams warns about addiction problems in sports stars: “There have been suicides”<\/h2>\n
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