Facts about Tony Adams, Mr. Arsenal

Appearing successfully on the pitch and leaving a rich career history as a footballer and a manager, Tony Alexander Adams is a prominent man in the football world. He formerly was an excellent player of England's national team and Arsenal and captained both. He also got the title of the President of the Rugby Football League in 2019. 

Admas's career as a footballer lasted for 19 years, and he spent the entire era with Arsenal as a center-back. As a player considered by Arsenal fans to be the club's greatest player of all time. His name was also among the Football League 100 Legends.

By the end of his playing period, Adams spent about 14 years as a manager in different clubs, such as Wycombe Wanderers, Portsmouth, Gabala, and Granada.

The life story of the English man on and off the pitch has a lot to share. Join us to read the most notable 

facts about Tony Adams.

Facts about Tony Adams you might like to know

First let's take a quick look at some general facts about Tony Adams.

• Full Name: 

  Tony Alexander Adams

• Nickname: 

  Mr. Arsenal

• Date of Birth: 

  10 October 1966

• Place of Birth: 

  Romford, London, England

• Parents: 

  Alex Adams (his father)

• Sibling(s): 

  Denise, Sandra

• Zodiac Sign: 

  Libra

• Position: 

  Center back

• Height: 

  6 ft 3 in (1.91m)

• Team(s) Played: 

  Arsenal

• Teams(s) Managed: 

  Wycombe Wanderers, Portsmouth, Gabala, Granada 

Time to go through the top 

facts about Tony Adams

 and unveil much info about his personal and professional life.

Tony Adams Early Life

Tony Adams was born on 10 October 1966 and grew up in Dagenham, opposite a police station and a bakery. Based on what he remembers of those days and the memories he has explained regarding the era, 

Tony Adams early life

 was full of fear.

As Tony described, he did not like school and always cried to go there. Adams remembers the low-quality food of school and said that the school food was as bad as prisons'. When Adams was five, he joined the Hunters Hall Primary School in 1971. He continued studying there for the next seven years and then joined Eastbrook Comprehensive School and stayed there until 1983. 

According to his words in several interviews, football has been his main interest since those days, which through his strive he could follow and fulfill his childhood dream. During his childhood, Adam was famous as a gangly and awkward boy who was shy incredibly. He preferred to be by himself instead of spending time with others.

However, some years later, when Tony became older, his personality changed to a leader. He described his days and said, "I felt assertive on the football pitch, which was in complete contrast to the real me, who was scared and introverted. As a kid going through pain, I had football. But there is only so much time you can be on the football pitch – sooner or later, you have to look in that mirror."

Tony Adams Parents

Born to his father, Alex Adams, and his mother, an unknown name to the media, Tony Adams spent his childhood beside them. However, he does not have many memories of his parents as much as other children usually have.

Lack of info about 

Tony Adams parents

 and even his early life has limited our knowledge about them to what he has explained in his interviews. His mother was a large lady, which nowadays people call an obese person. Although she was overweight a lot, she used to have loads of cake with Aunt Reni. It is the main memory that Adams has about his mother. 

What he remembers of his father is a man who never cooked at home. His father was a lorry driver, and through it, he earned money for his family. Adams repeated his mother's words in an interview and said, "I married your father because he had a job and did not knock me about." Adams added that maybe there was some love between them too. 

His father, Alex, suffered lung cancer, and after many years of battling against the disease, he died. There was a strong relationship between him and his father, who guided him during his career. After Alex's death, Adams' sister, Denise, posted a text and said, "It has been traumatic for Tony.

He was so close to dad - it makes me cry thinking about it." Alex was such a hero in Adams' life and always supported him in training as a young footballer and even helped him through the era he was addicted to alcohol and his marriage break-up. 

Within the recent years of his life, losing a kidney, undergoing triple heart surgery, and suffering a thrombosis had weakened his health situation. Shortly after the death of his mother, doctors diagnosed him, which was a heavy smoker, with lung cancer.

However, Alex's willingness to live had amazed his doctors. Alex had vowed to participate in his 35-year-old testimonial game at Highbury even he needed constant oxygen to breathe. Late in life, Alex was in Stapleford Abbotts, Essex, and his children, Tony, Denis, and Sandra, were beside their father when he died.

Later, his oldest child said, "Each of us spent our own time with him. We told him how much we loved him and spoke of the holidays we used to have. In a way, it is a relief because he was in such pain. But we are all upset." 

Tony Adams Wife

Tony Adams got married to his current wife in All Saints' Church, Tudeley, the United Kingdom, in 2004. After years full of difficulties, Adams has admitted to having a romantic and purposeful life with his wife. 

Adams stated his regrets that his parents never taught him how to cook. However, thanks to his wife, Poppy Teacher, a great cook, Adams has delicious food every day. He described his feeling and confessed how much he loves his wife.

In an interview, Adams added, " I was attracted to Poppy because she is an educated lady but also very, very emotionally well, and I liked that as an emotional cripple. I have gotten better. I am still a baby. Do I like myself? I do now. When I was drinking, I had self-loathing, low self-esteem." Before getting married to Poppy Teacher, Adams had married Jane Shea, which lasted five years, from 1992 to 1997.

His ex-wife had committed stealing handbags from the guests who participated in parties, which sentenced her to 12 months in prison. At the time, Jane was 47 and had committed 28 crimes to finance her drug use. Jane's ex-boyfriend stated that using drugs cost her about £250,000 a year when he was in a relationship with the addicted boy.

At the time, reviewing the published facts about 

Tony Adams wife

 showed what a hurtful relationship they had that caused Adams to become more and more addicted to alcohol. Although a wide range of news is about Jane Shea, Adams' ex-wife, we have skipped them because all of them are about the crimes she committed.

Tony Adams Instagram

Have you ever visited 

Tony Adams Instagram

, 

? At the time of writing, 146k fans have followed him and 463 posts that he has posted until now. Adam, who experienced various situations in his personal life, has a lot of words to say, which by the platform has shared many of them.

If you visit his page, you will see a series of photos with various topics, including his personal life, family, charity, football, and short videos of his speech at conferences. One of the photos, which catch your eyes at a glance, is a circular image with motivational sentences.

To describe more about the post, Adams has commented that "There it is! Officially an old-timer today. At 5 pm on 16/08/1996, I took my last alcoholic drink, and 25 years of peace and serenity later, I would like to thank all those recovering addicts that freely carried the recovery message to me. Thank God. I surrendered and asked for help. Keep coming back." 

One of the other interesting posts on his page is a photo in which he is standing beside a young boy on the pitch, and both of them are wearing Arsenal jerseys. Adams wrote, "20 years ago today, I lost my mate.

Taken too young but not forgotten. Very grateful to have known him for 20 years, shared so many great times Together, on the pitch and off of it, and said goodbye with a massive hug at the hospital two weeks before he died. The picture was at the 2001 FA cup final, a month after Rocky's death, with his son Ryan. RIP mate."

The topic of many of those photos is from memories he has of his alcohol addiction. One of them is a photo printed on a newspaper front page while the police handcuffed him. He explained, "30 years ago today, I got sent down.

Within weeks of getting my driving license back, I was drinking and driving again. That is the insanity of the illness of addiction! Thank god I surrendered, and I will be celebrating my 25th clean and sober Christmas."

In one another post, he has described more and said, "My come back reserve team match against Reading! 16-02-1991. Thank you again to all the fans, announced 7000 going on 13,000 for turning up to welcome me home. 30 years ago tomorrow, I came out of Chelmsford Prison.

Unfortunately, I still had another five years of research into my addiction to do. I could have spared myself a lot of pain if I had some education regarding my illness in prison-like the @forwardtrust delivers. However, I still might not have been ready.

No regrets as I am eternally grateful that I finally got it when I did." We only could mention some of the posts on @tonyadamsofficial. To see more and get enough about the lifestyle of Tony Adams, we suggest you visit it. 

Tony Adams Net Worth

Almost always, the salary of football players and managers has been among the most viewed topics by the fans, who are curious to know about how luxurious are footballers' lives. As we mentioned earlier, Adams was a brilliant footballer, which after his retirement as a player, he went into football coaching that lasted about 14 years.

Although Adams does not play football anymore and manage any clubs, he has remained a well-known and popular figure in the football world, especially for Arsenal's fans. Interestingly, some authentic online sources have estimated 

Tony Adams net worth

 and announced it $50 million in 2021. 

Tony Adams Honors

The English former footballer left a rich career history full of achievements which prove how brilliant he performed as a football player. Follow the list of 

Tony Adams honors

 to know more about his awards.

Arsenal

• Football League First Division/Premier League: 1988-89, 1990-91, 1997-98, 2001-02

• FA Cup: 1992-93, 1997-98, 2001-02

• Football League Cup: 1986-87, 1992-93

• Football League Centenary Trophy: 1988

• European Cup Winner's Cup: 1993-94

• Runner-up: 1994-95

• FA Charity Shield: 1991 (Shared), 1998

Individual

• PFA Young Player of the Year: 1986–87

• PFA First Division/Premier League Team of the Year: 1986–87, 1993–94, 1995–96, 1996–97

• Team of the Century 1997–2007

• Overall Team of the Century

• Domestic Team of the Decade

• Overall Team of the Decade

• Public choice Fantasy Teams of the 20 Seasons

• Panel choice Fantasy Teams of the 20 Seasons

• English Football Hall of Fame: 2004

• Football League 100 Legends

PFA Team of the Century (1907–2007):

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Premier League 10 Seasons Awards: (1992–93 – 2001–02)

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Premier League 20 Seasons Awards: (1992–93 – 2011–12)

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Short Facts about Tony Adams

On 9 December 2011, FA Community Shields unveiled a statue at Emirates Stadium to honor the successful former footballer and manager and placed it along with

and Herbert Chapman's statues.

During the 1990s, when Adams was between 24 to 34, he drove his car into a wall, which led him to spend eight weeks in prison.

To know more about Tony Adams' life out of football, he stated some of his interest in an interview. Nowadays, he likes eating vanilla cheesecake. However, his favorite food was sticky toffee puddings.

He also described how much he is interested in sweet tastes, which leads him to go to the desserts straightly whenever he looks at menus. Furthermore, several years ago, he enjoyed a glass of wine at 6 pm and then increased its amount to three or four bottles. Then, he decided to replace it with a nice Ginger Beer and often have it in a wine glass.

• As a man who experienced a painful era of alcohol and drug addiction, in September 2000, he founded the Sporting Chance Clinic. The charitable foundation proposes to make therapy, counsel, and support the male and female athletes whose addition to drug, alcohol, and gambling addiction bother them a lot.

Based near Liphook in Hampshire, the clinic follows the twelve-step program philosophy of Alcoholics Anonymous. Professional Footballer's Association and several prominent people, including Kate Hoey, Alex Rae, and Elton John, are the clinic's supporters.

Also, Paul Merson, Adam's former teammate at Arsenal, is one of the other patrons of the institute who is a recovering alcoholic now. Through his Arsenal testimonial game, Adams raised a large sum of about £500,000 for the Sporting Chance Clinic. 

• Adams is also one of the people who support NACOA, a charity that aims to help everybody whose parents' drinking has affected their lives. Indeed, the foundation supports them by providing info and giving pieces of advice.

In addition to helping people who suffer their addiction to alcohol and drugs, Adams is a member and supporter of the charity School-Home Support (SHS). As a patron, he tries to help young people and children whose unfavorable living conditions, including poverty, domestic abuse, housing problems, have not let them educate as well as others. 

• As the last word on the list of facts about Tony Adams, we have mentioned one that refers to his childhood. Tony stated one of his memories with his mother and said, "My mother made me scrambled egg on toast whenever I was ill. My wife is not my mum, as she keeps reminding me, but when I get poor, I still want scrambled eggs done the way Mother did them." 

All in all, in today's article, our team in

unveiled the most notable facts about Tony Adams and tried to prepare a comprehensive but short piece of his life on and off the pitch. Hope you have enjoyed it. 

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