Tony Adams Hired to Manage Again

By: Martin | May 11th, 2010

Honestly, though, I’m not sure if this is more cause for celebration, laughter, or tears.

Tony Adams has been hired to manage . . . (drum roll, please) Gabala FC. Wait, what?

Who in the hell, you may ask, are Gabala FC? Apparently they are in the Azerbaijan Premier League. Where they currently sit 6th in the table.

Adams has signed a 3-year contract to manage the side, and said that his goal is to win the league during that time.

It sounds like a bit of a joke, doesn’t it? If you had substituted “Roy Keane” for Tony Adams I’d definitely be laughing. And despite his rough spells at both Wycombe and Portsmouth, I find it hard to believe that he couldn’t get a managerial position somewhere in England or Scotland.

But he’s still “Mr. Arsenal,” one of the club’s all-time greats, and I think in doing this he’s clearly showing an ongoing passion for the game. I certainly wish him nothing but well. But it seems like it’s a long road back to England from Azerbaijan.

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Portsmouth hvac

Great post!
abbas

There are not 6, but 12 teams in Azerbaijan Premiem League (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.... And in football Azerbaijan has more outstanding history than Japan. Gabala FC at 6th position due to playoff system, but it gained more scores than all other teams and it obviously will be amog first 3 next year and going to euro league, so Tony has a chance to make a history.
Casimir

But J league is miles ahead of Azerbaijan. J League would probably fit in with the third tier of european leagues. Azer... thats just in the middle of nowhere. I guess we all gotta start somewhere??
vespo

Arsene went from Monaco to the J league and then arsenal. I realize Azerbaijan is not Japan, but still, this might not be all bad.
Casimir

Wow. Very surprising. You'd think he'd at least get a job in the lower tiers of a western or central european team.
Gigi

vant = cant
Gigi

in my book Tony vant do no wrong, so best of lucks in the 5 team league :)
Peevish

Maybe he's trying to do a Steve McClaren?
Jason Gunners Smith

dude i am such a fan of your blogs....i check my blk berry every morning to see what new stuff u talking about....lets hope our mets dont fade as bad as our gunners did
Homey

Marcus,
Well then hopefully he can keep them from getting relegated to the Azerbaijan Championship division. :-|
Marcus

Gabala FC currently sit 6th in a league of... 6 teams.

What more is there to say?
Brenton

I was also going to bring up Scolari.
Sairax

They're probably giving him a massive paycheck a la Scolari coaching in Uzbekistan