Why football softies like Arsenal's Emmanuel Adebayor are such a pain

I agree with you about players being wimps but Adebayor is not the main culprit. Other players act like they've been shot the way they cry into the ground. It's embarassing... they need to be more manly!

So Hayley, this 5 minute ruling, don't you think this will cause players to deliberately injure someone as they know the player that they have injured will not be allowed back on for 5 minutes?? Stick to what you know please.....

If Adebayor was not embaressing what was? He was like a big girls blouse

Your time would have been better spent putting the roast on, love.

cant really compare a rugby injury to football... rugby injuries probably dont affect the performance of a player like a knock in football would?? however agreed otherwise... getting fed up of seeing GREAT players go to ground... everyone is slowly becoming more guilty of it.

The reason men don't respect women at football is evident from this very article.Of all the inquests that could be held over yesterdays game this has to be way way down the list.Perhaps the female contributor might go to night school to learn a bit about football and then,perhaps,contribute something relevant to a proper analysis of the game. Until then.keep baking the cakes and doing the ironing.

I think you mean Eboue - he IS an embarrassment, it's Adebayor's first touch I'm more worried about.....

are u sure its adebayor and not eboue that ur talkin about?

The fact that you didn't get the right player is bad enough, but the fact that someone commented on it and also couldn't get the player right is even worse.

Fabrestuta only hayley knows who this player is...i just asked a question because i think she might be talkin about eboue and not ade

You called Adebayor embarrassing, when everyone who watched the game knew it was Eboue who made a show of himself.

Hello Hayley, Sorry but i think you missed something. In football you are not supposed to go for the man, but you are supposed to go for the ball. In Rugby you go for the ball and the man, there is a difference. In football we have got a lot of bad coahing going on like if 'you miss the ball get the man', because of some of these we have seen good players careers put at risk of being ended prematurely like Abou Diaby being laid off for nine months (Sunderland vs Arsenal), Hleb nearly having his parts (where only a lady dares to touch) crushed, Reyes running back to spain, Cech wearing a head gear, Terry wearing a mask. Obviously some of the challenges cannot be prevented, but i think that players should be encouraged to play the ball, not the man as you seem to be proposing.

I agree wholeheartedly with what Hayley says about players going to the ground if someone breathes too heavily in their direction - it´s bloody ridiculous at times!

The diving and feigning is one of the very worst aspects of the modern game (along with Craig gobshite Bellamy). So Hayley raises a valid point. Anyone cussing her would be better off learning to cook their own roasts as they obviously don't care about the state of the game.

Castrate the blighters I say, without anasetic, I may add, then they'll know real pain, I blame all of these bloody Carlos Kickaball Johnnies What, kick 'em out, My mate Blatter knows the answer...then where will Arsenal and all of the others be.what?

it's been a while. you raise a valid point about contact in the game although i think that you loose your way a little and fail to look at the issue in the grander scheme of things(uefa seemingly attempting to make football a totaly non-contact sport through strict refereeing and the cultural influence that that has had on players who come from other european leagues to these shores). i won't go on but will add that i do not hold you and your husband's(who i now see is an article writer, interesting) behaviour in your last article against you, the public manner in which your behaviour descended so foolishly was, i'm sure, humiliating and punishment enough. anyway, best of luck

If you're gonna talk about diving, you should first alk about Robben, Drogba, Christiano Ronaldo and to some extent Steven Gerrard before you smear Adebayor's name.

Before you slag off Eboue, take a look at the slow-mo of the dirty sc*use Carragher elbowing him in the face. Liver-pooh were busy surreptitiously fouling all the match. So glad the growth Crouch didn't succeed at the long ball tactics this time.

I read in the paper that the team who fouled their opponent the most last weekend was Liverpool. Thats not countint Carragher's elbow on Eboue that caused you to write this article. Maybe instead of sending the injured tothe bench for 5 mins, why not send the offender? Everyone who fouls gets 2 mins in the sin bin and every yellow card 10 mins. How about that? That way, no one will foul and every injury will be genuine.

Beeing from Sweden and having played both football and icehockey its a known fact that football players actually get injured more often than icehockeyplayers. There is also more injuries in football than it is in American football. How the statistics is in rugby compared to football i dont know but i think that they have higher injury rate in Aussie rules than in football. The reason why football players often gets injuries are mainly two as I can see. 1. The have very little protection, no armour that is. 2. The have to train so that they can run both fast and for a long distance. This gives less muscle mass and renders the players more prone to injuries. The premier leage is the best leage in the world to watch because there is so few people laying around on the grass. If you compare with Seria A for instance. Every team has a barber who runs out to fix the hair on the players when they bite the grass and they do that very often. Not to mension south american football and Spanish. The most fysi

just stick 2 watching rugby mate, u don't don't have a rat ass's clue on wat ur on about mate.

[quote]quiet sunday then?[/quote] Not me Hayley. Sportingo trying to get this guy off the site. He is using other people's names.

There are injuries in football and you know that when Terry is down then he IS hurt, when Essien is down he IS hurt, when Carrager is down he IS hurt and thei list goes on. Unfortunately the other list is longer. When regular guys play for fun, nobody roles arounf pretending to be hurt and stats running like nothing happened 30 sec later. The guys who did that were not invited next time. This shit is the same bullshit as diving, SG's only flaw. The guys who who don´t see this are best kept infront of the TV, watching Ophra. Heyley, you can watch the EPL.

Im an ARSENAL fan and I think adebayor isnt that bad but my God he has terrible control. Eboue embarrases arsenal with his oscar winning performances of embarrasment

[quote]So Hayley, this 5 minute ruling, don't you think this will cause players to deliberately injure someone as they know the player that they have injured will not be allowed back on for 5 minutes?? Stick to what you know please.....[/quote] Don't you think we already have a rule that protects players getting fouled deliberately? It's called yellow cards and red cards. Stick to what you know...or maybe just don't comment at all.