Adebayor Axed After Death Threat

I wonder if the Togolese F.A gave them footballs this time? Because they didn't for the Wrold Cup.

Well it can be only good news for Arsenal. No african nations for him in January, and no tiredness after pointless international friendies and long flights.

I am glad that he scored two goals he has been our best striker this season bar van persie. And he has brought exactly what we need to our team his ability to hold the ball up and skill is immense. If they want to drop him then good cause that gives me one less player to worry about for internationals. But death threats!?!?! thats not right for tryin to show your passion for ure country

The problem is not the money not being paid, it is the fact that the Togolese F.A have been taking the money off of the players and keeping it for themselves. If in your workplace your boss retained 50% of your wages for himself, presumably you would not argue on the basis that 50% of your annual salary could feed an African village? Togo did not have footballs or goalnets for their World Cup training camp. Of course it's ahrder to actually look at what happened and easier to produce another inaccurate wind up post, indicative of the moaning, malcontented and highly annoying tw*t you have become. You are a cancer on this site at the moment, please go away and stop behaving like a spoilt little child.

that why i always keep on argueded my friends that africa ill never win the world cup in our generation becouse of the corruptive leaders we have in every orginasations in that continent. we have most of he best players in the major league in europe. what have we done in the world cup? reach the quater only 2 times some ppl think is good achievment with all those talented players we have. i live in australia and i cant be bother to wake up in the middle of the night to watch any game when the africa nation cup is on i ill rather not miss any arsenal game that is on tv

"look at it from the misguided Togolese fan's perspective." The worst reasoning ever, yes, let's look at it from the ill informned lunatic's perspective. Like the Chelsea fans who sent death threats to Stephen Hunt, did you ever look at it from their perspective? Being unprepared is one thing, being blatantly corrupt is quite another. It was the football team that worked hard to qualify, yet the F.A were stealing their money and refusing to give it back. They even refused to buy the team footballs and goal nets. Surely you can see the merits of extreme industrial action? I wasn't being abusive, I was telling it as it is, you are clearly hell bent on being a wind up merchant. You remind me of a dribbling old man in a home, *****ing the bed and refusing to move to make the nurses lives harder.

I think that he is the best Toglelese footballer that there is. He has picked up Togelese player of the last two years and he was likley to do so again but that could well be jeperdised by this situation. I think that things go way to far when a players life is under threat and this simply is not on! He is the most valuable player in their squad and has alerted many people to their national side so I think that they have made a mistake. Would there be uproar if Wayne Rooney or Lampard were worried about their bonuses??? I very much doubht it! I hope this means that he will be even sharper on his long awaited come back for the gunners!

Sir Harry, being that my best mate is Ghanian, I am quite aware of the political situation in Togo and the subsequent UN investigations and the stabilising, yet still unstable economy since the price of their national resources went down. But if I apply your logic, if someone steals your wallet, you should shrug it off and say, "well I earn £x a year, there are lots of people who earn less than that. I won't be pursuing the case any further." I point you towards Edward Said's essays on a phenomenon known as 'orientalism.' You subconsciously assume fricans to be irrational, bestial and of sub standard intelligence, so you automatically think the Togolese footballer is being greedy and that the African citizen is irrational and resorts to death threats. You appreciate this becuase that is what you expect from them, "ah, that is their culture" you say. The author thinks you have a lot of opening up to do. As for the personal abuse, well, I changed my mind. Us great artists are renowned for having malleable temperaments, since you threw a low brow insult before I even addressed you in the middle of last week, I take it as read that this is how you debate. Frankly, I was in a bad mood yesterday, but today I am feeling buoyant, and you are quite an easy target, I can sharpen my wits on you by easily exposing your ignorance. Uusually, I don't like to mock others intellectually, everyone has equitable talents. But if you put gloves on and smother yourself in vaseline, expect to take some punches. Enoch.

Pathetic personal abuse Little Dutch, what about all the fine rhetoric. I have worked in Lagos and Port Harcourt so have a little understanding of what conditions are like in West Africa. I even have had the opportunity to attend a local football match there with a colleague who has lived in Nigeria for the best part of 25 years - football there is a passion which matches that of the Premiership and also a source of national pride, where the refusal of national icons not to play for the country is taken very serious, in many ways too seriously. Furthermore with African friends from Nigeria, Southern Africa and Egypt, I wouldn't consider any of them in the manner you have described, which suggests to me that it is how you subconciously regard them. I have actually been in conversation with local fans who have called it a disgrace when their players refuse to turn out, and they have made issue of the high wages they earn as a source of additional greviance. Have you worked in West Africa? have you anything but second or third hand experience of being in Africa for more than a 2 week holiday? Your pathetic attempts to portray others as racist where by your tone it is you who are the loathsome individual simply shows you up as the pathetic individual you are. Before you decide to arrogantly lecture others, look to acquire the experience yourself, rather than rely on others opinions or source it from a book - I have had the opportunity to work on 4 continents, 2 sub continents and my running total is currently having worked with companies from over 40 countries so your miserable attempt to lecture me about understanding other cultures hold as much water as your average sieve, you pathetic little boy

The author should consider what has been written on the DumbestXI thread as the author's apparently knockout blow has apparently swung 180 and caught him full on the jaw. the author has clearly been shown up for commenting on something he has no real life experience about attempting to criticise someone who's opinions are based on fact which has been personally experienced but the author is undoubtedly too arrogant to realise this. After all the author has made no further comment having been caught out

I think not Mr Stillman

no place for that