Emmanuel Adebayor blasts Tottenham fans:

The out-of-form striker says he's speaking on behalf of the Spurs dressing room when he says players are struggling with the atmosphere at the Lane

Emmanuel Adebayor has launched an explosive attack on Tottenham's fans at White Hart Lane insisting: "We're better off playing away from home."

The Togo striker insisted he was speaking on behalf of the dressing room and also claimed the club's young players are struggling to cope with "being booed" at matches.

Angry supporters vented their fury during Spurs' 2-1 defeat to Stoke yesterday. The north Londoners have now lost three of their last four League games.

After the international break they travel to the KC Stadium to face Hull in their next game.

Adebayor, a late substitute in the Stoke surrender, said: "Will it help playing away from home? To be honest, I think so.

"At least you know I am going to be having the majority of opposition fans booing me rather than our own fans booing me. And I am not just talking about me, I am speaking on behalf of all the players.

"I think it might be better to play away from home at the moment because at least we know beforehand we are guaranteed to be booed because they want their home club to win.


"But when you are playing at home and your own fans start booing you after a few minutes then it is harder.

"Right now, to tell you the truth, I think a lot of players when they put on the shirt and go out on to the pitch are finding it hard in the head.

"Obviously I have been through a lot in life so I am used to it.

"It’s kind of hard when you know the first bad ball you make the fans are going to boo you.

"When you are playing in front of your own crowd you want them to support you. But now it is like going through a sad moment and your family not welcoming you home.

"That’s the worst thing ever because you have nowhere to go. At the moment I don’t know whether we should play at home or whether we should play away.

"Obviously I was on the bench against Stoke and, though I could not see everything as clear as night, I could see that nobody wanted the ball. It’s hard for the players.

"It’s not their fault and it’s not the fans’ fault either because the fans want to see a result, the fans want to see a response and things are not going our way at the moment.

"We just have to fight as a team and as a club to find a solution. The quicker the better.



Adebayor has been vilified in recent weeks as fans have taken out their frustrations over the team's poor form on him.

But Tottenham were humiliated by Stoke on Sunday even before Adebayor's arrival from the bench. The manner of the defeat suggested once again that the vitriol aimed at the ex-Manchester City frontman is simply a smokescreen for far deeper problems.

Adebayor believes one of them is the pressure being heaped on Tottenham's players by their own fans at home games.

He added: "I want some of the players to be confident starting with me.

"Obviously when I am trying my best and making runs and things are not happening and I am not making things happen like I used to, the criticism comes so quickly.

"I think in football too many people forget so quickly what you have done. So instead of booing people, which will make it even worse, I think it is sometimes better to support them and give them what they need to perform on the pitch."



With just two goals in the Premier League so far this season, Adebayor's own performances have come under scrutiny to such an extent that he was dropped for in-form Harry Kane on Sunday.

But Adebayor has defended himself against suggestions that he is lazy. He said: "For 13 years now I’ve been a professional and I’ve had to deal with that stick everywhere I’ve been to.

"If I make a mistake it doesn’t mean I’m lazy. I will always try my best. But the funny thing in football is, when you score two goals everyone is like ‘Wow, he’s back on form and back to his best’.

"But that’s not the point. Even when things aren’t going my way I am still trying the same, running around, wanting the ball, jumping to head it and looking to play my football.

"But now because I have missed a couple of chances, people are like ‘Whoa, he is not trying and shouldn’t be in the first team.’ As a footballer you have to deal with those things, but it does make you laugh.

Shut up and play properly you overpaid mug

I sort of agree with what he is saying. It's only logical and booing and abuse and a general negative, poisonous atmosphere clearly will affect players.

Sue me.

Although, im saying this from a position that I also don't believe Ade's attitude and performance have been of a decent standard either. I'm not absolving the players of blame.

It is no wonder that players are hiding from the ball. I hate it when a player like Eriksen, Lamela and Mason try and attempt a cutting pass that will open a defence that doesnt come off-and then the fans start whinging. It breeds an attitude of hiding from the ball and playing it safe or panicking.

Perhaps the players should be mentally tougher, but we know not having leaders is a weakness in our squad and we have a lot of young players who in the absence of fighters on the pitch would benefit hugely from support from the stands.

Hardly the best spokesperson for the players. Given his laziness when times were better.

Hardly an explosive attack.

He is seeking sympathy when it is not due, though.

Fucking off Ade. Go and get a hug off Twitchy.

This'll go well...

I think he is spot on to be fair.

The players look shit scared playing at home. That's what causes so many miscontrolled balls, misplaced passes, lapses in concentration. Because players are so scared they are going to make a mistake for fear of the crowd getting on their back that they inevitably do. It might not be every player on the pitch but it only takes for 3 or 4 of them to be hesitant for it to effect the team.

I just wish that our idiotic fans would get it through their thick skulls that booing your own teams does not help them improve in any way shape or form, in fact it just compounds the problem.

"For 13 years now I’ve been a professional and I’ve had to deal with that stick everywhere I’ve been to.

Well Ade, should that not tell you its not just Tottenham fans then?

I mean seriously, its not like the Goons or City fans didn't have similar complaints is it.

I do agree with the overall point he's making though. The atmosphere is definitely not helping and its been a problem for sometime now.

To be fair to him he is right. Non of us like the atmosphere at the Lane anymore.

When you get paid £150k a week, and ordinary working people are sacrificing a large chunk of their time and money to watch you turn up and not bother to work your socks off for the a single 90 minute segment of your week, they won't be happy.

Deluded tosser.

'Seeing things as clear as night'. Just about sums up everything he said for me.

Adebayor said:

"I think in football too many people forget so quickly what you have done. So instead of booing people, which will make it even worse, I think it is sometimes better to support them and give them what they need to perform on the pitch."

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It's a good quote.

Do something good and its forgotten as soon as you do something bad. Do something bad and it'll be remembered until you do something good, at which point people will start to resent you for confusing them, whilst finding something else to complain about.

I blame Bobby Davro, who taught the average man and woman to use their hatred as fuel. Only when we switch to renewable smiles can we save this planet. of football.

My football hatred for this specimen cannot be exceeded.

But this tops it up nice.

Just Fuck off dear Ade. You are the cancer.

Take your money and Fuck off.

Give me my team back. People were booing you.

Not Kane. Not rose. Not Townsend. Not mason. Not lamela. Not Erikssen.

Others that played bad still have love in the bank.

You don't.

Fuck off from my club.

For me it is down to the manager to get the fans onside by showing progress. Ade isn't scoring and is playing poorly. He isn't complementing our play because of his lack of positional discipline. Soldado isn't scoring but is playing reasonably well and does complement our style of play. So who does poch play? Ade?
Capoue is playing poorly and not complementing our style of play because he passes the ball too slowly and lacks positional discipline. Stambouli has looked Ok, moves the ball quite quickly and seems to have decent positional sense. Who does poch play? Capoue.
lamela suits our style of play, works his socks off and has been playing generally quite well. Townsend has been utter dogshit for months, contributes nothing, keeps making crucial errors. Who does poch play? Townsend.
kaboul has been nothing short of dreadful. He makes mistakes. Gives the ball away. Has poor positioning. Very on hen is our best defender. Has been playing Ok if not great. Suites our style of play due to his better passing. Who does poch play? Kaboul.

The list goes on and on. Poch is making poor decisions at every turn and imo needs to go.

The atmosphere is crap at the club because of the terrible football we have been served up and the average players playing it for us. It's no wonder there's booing

He has a point. I can't stand the way the boo boys start early on as it does make players afraid to take a chance and want the ball. #

However, it shouldn't stop them from competing, putting in the effort and not letting teams completely run through us with not even the merest sign of a challenge.

And it doesn't take into account that our away performances are hardly stellar either. Our only complete performance was against QPR (which was at home). Sunderland away was decent, City good in patches (but still awful defending and no cutting edge up front) and a good defensive performance at Arsenal, but that's it. Better generally than at WHL but hardly anything to get excited about.

In some respects he has a point... but he is an experienced player. He should lead by example by wanting the ball and putting the effort when he plays. instead he prances around like a little fairy complaining about everything that doesn't go his way.

How about you get the team to stop conceding goals straight from bloody kick offs and get a bit of fight back into the team. At the moment we just seem to give up when we go a goal down, we got lucky against villa! if it wasnt for benteke getting sent off we would have lost that game as well.

We will be lucky with a top 10 finish at this rate

he'e right but he's the wrong player to say it