The Red Card

A look at the lower depths of global soccer: fights, riots, sex scandals, hooliganism, match-fixing, diving, bad haircuts, ronaldo's transvestite prostitutes, and other associated tomfoolery...

Adebayor is a waste of space

seriously, this guy is such an asshole. he refused to play, for his country, because the federation president was not going to be on the plane with the team and he figured that must mean there was some sort of conspiracy to shoot down the plane or something. the reason the president was not flying with the squad: his mother’s funeral.

Togo captain Emmanuel Adebayor has refused to fly to Zambia for Wednesday’s key 2010 World Cup and Africa Cup of Nations qualifier.

The Arsenal striker’s decision came after a row with the players demanding that the president of the Togo Football Federation (TFF) travel with them.

But the TFF said Tata Avlessi Adaglo would not fly as he was preparing for the burial of his mother.

The rest of the team accepted this, but Adebayor remained in Lome.

and of course togo then lost the game.