He movingly explains the struggles he's faced to stay sober for twenty years and why he set up Sporting Chance, the charity which provides treatment and support for sports stars suffering from addictions. Always a great thinker on the game, Adams moved into coaching and management on retirement, playing a key role in Portsmouth's famous FA Cup triumph in 2008, and taking on new challenges in the Netherlands, Azerbaijan, China and now Spain to broaden his perspective. He discusses the impact that Arsene Wenger had when he arrived at Arsenal in 1996, and how the manager's new methods helped extend his career and brought new success to the club. Now, in that book's stunning successor Sober, Adams reveals what happened next. But, for much of that time, he was also drinking heavily and eventually admitted in his book Addicted that he was an alcoholic.

He won league titles in three separate decades, and after the Gunners moved to their new stadium at the Emirates, it was fitting that a statue of him was erected outside to celebrate his extraordinary career. Tony Adams was a charismatic figure on the football field, a true leader for Arsenal and England. Unflinchingly brave.' Sunday Mirrorīeing Addicted was only half the story, now comes the stunning new autobiography from Tony Adams, now appearing on Strictly Come Dancing. 'A searingly honest account of the Arsenal legend's quest to recover from alcoholism.

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