Customer Reviews
Fabtastic - By: Love Books, 09 Oct 2007 
I love autobiographies & this is as good as any. The most important thing for me is that an autobiography is revealing. This is life as a footballer warts & all.
Adams lunges forward and turns the corner - By: Jay, 24 Feb 2007 
I've always been a Tottenham fan & you can probably understand that i was a bit skeptical using up my quality timein reading the autobiography of an Arsenal player.How I was wrong..very wrong. I always admired Tony Adams mastery amongst the famous Arsenal Back Four (Adams, Winterburn, Dixon, Keown. I never liked the Donkey chants even those by the Spurs fans because he a vision which even the legendary Gary Mabbutt didn't have. His description of his failings & how he adapted his style of play as per George Graham's edict was very interesting.
His candid description of his fall into alcoholism is the best part of the book & like his footballing attitude, he had the guts to move forward.
It's good to laud a player who plays for your favourite team but its better when you respect a player from the other side. That said, Tony Adams fallsin this category.
Don't Call Him Donkey - By: zissou, 12 Jan 2007 'Addicted' is a thoroughly enjoyable read, Tony Adams delivers one of the most engaging & brutally honest autobiographiesin print. In many autobiographies, particularly those of footballers, the subjects are often at pains to portray themselvesin a good light, skirt over indefendable controversies & pass the blame for their failings, this is not the case with 'Addicted'. Charting his descent into alcoholism, detailing his beliefs & thought processes of the time, with somewhat staggering honesty. The book really allows the reader a sense of the man, thenin his darkest days, & also of the recovering athlete re-enagaing with his first love. Some readers may feel there to be too much space & detail afforded to match descriptions & routine footballing information, however this serves to highlight the incredible acheivements & longevity of his career whilst all the while abusing his body to extreme levels. 'Addicted' is essential reading for football fans, &in fact anyone as it encourages self evaluation through its brutal honesty whilst charting the career of one of Englands finest defenders, which also consequently renders the subject, former England captain Tony Adams both intriguing & endearing.
'Addicted' reaches the parts others can't reach! - By: S. Knight, 09 Jan 2007 A truly honest account of the career of Tony Adams including his infamous battle with the booze.
Adams talks openly about his addiction to alcohol & the effects it has had on his life & as such the book is just as much an insight into his off field problems as much as his footballing career.
A great read but it is a pity his story stopped after the 1998 World Cup Finalsin France as it would have been interesting to readin more detail of his time under Arsene Wenger at Arsenal & to read about his brief managerial spell at Wycombe.Maybe an updated version will appearin the future?
For that reason i only give this book 4 stars rather than 5.
Very Good, but some failings... - By: Pirate Pete, 08 Jan 2007 All that has been writtenin terms of the honesty & revelations are true, & Adams must be commended for the transparency shown here - if your going to do a book, do it right (It annoys me when i see guys like Wayne Rooney & Michael Owen barelyin their 20's bringing out Books of their 'life'!!).
My only criticism is that Adams seems to be very arrogant, & I wonder how much of the book was written directly by him, & how much by his co-writer. To me, he came across quite big headed on many occasions - I would recommend the book, but I have to admit i believe the PAUL MCGRATH book, whilst strikingly similarin content, was a much better read, & a better written book.
