I really couldn’t believe my eyes and ears as I flicked on Sky Sports News yesterday and saw Portsmouth assitant manager Tony “Donkey” Adams braying on about some hellish act of injustice that had been perpatrated against his new club by a damnable foreigner from Africa who obviously hadn’t been introcuded to how things worked in this bright new world of premiership football.

It’s not unlike Donkey Adams to come across as a pretentious prick at the best of times so I can slightly overlook that, my disregard for the man goes back many, many years as he symbolises all that is wrong and crooked with professional football and has done for a lot longer than the time Didier Zokora has spent on English shores.

I’ll admit that Zokora did go down rather easily under Pedro Mendes challenge but he wasn’t the first this season and he won’t be the last and to sum it up, he won Spurs a penalty which, when converted, won us a much needed three points. Job done as far as I’m concerned. Every other team does it so why should I condemn our own when they do, at the end of the day I’m a football fan second and a Spurs fan first, my overriding concern for the game falls into a distant runners up position over my need to see Spurs succeed. Hypocrite? No more so than the Donkey Adams or so it seems.

While taking his position upon his high horse (could a Donkey sit upon a high horse? This one can) I was left pondering the reason why Adams wasn’t so quick to comdemn his former Gooner teammates when they had a ridiculous ‘dive’ penalty given, coincidentally against Portsmouth, in their “invincible” season or his high profile English mates Michael Owen, Wayne Rooney and Steven Gerrard who all like a dive almost as much as former Olympic champion Greg Louganis. I smell hypocrisy and yet there’s even more to come.

We all know the Donkey is more likely to be found sitting over a book of sonnets or playing a concerto on a baby grand piano these days but in the not too distant past he was a lot more likely to be found keeping gutters warm all over London and surrounding areas, no doubt covered in piss and looking like the very hobos he now thinks he’s better than because he got himself a “New Word A Day” calendar after he retired.

I’m sorry Tone but round my way we don’t take preaching advice from ex-jailbird pissheads who’ve done time for drink driving and putting the safety of the general public at risk. If the worst thing Didier Zokora does this season is drop the knee under a slight challenge then he’ll do ok for me. There’s a saying that self righteous philosopher Mr Adams should be able to complete for me but it’s escaping my memory at the moment, something about glass houses and stones. Maybe if Donkey can drag himself away from the workd of William Blake he could fill us all in and maybe keep his big mouth shut on any issue that he feels he has the right to stick his nose into in future.

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