Tony Adams

Founder of supporter of AA, co-author of Addicted and Sober. Oh, and spent a bit of time at the Glorious Arsenal.

[Tony Adams @TonyAdams]

Ken would call me every December to wish my family and I a happy Christmas . What a class act he was - the epitomisation of all that Arsenal stands for: Victory Through Togetherness.

[Tony Adams @TonyAdams]

In a Father’s Day special podcast, Myself and @Ollyadamsss talk life after alcoholism on the back of my new book 1996❤️

You can listen here: https://t.co/Zf8ATejMfm

[Tony Adams @TonyAdams]

Champions. The Arsenal❤️🤍🏆

[Tony Adams @TonyAdams]

Back where we belong

[Tony Adams @TonyAdams]

Heartbreaking 💔

[Tony Adams @TonyAdams]

Looking forward to meeting some of you guys today🙏❤️

[Floodlit Dreams @FDpublishing]

We've been thrilled by the early reaction to #1996book by @TonyAdams. Come and meet Tony tomorrow - Tuesday 14 April at 12.30 - at @CabotPlaceBooks, Waterstones Canary Wharf where Tony will be signing copies of the book. Full details below:

https://t.co/hsMZh0MLfG

[Floodlit Dreams @FDpublishing]

We've been thrilled by the early reaction to #1996book by @TonyAdams. Come and meet Tony tomorrow - Tuesday 14 April at 12.30 - at @CabotPlaceBooks, Waterstones Canary Wharf where Tony will be signing copies of the book. Full details below:

https://t.co/hsMZh0MLfG

[Ian Ridley 💙 @IanRidley1]

Thank you to everyone who's bought #1996book over the last 24 hours ahead of full launch tomorrow. Very pleasing. It really is another triumph of candour and hope from @TonyAdams. No 1 bestseller in some football categories and Hot New Release, no less.
https://t.co/9ewTzR3lRv

[Tony Adams @TonyAdams]

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[Ian Ridley 💙 @IanRidley1]

Very proud of #1996book. Surprised in writing it with @TonyAdams how much more he had, and wanted, to say re Euro '96 and year he lost his wife and kids, lost football and regained it, along with his self-respect. Paperback out next week. Special signed hardbacks on link below.

[Floodlit Dreams @FDpublishing]

With just 7 days until publication day of #1996book by @TonyAdams, we had a great signing session with Tony, all of us delighted to lay hands on this amazing book. You can buy the limited hardback edition signed by him exclusively from our website: https://t.co/LyiKkt20cK

[Tony Adams @TonyAdams]

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[Ian Ridley 💙 @IanRidley1]

The special signed limited edition hardback copies of #1996book, wot I rote with the legend himself @TonyAdams, are here. And they look gorgeous. Exclusive to @FDpublishing website. Buy here, and they'll be with you ahead of April 14 publication date.
https://t.co/7HKVd7pvJW

[Ian Ridley 💙 @IanRidley1]

They've arrived! @TonyAdams new #1996Book that we've worked on together. Signed hardback limited editions exclusive to the @FDpublishing available on the link below. Go get 'em ahead of publication on 14 April.

[Floodlit Dreams @FDpublishing]

The limited edition hardback of #1996book by @TonyAdams is here, now signed by Tony! This special edition is exclusive to our website, and we'll be sending out pre-orders by the end of next week, ahead of official publication on 14 April.

https://t.co/LyiKkt20cK

[Tony Adams @TonyAdams]

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[Floodlit Dreams @FDpublishing]

It's #WorldBookDay2026 and we've had word that hard copies of #1996Book by @TonyAdams will be arriving in around 10 days. We have beautiful exclusive signed limited edition hardbacks available for boots to be filled here...
https://t.co/LyiKkt20cK

[Floodlit Dreams @FDpublishing]

#1996book by @TonyAdams will be published in April. As well as the signed limited edition hardback available for pre-order from the #FloodlitDreams, pre-order paperbacks are available from @Waterstones
https://t.co/3gfx4SjkuI

[Floodlit Dreams @FDpublishing]

📢Today we announce a very special book: ‘1996’ by @TonyAdams. England captain at #Euro96, his life collapsed off-pitch and he faced the fight of his life to get help and to heal.

Published April, pre-order a limited edition signed hardback at https://t.co/LyiKkt2y2i

[Tony Adams @TonyAdams]

As the new Chair of the @ForwardTrust I have decided, against all medical and friendly wisdom, to take on the huge challenge of running the London Marathon this coming April.

Link to donate: https://t.co/SUduYRZd9Y ❤️

[Tony Adams @TonyAdams]

I’m one of the lucky ones - a conversation changed my life from one of anguish and fear and isolation to joy, courage and connection. Addiction wants you dead. Please reach out❤️

@ForwardTrust

https://t.co/RdB0ptBzA0

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

On the afternoon of August 16 1996, Tony Adams reached rock bottom.

Arsenal would start their Premier League season the next day and Adams, injured, was sitting alone with a pint of Guinness at a social club — soiled jeans, dishevelled, desolate — when he broke down in tears.

He walked out of the pub, picked up fish and chips to eat on the way home, got back to his empty house, crawled into bed and cried himself to sleep, shivering, shaking and sweating as he did so.

Three days later he found the courage to walk into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in Fulham and say, “My name is Tony … and I’m an alcoholic”.

“Was I trying to drink myself to death? Looking back, I think I was trying to. I didn’t want to drink more, but I was still getting pissed. I couldn’t do life. Everything had stopped working for me. Sex had stopped working, football had stopped working. At 29 I didn’t want to be on the planet anymore.”

From there began the long battle— painful and immensely challenging — that helped Adams, the formidable captain of Arsenal and England, find what he was born to do.

He speaks to @OliverKay 25 years on from founding the charity athletes past and present say has changed and saved their lives.

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