Browsing: Emmanuel Adebayor

As the end of 2016 approached, Palace were mentioned as possible challenges for a top-four place this season. An excellent first half of the campaign rightly led to widespread praise, but their form has tailed off to such an extent that they are actually now just two places outside of the bottom three

Palace are next in BPL action when they host of AFC Bournemouth on February 2 and Alan Pardew, the Palace manager, will hope Adebayor can revive the fortunes of a team who are winless in their past six matches, losing the last four, while scoring only one goal

He bought a $1.2 million house in Ghana, he says, and let his sister Yabo and half-brother Daniel stay in it. But when he later went to visit the house, he found that Yabo had kicked Daniel out and was renting the house. When he tried talking with her about it, both she and eventually his mother yelled at him. He also accused his brother Rotimi, who he says he helped get into a soccer academy in France, of stealing the cellphones of 21 of his 27 teammates.

The player told Accra, Ghana-based radio station, Peace FM, on Thursday when he was asked about his relationship with his family: “How can I talk to a mother who together with my sisters have been plotting juju against me?

Tim Sherwood’s side moved two points clear of Everton into fifth place and within three points of fourth-placed Liverpool, thanks to Adebayor’s second half strike at White Hart Lane