Leave Adebayor alone and stop victimising him. Why­ cannot you do the same to Cristiano Ronaldo. He got­ transferred for far more money. What exactly is this­ about?

Hughes, a nice enough bloke, has undergone a brain and­ imagination transplant on becoming a manager, and now­ claims to know what is in his players' minds,­ Savant, or what ? If we expect honesty from anyone in­ so-called ' sport ' we will be permanently­ disappointed......because they are all living in a­ permanent time bubble called retarded development. I­ say this, sadly, as a sports lover.

Hughes condones thuggery !!!!!

Adebayor did not do well at all especially the Van­ Persie incident. Anyone that claims it was not­ intentional is either telling an obvious lie or he/she­ has not seen the video.

I am a neutral footbal watcher. Adebayor's­ behaviour was disgraceful and a terrible example to our­ impressionable young children and teenagers. The replay­ pictures showed a delay before he planted his boot­ firmly in Van Persie face. There was clear evidence of­ malice of forethought in his behaviour and he should be­ severely punished. It would not be unreasonable for him­ to be charged with assault by the Police, because it­ would send a very clear message to all the other­ anti-social degenerates who masquerade as professional­ footballers in the football league! His further act of­ running the whole length of the pitch to insight the­ Arsenal fans could have caused a riot resulting­ innocent spectators being seriously crushed or killed.­ Adebayor should be reminded of the Hillsborough­ disaster and the terrible events in the Heysel Stadium­ Disaster resulting in the deaths of 39 (and injury of­ some 600 more). All the result of fighting in the­ Stadium. What is even more worrying is that his manager­ (like so many football managers) doesnt have the moral­ courage to publicly condemn such unacceptable­ behaviour. No wonder British Football and football in­ general is in such a chronic state of malaise!!

I find quite hypocritical that video evidence cannot be­ used to reward a player who may have genuinely scored­ but had his goal disallowed for whatever reason. But­ now video evidence is being used to punish players for­ missed offences long after a game has been played and­ decided....rubbish!!!

When Mark Hughes was playing with Man Utd he took his­ fair share of abuse and hard tackles on the field of­ play. But to try and defend Adebayor's stamp on­ Van Persie is obscene, and he should be the first to­ take action against the player. And I dont like Van­ Persie!

Mark Hughes should be managing in Wales.End of story.

Other than you Chidi

Honestly,i see no reason why Adebayor should be ban and­ i hate dat name pple call him.Lets give it to the young­ star,he gave the match all wot it takes well done­ Ade!!!!!.About the contact he had with RVP it was not­ intentional and also abt the goal celebration infront­ of gunners fans,such act can be perform by anyone else­ it has happened in the past,its still in existence so i­ dnt why he shld be criticise.I am an African man the­ White shld stop calling the blacks Monkeys its an­ absurd statement and i will dat advise FIFA shld look­ into dis matter tnx.
Gbenga.

Adebayo deserves no ban. What happend was just a normal­ football accident. NO one should be biased about it.

What Adebayor did was unsportsmanlike, he should­ remember that Arsenal is the club that shaped him for­ better and that football is a friendly game which even­ makes a war stop and enemies become friends for the­ good of the sport. The behaviour is characteristic of­ African football in some quarters and this is not the­ message we would want to send out there now that we are­ hosting the Biggest football mundial in the continent­ in the name of the world cup in SA.

It is shameless,­ mindless and it renders the phrase " professional­ footballers" irrelevant and­ embarrassing.

Emmanuel Adebayor should instead of­ justifying the action, come out and apologise like like­ Drogba did, it is more professional that way, over and­ above that the FA should institute severe action on the­ player for his conduct. This should be taken as a­ lesson to any other player who might have the ambition­ to do the same shameless act in future, remember some­ on the worst human conflict have been caused by­ senseless and mindless acts of provocation, this is one­ of them.

Hughes is a liar. First he claimed that he did not see­ the incident. Now he say there is no malice. A liar is­ laways a liar. No matter how you twist youe words, in­ the end your liar face will show.

i see the sheepshagger is talking out of his fleece­ again.

hughes is a big fattt liar... at no time did Adebayor­ shook or embrace RVP.. nt that RVP wanted him to. but­ he is just trying to make excuse for what happened. it­ was obvious at what he did the ball was long gone and u­ can see the extra force in the step.

some ppl are calling ade MONKEY and is a racist comment­ and also insult to monkeys.asian,white,black,whatever­ he didnt behave like human being he behaved like from­ other planet.

In fact isn't it about time the FA took note of­ almost every other sport and introduced a fourth match­ official, the ref said he didn't see the rake in­ the face the fourth official would have access to­ replay to advise the ref.
Is this the only way to­ assure fair play now?

I am an Arsenal fan and let me say we were soundly­ beaten by the better team on the day, However Ade's­ assault? on RVP leaves a lot to be desired, I remember­ when it was called FOOTBALL not FOOTINTHEFACE, I­ can't see how anyone can say it was accidental if­ so that's like saying Eric Cantona's attack on­ the fan was an accidental jumping over the advertising­ hoardings.
When it's reviewed by all the FA'S­ officials I think Man city can expect to see Ade on a­ rather long vacation for raking rvp's face.
On the­ celebration on scoring, what Ade did was stupid beyond­ stupid,that was like pouring petrol on a fire.His­ actions deserve to be treated as harshly as possible it­ was almost like provoking a riot.
Hughes, you've­ possibly got a good team there but do you have the­ class??

well done city but we'll see you at the­ emirates soon enough

Adebayor deliberately stamped on Van Persie, and ran­ all the way to the Arsenal fans, to celebrate the goal.­ Apart from it possibly causing a riot, it is­ disrespectful, to do that to a team where you spent a­ little more than 3 years in. If he ran all the way,­ with hate to the Arsenal fans, don't you think the­ stamp was intentional? Moreover, Adebayor played little­ in the 08-09 season, compared to the 07-08 season. Van­ Persie was the one who played in his position! It­ can't be any clearer. To me, that is an 8-match­ ban.