TonyAgana
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Anyone seen this?
"This month our regular columnist Peter Ndlovu recalls an unsavoury
incident from the African Cup of Nations:
Things have been quiet this month so when I sat down to write this
article my mind went blank. Although the following tale has very little
to do with the game of football, fans will still find it quite
entertaining. It is from the 2006 African Nations Cup in Egypt. We had
just played our final group game, ending on a high by beating a strong
Ghana side but still crashing out of the tournament. At the hotel that
night we decided to have a few drinks and toast to our victory. I had
invited my friend Tony Yeboah along (fans of English football will
remember him from his highly successful period with Leeds United) as he
had been watching the match.
The lads started giving Tony a lot of stick for his country's loss,
especially our head coach Charles Mhlauri. Tony was taking it quite
gracefully but, as a proud Ghanaian, I could sense his patience was
wearing thin. Nevertheless, the drinks kept flowing and so did the
jokes. It came to the end of the night and some of the lads had
disappeared to bed, most notably our coach and Tony. Now during the
whole tournament Charles had personally entered the hotel rooms of our
most lazy players (Benjani was the worst) and pulled them out of bed in
the morning to get ready for training so myself and a couple of the
other lads decided to repeat the routine on him.
We got the keys from reception and seven of us bundled into his hotel
room at 4 a.m. To our horror it was not Charles who we found in bed, it
was Tony Yeboah. The worst part was that he was having sex with Charles'
wife! I quickly rounded the boys up and ushered them out of the room,
frantically hoping to keep a lid on the situation. After all, it was I
who invited Tony to the party! We found Charles in one of the hotel
bathrooms. He had had far too much to drink and crashed out. The next
morning, at breakfast, I quizzed Tony about what happened and he
delivered a line which I will remember all my life: "When a man insults
my country I insult him, by taking his woman"
Charles did eventually find out about the incident and I think he
separated from his wife for a period. The last I heard though was that
they are back together and he's now coaching in the USA."
"This month our regular columnist Peter Ndlovu recalls an unsavoury
incident from the African Cup of Nations:
Things have been quiet this month so when I sat down to write this
article my mind went blank. Although the following tale has very little
to do with the game of football, fans will still find it quite
entertaining. It is from the 2006 African Nations Cup in Egypt. We had
just played our final group game, ending on a high by beating a strong
Ghana side but still crashing out of the tournament. At the hotel that
night we decided to have a few drinks and toast to our victory. I had
invited my friend Tony Yeboah along (fans of English football will
remember him from his highly successful period with Leeds United) as he
had been watching the match.
The lads started giving Tony a lot of stick for his country's loss,
especially our head coach Charles Mhlauri. Tony was taking it quite
gracefully but, as a proud Ghanaian, I could sense his patience was
wearing thin. Nevertheless, the drinks kept flowing and so did the
jokes. It came to the end of the night and some of the lads had
disappeared to bed, most notably our coach and Tony. Now during the
whole tournament Charles had personally entered the hotel rooms of our
most lazy players (Benjani was the worst) and pulled them out of bed in
the morning to get ready for training so myself and a couple of the
other lads decided to repeat the routine on him.
We got the keys from reception and seven of us bundled into his hotel
room at 4 a.m. To our horror it was not Charles who we found in bed, it
was Tony Yeboah. The worst part was that he was having sex with Charles'
wife! I quickly rounded the boys up and ushered them out of the room,
frantically hoping to keep a lid on the situation. After all, it was I
who invited Tony to the party! We found Charles in one of the hotel
bathrooms. He had had far too much to drink and crashed out. The next
morning, at breakfast, I quizzed Tony about what happened and he
delivered a line which I will remember all my life: "When a man insults
my country I insult him, by taking his woman"
Charles did eventually find out about the incident and I think he
separated from his wife for a period. The last I heard though was that
they are back together and he's now coaching in the USA."
