{"id":22296,"date":"2011-12-27T15:50:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T15:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/michael-essien-taking-up-to-darts\/"},"modified":"2011-12-27T15:50:49","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T15:50:49","slug":"michael-essien-taking-up-to-darts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/27\/michael-essien-taking-up-to-darts\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Essien Taking Up To Darts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"10\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/michael-essien-taking-up-to-darts\/essien-dart\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-103293\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Michael Essien \" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/73c2bdcb8bcf23e862bfb78fa67aa95946dc.124.79.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chelsea footballer Michael Essien attends during day two of the 2012 Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship at Alexandra Palace on December 16, 2011 in London, England.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Chelsea footballer Michael Essien is the star attraction at the World Darts Championships at Alexandra Palace in England.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Michael enjoyed the match-up from the stands seated in a sharp charcoal suit, which featured a blazer with black lapels; he layered over a vest and button-up combination.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"10\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/michael-essien-taking-up-to-darts\/essien-dart-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-103294\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Michael Essien\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanasoccernet.mobi\/wp-content\/plugins\/wordpress-mobile-pack\/plugins\/wpmp_transcoder\/c\/6b577da28beba92d854d2b92df6dc978.87.124.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chelsea footballer Michael Essien attends during day two of the 2012 Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship at Alexandra Palace on December 16, 2011 in London, England.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Michael complimented his attire with a touch of preppy in a pair of fashionable frames.<\/p>\n<p>Sweet fit, the blazer is my favorite piece, I would wear it formally with slacks or slip on some hard denims.<\/p>\n<p>Out for the Premier League season so far \u2013 the Chelsea enforcer ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament and meniscus during pre-season training \u2013 Essien would not be first player to stagger into the darts arena.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"10\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/michael-essien-taking-up-to-darts\/essien-dart-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-103295\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Michael Essien\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanasoccernet.mobi\/wp-content\/plugins\/wordpress-mobile-pack\/plugins\/wpmp_transcoder\/c\/44e1ee95a434a7b2baad11299bec9d31.124.95.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chelsea footballer Michael Essien attends during day two of the 2012 Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship at Alexandra Palace on December 16, 2011 in London, England.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Many footballers use downtime to go on Twitter and share their thoughts on washing up and breakfast as a way of getting into the media on their own terms. Better, perhaps, they retrain for the days after the match, when the flesh widens but the competitive streak remains.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"10\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/michael-essien-taking-up-to-darts\/essien-dart-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-103296\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Michael Essien \" src=\"http:\/\/ghanasoccernet.mobi\/wp-content\/plugins\/wordpress-mobile-pack\/plugins\/wpmp_transcoder\/c\/076da5156744f3ccd81b3edc5b402c79.124.85.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chelsea footballer Michael Essien attends during day two of the 2012 Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship at Alexandra Palace on December 16, 2011 in London, England.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Darts is the future. 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