{"id":25727,"date":"2013-02-11T23:51:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T23:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/02\/spurs-hired-plane-for-adebayor\/"},"modified":"2013-02-11T23:51:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T23:51:08","slug":"spurs-hired-plane-for-adebayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/02\/11\/spurs-hired-plane-for-adebayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs hired plane  for Adebayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"story-featured-image c4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"331\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2013\/02\/f6ebEmmanuel-Adebayor.jpg\" class=\"attachment-bigstoryimage\" alt=\"Emmanuel Adebayor\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"featured-image-caption\"><small><em>| credits:<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Tottenham boss Andre Villas-Boas has revealed that the club hired a plane in order to ensure that Emmanuel Adebayor returned from the Africa Cup of\u00a0 Nations in time for Saturday\u2019s match against Newcastle.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goal.com<\/em> revealed Villas-Boas\u2019 unhappiness with the Togo forward on Saturday morning, after he returned to England too late to train with Spurs before the match at White Hart Lane.<\/p>\n<p>Adebayor had been expected to land back in London in time to join up with the squad\u2019s session on Thursday but did not arrive until Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Clint Dempsey was preferred as the lone striker but Adebayor made his first Tottenham appearance since January 12 as a second-half substitute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes (we sent a plane to get him),\u201d Villas-Boas told reporters. \u201cHe helped the team get the result so it is good to get him back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"display-counter\" data-source=\"http:\/\/www.punchng.com\/wp-content\/themes\/punch\/lib\/counter.php?postid=90930&amp;server=http:\/\/www.punchng.com\/\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| credits: Tottenham boss Andre Villas-Boas has revealed that the club hired a plane in order to ensure that Emmanuel Adebayor returned from the Africa Cup of\u00a0 Nations in time for Saturday\u2019s match against Newcastle. Goal.com revealed Villas-Boas\u2019 unhappiness with the Togo forward on Saturday morning, after he returned to England too late to train with Spurs before the match at White Hart Lane&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}