Football: ‘African duty could hit City’

LONDON: Tottenham striker Emmanuel Adebayor believes that Manchester City’s League title push could be derailed by January’s African Cup of Nations. City will lose Yaya Toure and Kolo Toure to the Ivory Coast squad for the event while Spurs will be unaffected with Adebayor’s Togo banned from taking part. “City have a great team, a great spirit and at the moment they are playing good football, but if they got a couple of injuries I think it would be very difficult for them,” said Adebayor.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 27^th, 2011.