Tony Adams is sitting at Wembley on Wednesday evening, preparing to meet hundreds of Arsenal fans, and contemplating the two great love affairs of his life. “I got very lucky with Arsenal Football Club and with the second woman I married [Poppy Teacher], bless her,” he reflects.

“The first one [Jane Shea] is doing all right, a couple of years clean and sober, working a good programme, thank the Lord, and back in my children’s life. I was attracted to Poppy because she’s an educated lady but also very, very emotionally well, and I really liked that as an emotional cripple. I’ve got better, I’m still a baby. Do I like me? I do now. When I was drinking, I had self-loathing, low self-esteem. I