His strikes have prompted savage feedback from the Strictly Come Dancing judges, together with some very low marks.
However regardless of being on the backside of the leaderboard most weeks, Tony Adams is getting extra votes from the general public than another contestant, prompting panic amongst BBC bosses that he would possibly win the dance competitors.
And right now, The Mail on Sunday can reveal the key behind the previous footballer’s success – a 100,000-strong Arsenal followers’ discussion board which is instructing its members to make use of their three votes every week to maintain him within the contest.
The group, named She Wore A Yellow Ribbon – The Arsenal, have organised a marketing campaign throughout their social media platforms, together with Fb and Twitter.
They are saying that Adams, 56, may simply beat final yr’s winners, Rose Ayling-Ellis and Giovanni Pernice who picked up 55,000 votes, triumphing over same-sex couple John Waite and Johannes Radebe.
However regardless of being on the backside of the leaderboard most weeks, Tony Adams is getting extra votes from the general public than another contestant, prompting panic amongst BBC bosses that he would possibly win the dance competitors
And right now, The Mail on Sunday can reveal the key behind the previous footballer’s success – a 100,000-strong Arsenal followers’ discussion board which is instructing its members to make use of their three votes every week to maintain him within the contest
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The group is called after a tune that grew to become widespread with followers between 1978 and 1980 when Arsenal wore yellow in three back-to-back FA Cup Finals, profitable certainly one of them.
An organiser of the campaign, calling himself Our Captain Wants You, informed the MoS: ‘Tony is our captain and our idol, and he wants us now, so we’re asking all of our members to obtain their votes and use all three to get him to the ultimate, and win. We do not normally trouble with exhibits like Strictly however we wish Tony to win.’ The group has labored out that if Adams will get the backing of only a third of their following, the previous England captain will choose up the glitterball.
Writing on Fb, organisers clarify that the judges’ scores are added to the viewers’ votes. It signifies that even when a dancer will get low factors within the studio, sufficient viewers votes will hold them in.
The marketing campaign will immediate some nervousness amongst BBC bosses. They worry that Adams will convey them one other state of affairs reminiscent of when Ann Widdecombe and John Sergeant stayed within the competitors as a result of the general public adored them, despite the fact that their dancing gained little applause from the judges
The marketing campaign will immediate some nervousness amongst BBC bosses. They worry that Adams will convey them one other state of affairs reminiscent of when Ann Widdecombe and John Sergeant stayed within the competitors as a result of the general public adored them, despite the fact that their dancing gained little applause from the judges.
Final Saturday Adams and his skilled accomplice Katya Jones have been criticised by the judges, notably Craig Revel Horwood, for his or her dance to the Grandstand theme tune to have a good time 100 years of the BBC. They scored simply 17 out of 40 however escaped the dance-off. Final night time, for the Halloween episode, the previous England defender and Ms Jones danced the quickstep to The Satan Went Down To Georgia by The Charlie Daniels Band.
Amazingly, Adams and his accomplice scored 31 factors – their highest rating but.
Choose Anton du Beke described Adams as ‘unrecognisable’ from earlier weeks – so maybe there is no want for that Arsenal military in spite of everything.