Welcome to a special Manchester City Bollox, bringing you the top stories from the world of City, wags and justice!Later on we view the lovely Maria Mazza, but first lets have a brief resume of the Adebayor story and the possible outcome duly reported by the Beeb ... Adebayor signed for Manchester City from Arsenal for £25m in July
Manchester City star Emmanuel Adebayor will learn his fate over a charge of improper conduct at a Football Association hearing on Thursday.
Adebayor, 25, was charged following his controversial goal celebration in the game against Arsenal on 12 September.
The case will be heard by an FA panel at an undisclosed time and location.
City boss Mark Hughes hopes Adebayor can escape a ban and said: "We will be putting our views across and we are hopeful of a positive result."
The Togo striker has just served a three-match suspension for violent conduct in a separate incident in the game against the Gunners and Hughes is hopeful he will be available to face Aston Villa on Monday.
City will use the evidence of Gary Neville's goal celebration against them the week after the Arsenal game, which did not result in a charge against the Manchester Unetid defender, as evidence to back up Adebayor's claim he did nothing wrong.
"We hope Manu won't get any more matches," added Hughes. "We don't think he should."
Adebayor, who joined City from Arsenal during the summer for a fee believed to be in the region of £25m, was charged after sprinting the length of the pitch to celebrate in front of Gunners fans after scoring during the match at Eastlands, which City won 4-2.
His reaction contrasts sharply with that of City team-mate Carlos Tevez, who played down his celebrations after scoring twice in Monday's 3-1 home win over former club West Ham.
After scoring the first of his two goals, the Argentine striker raised an almost apologetic hand of acknowledgement before being besieged by ecstatic team-mates.
After the game, Hammers boss Gianfranco Zola praised Tevez's professionalism.
Celebration was outpouring of emotion - Hughes
"Great players like him are true gentlemen," said Zola. "Our supporters appreciate him for what he did for the club and his contribution for City was outstanding."
Adebayor missed the game against West Ham because of his ban for violent conduct, imposed after he was found guilty of stamping on former team-mate Robin van Persie, a challenge which left the Dutchman needing treatment on a cut to his face.
But Hughes does not think Adebayor should receive further punishment for his goal celebration, despite accusations that it incited Arsenal fans.
After the match it emerged that a steward needed hospital treatment after being hit by a flying object as several visiting supporters vented their fury towards their former striker, who was booked by referee Mark Clattenburg for his actions.
Adebayor says sorry for goal celebration
"The circumstances of the game and amount of criticism and vitriol he had to take wasn't nice," said Hughes.
"It was difficult for him - it was the first time he was up against former team-mates and some of those felt they couldn't even shake his hand.
"All these things maybe affect somebody's emotional state in the game. The celebrations were an outpouring of that."
Adebayor apologised for his behaviour immediately after the match but claimed he had been provoked by the Arsenal fans.
"The emotion took over me," said Adebayor. "Now I just have to say sorry.
"It was silly to run up in front of the Arsenal fans but these people have been insulting me all game. Even in the warm-up they were insulting me. They were saying things that are not nice to hear, personal things."
Whilst Stuart Brennan in the Manchester Untied Evening News, gives a thought provoking OPINION on all thats wrong with other clubs players and their fans.RIOT and you land a hated opponent in hot water. Behave yourself, and the player gets off with it.
The Football Association will send out that twisted message loud and clear if they decide to punish Emmanuel Adebayor with a ban for improper conduct today.
Punishing Adebayor, whilst Robin van Persie and Gary Neville were simply told to stop being such naughty boys, would be wholly inappropriate - and the whole logic of the FA needs to be looked at.
When it boils down to it, Adebayor is being punished for the bad behaviour of the Arsenal fans.
His sprint for the length of the field and knee-slide celebration in front of the visiting supporters has already been dealt with, referee Mark Clattenburg giving him a yellow card.
It is what followed which has landed Adebayor with the charge of improper conduct which will be heard in London today.
Arsenal fans, quite happy to sing foul abuse and shower their former hero in hatred, put on a pathetic display of `let me at him'.
They threw things, they snarled and cursed, and made a great play of pretending they wanted to get onto the pitch to confront Adebayor - although whether any of them would have the guts to actually face the muscular, 6ft 3ins player on their own is highly doubtful.
Just a few minutes earlier, a similar scenario had been played out.
Shouted
Arsenal's Robin van Persie, who had been booed and cursed by City fans in the South Stand when he took corners, stuck one in the net and, instead of turning towards his own fans at that end of the field, raced towards the Blues supporters who had given him stick.
Where Adebayor had simply grinned, van Persie made a mouth-wiping gesture and shouted abuse in the direction of those fans.
The City fans did nothing in return, other than return the verbal compliments and gestures.
Result - no charge for van Persie. Message to City fans - next time throw a water bottle at a steward's head, try to invade the pitch, and van Persie will suffer the wrath of the FA.
Neville ran towards the City fans to celebrate United's late winner and, quite rightly, received no sanction other than a rap on the knuckles.
Three incidents of a similar nature, yet two are dealt with quickly and leneiently, while the third is taken much more seriously, simply because the fans involved in the third did not know how to behave.
It is a dangerous road down which to tread.
Identified
The FA dispute the fact that in using the reaction of supporters as a barometer, they are producing a charter for troublemakers.
They point, beatifically, to the fact that at the same time as they charged Adebayor, they also said: "We have also asked the Greater Manchester Police and the clubs to identify those supporters involved in any violent and aggravating behaviour. The FA would like to see anyone found guilty of such behaviour face action through the legal system and banning orders from football."
I am sure Greater Manchester Police are grateful to receive such direction from on high. Where would society be without the FA urging a crackdown on "violent and aggravating behaviour"?
Spurs boss Harry Redknapp got it spot on when he identified the "idiots and nutters" among the Arsenal support as the real culprits in all this.
And yet, by landing Adebayor with a charge, the pathetic behaviour of that handful of fans has achieved something to their satisfaction.
By contrast, this week Carlos Tevez was rightly applauded for his muted celebration of his first goal against his former club West Ham, out of respect for the support they gave him.
But the fact is that it was based on a mutual respect - the Hammers fans deserve great credit for not descending to the childish level of Arsenal fans, and laying into Tevez.
Tevez has said this week that he would not hold back the celebrations if he scores against United in future, but only because of the abuse and the coin-throwing incident which greeted him on his recent return to Old Trafford. These things work both ways.
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Too often in recent years we have seen fans exhibit such precious behaviour.
A few years ago United's Roy Keane celebrated a last-minute winning goal at Goodison Park in front of Everton fans.
The Scousers were queuing up to "tell on him" to any policeman, steward or emotional therapist who might be willing to listen.
The fact that they had given Keane and his team-mates dogs' abuse throughout the game was lost on them.
Mike Doyle recalled in M.E.N. Sport a fortnight ago how he had celebrated a goal at the Stretford End - who had howled abuse at him - with a two-fingered victory salute.
Nobody tried to lynch him, nobody ran to the nearest policeman, nobody whinged to the FA, and nobody was charged. Everybody survived, physically and mentally intact.
Of course, there has to be a line over which fans and players do not cross. Arsenal fans crossed that line with the personal abuse they dished out to Adebayor.
City fans cross that line when they sing songs calling United `Munichs' and Reds fans cross it when they make references to the Hillsborough disaster.
Until fans stop unacceptable behaviour - whether by volition or sanction - they cannot wail for justice whenever they get a little back.
Todays, lovely wag is Maria Mazza. Lovely Maria has great form as you can see and her former squeeze was non other than Francesco Totti. here's a tasty sneek peak . . .for now 
Back to Footie matters, Ian Winwood questions the fact than fans must save the game, a nice style of writing I'm sure you'll all agree!Why the responsibility is on football fans to ensure violence doesn't drag the game back to the Dark AgesIt seems that one of the burning issues this season is that of fan behaviour. No one has yet been daft enough to describe the simmering, occasionally boiling, discontent from ‘the terraces’ – when was the last time you saw a terrace, by the way? – onto the playing field as a ‘return to the dark days of football hooliganism.’ But clearly this current campaign has begun with a sour taste in the air.
A quick recap of events so far: a steward is injured by Arsenal fans rushing to remonstrate with Mr Adebayor, after the Manchester City player had dashed 70 yards to say hello to them.
Craig Bellamy manhandles a Manchester United supporter who had wandered onto the pitch during the derby with their cross-city rivals.
West Ham fans run – actually, wobble – onto the field of play after taking the lead against local daggerheads Millwall and cause all manner of inconvenience. And on it goes.
What’s the best way to deal with such episodes? Heavy fines? Lifetime bans? National Service?
How about this? How about as football fans we attempt to police ourselves. It is not the job of stewards or police officers or the clubs that we support to keep us in line. It is our own responsibility.
I am not an animal, I am a football fan. And until shown otherwise, I assume that you are too.
I am convinced that the rise in small time aggro at grounds is related to a wider sense of anger and unease in society at large, as if tiny flashes of menace on the weekend are the only form of rebellion the English can manage these days.
Gone is the age when we could stage a full scale riot in Trafalgar Square or Toxteth, a properly terrifying thing that would be seen all over the world. Instead, in its place stand pathetic squabbles inside and outside football grounds. Hardly the same thing, is it?
Attending football matches is already inconvenient enough, don’t make it more so by behaving in a manner you wouldn’t dream of in any other area of your society. The days when the sport was the dumping ground for the worst aspects of the English character belong in the past.
Keep them there.
and finally, the weather . . . Does Leslie yet know wether to keep Craig Bellemy from the start in the game agaist Aston Villa, or wether to be playing Ade straight from the start instead?
