Craig, or "No-Neck" as some of us call him, is a striker (this means goal-scorer) for Liverpool Football Club, my favorite soccer team.
Craig has himself quite a reputation. For goal-scoring, you might ask? Not so much: for fighting with teammates on and off the field, and for sending text messages to managers and team officials informing them that he "doesn't play for s*** clubs." He was kicked off of Newcastle United a few years back for fighting with a teammate -- during a game. Nice lad.
Meet John Arne Riise.
In addition to enjoying tearing his shirt off, Riise is a bad-ass defender for the same Liverpool football club. While it's rumored Riise also enjoys hanging out with a Norweign (male) dancer, Riise's big reputation is for putting the hurt on opposing team members who stray too close to Liverpool's goal. In other words, he's been known to wreck a fool.
But it also appears he doesn't like karaoke.
Most normal people only do karaoke in the throes of a drinking bout. Liverpool are no exception. This past weekend, out on a "team-building" excursion in Spain to prepare for Wednesday's cruical UEFA Champions League match with (Champions League champion) Barcelona, Riise and Bellamy found themselves out at a karaoke bar.
Bellamy, it would seem, enjoys karaoke -- so much so, in fact, that he wanted Riise to go up and sing. Riise refused. Bellamy asked again. Riise refused! So on and so forth.
The two apparently got into a scuffle at the bar over John Arne's refusal to belt out "Walking in Memphis," but were seperated and the entire team left to go back to the hotel. Over and done with, right?
Not so.
So incensed that Riise wouldn't be his mockingbird, Bellamy goes looking for him. In the middle of the night. With a golf club.
Here's the scene to which their teammates and their coach are subjected: No-neck beating down Riise's door with a nine-iron and going to town with same golf club -- on his legs. Riise's a soccer player, mind. He sorta needs those.
Neither camp denied anything, and Riise's agent issued a statement saying he's ok, so you know it happened.
Bellamy got fined two weeks' pay, and the entire team had to put it aside to play Barcelona last night. One of the best teams in the world. Easily the biggest game of the year.
So what happened?
Both Bellamy and Riise score goals, and Liverpool wins 2-1. But the best part is how Bellamy chose to celebrate his.
The great unknown, got 300 yards to go, he's going to use about a 2-iron...
Fore! That's right -- Craig Bellamy just don't care.
2 comments:
what ever you call him he is the fastest striker for liverpool now.he has proved it by scoring against barca at nou camp which is not easy to do so.the good thing is craig and john broke off but they scored for the club
i know this is off topic, but u need to talk about the players the people relly want to know about and that is Becks and Rudd!!!!...its all good though, any futbol news is good news.
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