The star has it all. Shockingly naive. "death cell"

“People say if you take the anger out of me, I won’t be half as good a footballer. Shit. I’ll be better,” admits Craig Bellamy. In fact, his career is a series of crazy stories in which his anger plays the main role
The Welshman could growl at the referees, hit a teammate with a golf club, and after this incident, the police mistakenly … detained Jerzy Dudek
Not only was Bellamy angry, he was also naive. He lost everything and had to declare bankruptcy. Now he admits that for years he felt like he was on death row
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The Daily Mail wrote of Craig Bellamy: “He was a crazy, angry, brilliant footballer.” Not only do they use very precise words, but they are also arranged perfectly from most to least appropriate. After all, despite the fact that the Welshman played for Manchester City and Liverpool and created an excellent attacking duo with Alan Scherer, fans remember him mainly from the aforementioned madness.

Shearer, the Premier League’s all-time leading scorer (260 goals), made it clear that he found the Welshman very annoying. The referees certainly did not have an easy task when they had to conduct his matches. Years later, Bellamy came to the conclusion that he was exaggerating.

He admitted in his autobiography: “I hate to watch myself take on the judges. I don’t like that side of me.” Remembering his many misdeeds on the field, one cannot be surprised at such reasoning.

Mark Clattenburg: It was terrible

When Mark Clattenburg, in an interview with the Daily Mail, referred to the players with whom working on the field was a real torture, he simply had to mention Craig Bellamy. Although he officiated matches in various competitions, from the minor to the major, he had never met anyone who bothered him to such an extent.

It all started again in 2009 when Clattenburg red-carded Bellamy against Bolton. When the referee whistled for his foul, he got so angry that he started insulting him. He deserved to be kicked off the field. However, he was sent off for allegedly trying to emulate opponents in the penalty area. It turns out that Clattenburg was wrong. Rather than call a penalty point on Bellamy, he showed him his second yellow card of the day. And then he may regret such a decision.

Craig Bellamy and Frank Lampard (Picture: Ian Kington/AFP)

“In the first half, I asked the Manchester City coaches how they deal with it every day. The federation informed me about this. It was not nice, such things should not come out of the field. If I had done the same thing, they would have commented,” he said behind the scenes of this meeting. Until the end of the season.”

If you thought everything went to the bone, you are wrong. Bellamy vividly remembered the situation, and when he saw Mark Clattenburg again, he remembered it in a rather strange way.

“In the tunnel to the pitch at Etihad Stadium he grabbed my ball and smiled. I knew it was about the game against Bolton. Bellamy was terrible to the umpires. He growled, he waved his arms. He was just rude and vulgar he recalled.

Jerzy Dudek has been arrested by the police

Craig Bellamy admitted: “People say if you take the anger out of me, I’m not half a good footballer. Nonsense. I’ll be better.” And, in fact, there were a few moments when his boundless reserve of rage definitely bothered him. Not just for him. Jerzy Dudek also suffered once for the Welshman, above all John Arne Rees.

It seems that the day before an important Champions League match, footballers eat dinner politely and go to bed, remembering the great challenge that awaits them. But with Bellamy and the Liverpool players, things were a lot different. In 2007, a karaoke party took place in one of the Barcelona bars. The Welshman energetically persuaded his colleague to sing a song. It started with a polite refusal on the part of Rice, and ended in a heated argument.

“I will not sing.” Shut your mouth or I’ll smash you,” the Norwegian finally answered, tired of repeated requests to grab the microphone. Bellamy responded with even more insane words, then continued his attack.

Reis decided to go back to the hotel, but Daniel Agger, who was living with him in the room, wanted to play, so the Norwegian left the door open. It turned out to be a big mistake. He was woken up by Bellamy, who began hitting his teammate with a golf club. He felt that the latter had humiliated him in front of the rest of the team and kept punching him. And a moment later the police arrested … Jerzy Dudek.

Bellamy was so angry that he knocked on one room after another, looking for the Norwegian. Once in a German family, he soon calls the officers, when he sees a madman with a golf club. And they were the first to meet Dodek, whom they quickly led through the hotel.

Surprisingly, everything ended almost perfectly. The Norwegian was not badly hurt, Bellamy was fined and a day later the Reds won 2-1 at the Camp Nou against star-studded Barcelona. The goals were scored by Rize and Bellamy.

Bellamy as death row

Although Craig Bellamy played for some of the biggest clubs in England, he lost it all shortly after his retirement. The millions he made, his watch collections and savings were gone, and he had to declare bankruptcy.

“I’m not a gambler, I don’t drink, but I’ve lost it all,” he told the Daily Mail. And his troubles began with … extraordinary generosity.

Bellamy was not a tax evader, nor did he spend his fortune on parties, but he was very naive. The Daily Mail recounts the harrowing stories of a Welshman who lost money after school in Sierra Leone, funerals of strangers in Cardiff, friends who betrayed him and cheating counsellors. And often he just wanted to help, like a kid from a favela in Rio de Janeiro, who funded his education. However, people took advantage of him, and Bellamy took further steps towards a complete meltdown.

“I’ve been on death row for the past five or six years. I’ve been waiting for someone to let me out of there. Until they open the cell and say it’s that day. I don’t have a financial future. It hurts. I can’t have anything. Everything’s gone.” The 43-year-old sums up his situation.