Monday, February 19, 2007

Bellamy Back to his "teambuilding" ways

I wasn't going to mention this, but then it even made the news over here, so guess it was a bigger deal than I thought. Or maybe after having supported a team he played for, you become impervious to his charms, and basically block it all out.

Anyway, for those that haven't heard, the Liverpool squad are away for one of those winter shindigs to the Algarve, where they get some sunshine, train a few times, and get allowed out for the usual "we want to be in the Sunday papers, so we're all going to get wasted" night out. Luckily, Liverpool had a number of willing volunteers for the last task, and so starts the night of drama. Apart from the usual Robbie Fowler gets wasted with his mates, and the police have to be called to calm things down, the main attraction was a certain round of golf Mr Bellamy decided to play. Apparently upset at the piss taking of his karoake performance (or something similarly life threatening), he decided to play a quick round, substituting the use of a ball for his teammate - John Arne Riise's legs.

The Liverpool PR men are now in full damage control mode, with talk of fines for club rules being broken (I presume meaning that you're not really supposed to beat up your teammates, rather than an improper use of equipment golfing fine). There's also talk of Bellamy being out in the summer, which is hardly surprising, given he hasn't exactly set the Liverpool team on fire with his goalscoring exploits, even without the latest incident. At least he didn't get arrested I guess.....

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