Don’t Hold Your Tongue Craig Bellamy
Craig Bellamy
The impression of Criag Bellamy may have been that he is a gobby, arrogant, occasionally violent product of the grisly Premier League age.
It now appears he is in fact a fiercely honest, searingly incisive, tell-it-like-it-is victim of a culture that… Hang on.
Perhaps that’s going a bit far.
But there is something about Bellamy, a hideously unappealing but still strangely attractive and compelling figure. A beautiful gargoyle.
He is the loudmouth whose opinion you actually want to hear, because it’s compellingly honest.
Speaking after Manchester City’s 4‑2 victory at Stamford Bridge on Saturday, Bellamy said of Terry: “Everybody in football knows what the guy is like. But that is off the field.”
You wanted to hear more.
John Terry has said Bellamyis guilty of hypocrisy following his critical comments regarding his affair with the mother of Wayne Bridge’s child.
Terry’s retort was pithy and to the point. “People in glasshouses should not throw stones.”
But people wanted more Bellamy.
Let me hear the truth.
Bellamy has in the past fallen out with Graeme Souness and Alan Shearer: could he be the voice of the anti-macho and the anti-bland, antithesis to the antiseptic?
Then, you remember the other stuff.
The golf club, the assorted public order arrests. Bellamy will have to remain an alluring gargoyle, a guilty pleasure, and a stopped clock that tells the right time once a day.
But he is definitely fun.
Courtesy of The Guardian
HAVE YOUR SAY: Should Bellamy hold his tongue as it is none of his business? Or do you want to hear more?
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