I saw police handcuff two of my Liverpool team-mates on infamous night out
If you put the name ‘Craig Bellamy’ into Google, beyond the former Liverpool striker’s profile, ‘Craig Bellamy golf club’ is the second-highest suggested search term.
A little lower down the list, you will see ‘Craig Bellamy John Arne Riise’. You don’t have to be a Reds fan to have the exact same first thought when the pair are mentioned, with their names synonymous alongside each other to this day because of a drunken altercation when Reds team-mates back in February 2007.
Rafa Benitez’s side were training in the Algarve at the time ahead of facing the mighty Barcelona, then reigning European champions, in Camp Nou in the Champions League round-of-16. Following a drunken argument earlier in the evening, Bellamy would infamously burst into Riise’s hotel room and strike him with a golf club.
Days later, both would score in Liverpool’s famous 2-1 victory in the Camp Nou, with the Wales international celebrating his own strike with a golf wing before the Norwegian’s late winner. Unsurprisingly, the whole saga holds an unforgettable place in the Reds’ modern history.
Steven Gerrard and Jordan Henderson disappointed as Liverpool legends face new low in Saudi
Mohamed Salah exit timeline claim made as potential Liverpool 'replacement' identified
Yet that wasn’t the only controversial incident to take place on Liverpool’s trip to the Algarve, with a number of Reds players later recalling how Jerzy Dudek was arrested on the very same night after a boozy night out gone wrong. It was reported at the time, though did not grab the attention as much as Bellamy and Riise’s own altercation, with it previously remaining unclear what actually happened to warrant police intervention.
Local newspapers at the time claimed that Jermaine
Read on liverpoolecho.co.uk
