The well known facts are that Rafa Benitez is very calm person and that Craig Bellamy used to be very aggressive during his playing days with Liverpool, Newcastle, Manchester City and West Ham. But in certain times, although very rarely, Rafa was the angry one, and one of those situations were because of Bellamy, who went from being aggressive to be totally bonkers. In a story told by former Reds defender Fabio Aurelio, it was the Welsh international who nearly ended Riise’s career before an important game in the Champions League, over a karaoke dispute?Bellamy quits his role as Kompany’s assistant manager to deal with depressionThe incident happened in 2007, just before a big game against Barcelona, and the team went to the Algarve in Portugal for training but soon thing have gone south.”It was bizarre, actually. Bellamy lost his mind and went to Riise’s room to hit him with a golf club! We were relaxing in Portugal before a Champions League game against Barcelona and then the police showed up at our hotel. Benitez was going crazy, but luckily it didn’t escalate further. We played Barca and Bellamy scored a goal. The funny thing is that Riise took part in the build-up to the goal. Bellamy celebrated by swinging an imaginary golf club. The fans didn’t know why he was doing that celebration, but the players did” explained Aurelio, per FourFourTwo.##NAJAVA_MECA_983713##The reason for this bizarre incident was given by the potential victim – John Arne Riise, who published his autobiography three years ago, and explained that Bellamy was unhappy that he had turned down his requests to sing on karaoke.”I woke in the dark to hear someone opening the door. Obviously I thought it was roommate Daniel Agger. I turned, but my eyes were half-asleep, and I didn’t see anything in the sudden, bright glare. But something made me realise that it wasn’t Agger. And soon I could see him – Craig Bellamy at the foot of my bed with a golf club in his hands. Steve Finnan, who shared a room with Bellamy, was there too, but he just stood there. Bellamy raised the club over his head and swung as hard as he could. He tried to hit my shins, which would have ended my career, but I managed to pull my leg away in time. I jumped out of bed, pulled off the sheet and held it between us like I was some kind of half-awake matador. Bellamy sputtered: ‘Nobody disrespects me like that in front of the lads!’ He was completely gone” said Riise.
