Training camp bust up/newspaper rumours

[AFII]

- Bellamy angrep Riise med golfkølle

Skal ha sparket inn døra til hotellrommet

Craig Bellamy skal ha gått til angrep på lagkameraten John Arne Riise.

Saken vil bli omtalt i flere britiske aviser i morgen, melder TV 2.

Liverpool har hatt en periode med spillefri og har vært på treningsleir på Algarve-kysten i Portugal. Fredag kveld skal det ha blitt svært så dramatisk, med Riise og Bellamy i hovedroller.

Blåmerker

Ifølge TV 2 skal spissen Bellamy ha sparket inn døren til Riises hotellrom og slått ham flere ganger med en golfkølle. Nordmannen skal, ifølge Nettavisen, ha tatt en tidlig kveld etter en tur på byen, og lå i senga da Bellamy sparket seg inn på rommet hans. Det skal stå etter forholdene bra til med Riise, men han skal ha pådratt seg blåmerker.

Craig Bellamy har hatt rykte på seg for å være en bråkmaker. I november i fjor var han i retten etter at en 19 år gammel jente hevdet han tok kvelertak på henne på en nattklubb.

Liverpool-spissen ble imidlertid frikjent for forholdet.

Fyllebråk

Den portugisiske avisen Record rapporterer at flere Liverpool-spillere skal ha havnet i fyllebråk på den samme turen. Jerzy Dudek, Robbie Fowler og Jermaine Pennant skal ha vært blant de verste.

VG Nett har ikke klart å oppnå kontakt med John Arne Riises rådgiver Jan Kvalheim.

http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=138903

[Jennings]

What sort of golf club, a wood or iron? :whatever:

A Norwegian Wood.



Taxi for Jennings!

[The Glove]

How come the Norwegians know everything?

[jonesie]

A Norwegian Wood.



Taxi for Jennings!

Well it made me laugh anyway. Top work.

[Rocket]

How come the Norwegians know everything?

Scandos know everything

[AFII]

The incident with Bellamy and Riise isn't from the portugise paper, it's from TV2 a norwegian TV channel according to the article.

[SouthAfricaRed]

I know quite a few on this site who would love to do the same

[jonesie]

Was it the same golf club that Dudek, Fowler and Pennant used to smash up all the cars?????

[AFII]

It's from two different papers and that makes a lot more credible

[kendoddsdadsdogsdead]

How come the Norwegians know everything?

It is their civic duty to worry about Riise and their beloved LFC. Besides which, some of the tabloids are just as salacious as our rags. A population of just 4 million gets to know things quite quickly.

[Rocket]

its the same golf club Tiger sunk the winning putt with in the Masters

[kendoddsdadsdogsdead]

It's from two different papers and that makes a lot more credible

I just went to Dagbladet because that came to mind first.

[AFII]

I don't believe it but that it's this time isn't from the portugise paper isn't any good.

[AFII]

Liverpool stars are alleged to have gone on an alcohol-fuelled rampage during a training camp last week in Portugal.

Goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek, Jermaine Pennant and former England striker Robbie Fowler were named by local newspapers as being involved in a drunken spree at the Barringtons Golf and Health Club, in Vale do Lobo, on the Algarve, in the early hours of Friday morning.

Dudek, a hero of Liverpool’s Champions League triumph in Istanbul two years ago,was reported to have been handcuffed after the incident, which is alleged to have occurred at the end of a warm-weather training camp undertaken to prepare for Liverpool’s Champions League game in Barcelona on Wednesday.

A Liverpool spokesman said last night: "The matter will be dealt with internally."

The future of all three players will be in doubt if the allegations are shown to be true. But Pennant, whose troubled past includes a spell in prison for drunken driving, has the most to lose, with veterans Dudek and Fowler already likely to be leaving the club at the end of the season.

Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez was in nearby Vilamoura at the time of the alleged trouble. He will be disappointed with the claims against Pennant after he gave the player a chance to resurrect his top-flight career by signing him for £6million from Birmingham last summer.

The allegations will also make waves across the Atlantic, where the club’s new American owners, George Gillett Jnr and Thomas Hicks, are unlikely to be impressed at the tarnishing of Liverpool’s reputation on the eve of the next formal stage of their £450m takeover.

Local sources claim the trouble began at a bar called Monty’s, in Vale do Lobo, where about 15 members of the squad had gone for a drink after a team meal on the eve of their departure from Portugal.

After several rounds of beer, the party reportedly became rowdy and, despite the efforts of captain Steven Gerrard and England international Peter Crouch to defuse the situation, police were called.

Officers escorted the party back to Barringtons but trouble is said to have flared again. No one was arrested or charged but Dudek is alleged to have been restrained by police. It is understood that Barringtons reported only a broken glass and Liverpool are said to have agreed to pay for any damage.

The incident recalls the scandal of another sunshine trip by an English club, when a drunken night involving Leicester players in La Manga in 2004 ended in three of them being charged with sexual assault, a case which subsequently collapsed.

Although not as serious, the allegations against Liverpool could not have come at a more crucial time for the club.

Shareholders will receive a formal offer document in the morning from Kop Football Ltd, the Hicks/Gillett company bidding for the club.

Kop will then have a minimum of 21 days to agree a deal with the owners of 75 per cent of the shares, at which point they would be irreversibly committed to buying the club.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1779

[kendoddsdadsdogsdead]

I don't believe it but that it's this time isn't from the portugise paper isn't any good.

If you look on Dagbladet's front page, the guy underneath Riise doesn't look too happy about the news.