Tunnel Trouble

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Is it just press exagerration?

 

Craig Bellamy was last night at the centre of an ugly spat with his former team-mates and Newcastle United staff as tempers boiled over in the tunnel in the wake of Liverpool's 2-0 Premiership success.

 

An evening spent enduring abuse from visiting fans spilled into acrimony after the final whistle as Bellamy made his way towards the dressing room. There were suggestions punches had been thrown, although the Liverpool manager Rafael Benítez was adamant the incident was little more than a verbal exchange.

 

 

Bellamy in tunnel flare-up with former team-mates

 

Dominic Fifield at Anfield

Thursday September 21, 2006

The Guardian

 

Craig Bellamy was last night at the centre of an ugly spat with his former team-mates and Newcastle United staff as tempers boiled over in the tunnel in the wake of Liverpool's 2-0 Premiership success.

 

An evening spent enduring abuse from visiting fans spilled into acrimony after the final whistle as Bellamy made his way towards the dressing room. There were suggestions punches had been thrown, although the Liverpool manager Rafael Benítez was adamant the incident was little more than a verbal exchange.

 

"I could hear something but I couldn't understand what happened," said the Spaniard. "I really couldn't see. It was over in maybe two seconds. I think it was shouting, nothing else." That view was reiterated by Liverpool officials and stewards, with tempers frayed after Bellamy was taunted by supporters mindful of his very public falling-out with Newcastle and their former striker Alan Shearer - present in the directors' box last night - in particular. The Wales striker had a plastic bottle thrown at him in the first half, but he picked it up and pretended to drink.

 

The tunnel fracas, however minor, marred an evening which had simmered with venom. The Football Association may be pressed into viewing video footage of a first-half incident involving Celestine Babayaro, who appeared deliberately to catch Dirk Kuyt in the face, with the undercurrent of spite only overshadowed by a stunning goal from Xabi Alonso, scored from inside his own half 11 minutes from time.

 

It was the second time in less than a year that the Spaniard has registered from such a distance but Benítez admitted that his first reaction had been to berate his player as he ignored the unchecked run of Steven Gerrard down the flank. "I was going to tell him off because I could see Stevie running forward," the manager said. "But it was an amazing goal. It was further away than the goal he scored at Luton [in January]. He does it in training sessions before he has properly warmed up and I always tell him he could get injured trying things like that. But he was clearly practising for this."

[Stew F]

That's a shame, when I read the post title I was hoping to read that Dirk had sparked that little s*** Babayaro!

[Fagan]

all i know is that all the press are leading with the story "Bellamy in Tunnel bust up" and "Craig Bellamy was last night at the centre of an ugly spat"

 

rather than "Carr in tunnel bust up"

 

typical

[owenthomas]

my mate text'd me last night to say that Bellamy was arguing with Carr and Terry Mac in the tunnel but he didn't know what exactly had happened (whether it was just shouting or whether there were punches thrown).. i'll probably find out more today if he goes down to Mellwood..

 

i agree with fagan though on the way it's been reported..

[aka Dus]

Steven Carr in being a prick shock. Who'd have thought.

[Stevie H]

funny isn't it, a year ago i'd have been calling bellamy all sorts of names. now i'm right behind him because he's ours and newcastle are a pathetic, two-bob, joke of a club.

[Benitez]

read elsewhere that Terry McDermott 'started it' (how childish that sounds ), which wouldnt suprise me, there is history there.

[Boca]

Steven Carr in being a prick shock. Who'd have thought.

 

All descriptions of Carr should be prefaced with the word fat.

[Guest KJI]

All descriptions of Carr should be prefaced with the word fat.

 

 

or wan ?

[robfar1]

Or 'Fu'

 

 

All descriptions of Carr should be prefaced with the word fat.

[ricflairandy]

From what ive been told, carr threw a punch at bellamy, he went to thow one back and macca jumped in between, had a bit of a verbal with bellamy and that was that.

[Coyler]

All descriptions of Carr should be prefaced with the word fat.

Proper f***ing order.

 

And all mentions of The C*nt Duff should now also contain the words "F*cking Invisible".

[Boca]

Proper f***ing order.

 

And all mentions of The C*nt Duff should now also contain the words "F*cking Invisible".

 

 

Shouldn't that be "The f***ing Invisible c*** Duff" then ?

Edited September 21, 2006 by Boca

[Guz]

Hopefully it was someone telling Parker to stop clutching his face, cheating t***.

[chrisbonnie]

Hopefully it was someone telling Parker to stop clutching his face, cheating t***.

 

could you imagine if that was "foreinger" as the racist commentators liek to say, there`d be bloody uproar, but ah no, its a good honest british lad, i like Parker and all ,but that was out of order

[owenthomas]

mate, why dya think it was out of order?

[Tonto]

 

"Carr in tunnel bust up"

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtCKT9EiyZk

[Guz]

mate, why dya think it was out of order?

 

Clutching your face after a handball??

[owenthomas]

yes?

 

or i'll rephrase it then.. "why do you think that was out of order, do you think he should have got up shaking his hand where he'd been hit?"

[Phil236849]

another point of order

 

all mentions of barcodes gk harper need to be prefixed by "needs to be a damn sight s"

[chrisbonnie]

yes?

 

or i'll rephrase it then.. "why do you think that was out of order, do you think he should have got up shaking his hand where he'd been hit?"

 

there was no free kick awarded, so he got away with it, why did he need to blatantly lie? id be the first to say the same if one of lads did the same, its dishonest

[Coyler]

I hate the bollix Parker but I thought it was fairly clear that he was on the turf clutching his head in one of those bouts of intense self-loathing and depression that he's been getting ever since he greedily engineered the destruction of his own career.

[Alonso]

there was no free kick awarded, so he got away with it, why did he need to blatantly lie? id be the first to say the same if one of lads did the same, its dishonest

A bit like Garcia screaming blue murder at the ref for booking him for a deliberate handball that resulted in a disallowed goal?

[owenthomas]

there was no free kick awarded, so he got away with it, why did he need to blatantly lie? id be the first to say the same if one of lads did the same, its dishonest

he was just hiding the fact that he'd handballed it - if it was one of ours i wouldn't want him to go up to the ref saying "ow, that really hurt my hand and i understand why you must now give a free kick"..

 

A bit like Garcia screaming blue murder at the ref for booking him for a deliberate handball that resulted in a disallowed goal?

i wasn't going to bring that up myself but now it's been mentioned i'd have loved that goal to have stood and wouldn't have called Garcia dishonest..

[Guz]

A bit like Garcia screaming blue murder at the ref for booking him for a deliberate handball that resulted in a disallowed goal?

 

Yes it was dishonest and I couldn't believe he had the cheek to argue against the yellow as it was a clear handball and the ref had no option but to book him. Just because it was our player doesn't mean we can't argue against it. I love Carra to bits but hated him moaning at the ref for few minutes to send Gatusso off in Istanbul, just like I hate it when Drogba or someone starts waving an imaginary card at the ref.

 

I dont expect Parker to let everyone in the ground know that he handballed it but why not just get on with the game instead of going down clutching your face? Since he's not Spanish, french, portugese etc. it seems to have been ignored but it was clear as day from the replay that he was conning the ref. It's exactly the same as diving in the box which I hate, despite our squad having a few players prone to the occasional tumble.

 

It's not the worst thing a footballer can do by any stretch of the imagination but I was still dissapointed to see Parker do it.