Craig Bellamy has admitted he 'lost it' with team-mate John Arne
Riise during Liverpool's Portugal break when it was alleged he
brandished a golf club at the Anfield defender.
Bellamy is reported to have been fined for the incident - a figure
of £80,000 has been mentioned - and he has revealed he confronted
Riise in the player's hotel room while Liverpool were on a sunshine
break on the Algarve 10 days ago.
He told the Daily Mirror: 'It started when we were all doing a bit
of karaoke. I only sang one song and that was Red, Red Wine by
UB40. That was because Jerzy Dudek was drinking it. That's how
silly it all was.
'A lot of the lads wanted Riise to get up there next because he
hadn't turned up at the dinner earlier and I tried to get him up,
too.
'I wasn't that bothered whether he wanted to sing or not so I sat
back down but he wasn't too happy about me trying to get him to
sing so he let me know about it.
'The situation was calmed down then but when I was walking back to
the hotel with Steve Finnan, who I was rooming with, I lost control
for a few seconds.
'I went and confronted 'Ginger' and I said to him 'don't be doing
that in front of the players again'.
'And that was really about it. I didn't want to cause a scene in
front of everybody else. I just wanted to talk to him about it
alone.
'John has been great about it. Straight away the next morning we
were training together. There's no problem now.'
haha this excuse was lame 