Former Celt Craig Bellamy has lifted the lid on his well publicised text row with Alan Shearer.
A fall-out with Graeme Souness in January 2005 led to the Welshmamn moving to Celtic on loan but that didn’t diminish his love for Newcastle- or contempt for captain Shearer.
Watching Newcastle being hammered 4-1 by Manchester United in the 2005 FA Cup semi-final was painful enough for Bellamy before Shearer was interviewed and blamed the defence for the defeat.
That proved to be too much for Bellamy who turned to his mobile phone to give the England hero a piece of his mind.
In an extract from his book Craig Bellamy: Good Fella which is being serialised in The Mirror Bellamy explains: “Afterwards, Alan Shearer did a television interview. He mentioned shortcomings in defence, which made me laugh.
“Alan needed to look at himself a bit more. He wasn’t the player he had been and now he was trying to pass the buck.
“It was sad, because I had so much admiration for Alan as a player and I learned so much from him. But time had caught up with him.
“I had seen the semi-final. I had seen how poorly he performed personally.
“I thought it was wrong for him to do an interview afterwards in those circumstances so I got my phone out and texted him.
“F****** typical of you,” I texted. “Looking at everyone else yet again. You need to look at yourself instead. Your legs are f****** shot. Concentrate on yourself and let the team take care of itself.”
“I got one back from him straight away.
“If I ever see you in Newcastle again,” he wrote, “I’ll knock you out.”
“I’m back in Newcastle next week,” I texted back. “Pop round and say hello.”
“I certainly wasn’t scared of him, I’ve seen his bite, his ‘Big, hard Al’ act wasn’t for me. I have seen younger boys than me put him in his place on the team coach.
“I watched him digging out Lomana LuaLua once, and when LuaLua told him to go to the back of the coach and say it to his face, Al didn’t fancy that much. He didn’t move an inch.”
Bellamy never played again for Newcastle, after his loan to Celtic he joined Blackburn Rovers.
“If I ever see you in Newcastle again,” he wrote, “I’ll knock you out.” hahahahaha i wonder if bellamy fancied a game of golf that week lol
Terrific player, total twat.
Both shearer and bellamy
Shearer: knob
He would have killed Lomana LuaLua, but he was a senior person for his club & country, he would not do that on a packed coach, but put him on his back when the coast was clear.
Shearer was a hard man
I was at Glasgow airport when a Hun asks Bellamy To sign a Rangers Top. The wee man says to him I aint Signing that And Walked On. Magic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=oRgufpRjFf4#t=67s
That’s the very bit.. Fair play to Bellamy for that!
Southampton, Blackburn and Newcastle, I would tend to believe Bellamy because I thought Shearer was a shite bag when he played.
Le Tissier carried him at Southampton, Chris Sutton carried him at Blackburn and the whole team carried him at Newcastle.
He’s the last I hope of a dying breed that is the egotistical self righteous Engerlish centre forward. Well done Craig about time somebody took him down a peg.
Hail hail
Sleekit shearer would go down well at the hunnery, a sleekit snidey gobshite of a man.
His sleekit kick at Lenny sums him up, it reminded me of sleekit sallys snidey backstabing cowardly punch back in the day. (Hibs?Aberdeen?)
Bellamy might be a lot of things, but he walks it as he talks it, Shearer is a ratbag, its just apity he purports to be a Celtic man,
I think I could find it hard to put up a better example of someone who just doesn’t ‘get it’ other than an out right hun.
HH
Your right ,a forward who couldn’t lace Gary hopper shoes,if he was in the ep.l wish he would stay with the bhoys g h best forward in UK
I don’t remember saying that, lol!