The Bellamy Factor!

Craig Bellamy – My New Hero!

Once described by Sir Bobby Robson as ‘a man who could start a fight in an empty room’ controversy has always followed Bellamy, but such is his effect on the pitch that Manchester City paid an estimated £14 million to West Ham United in order to acquire his fiery talents in January 2009.

 

Along with Ched Evans, Bellamy is my hero! Since coming to City he has bamboozled defenders with his blistering pace which makes defenders sweat like Geordies in a maths test! He is the player City needed to boost our recent revolution. He can play on the right hand side of midfield, behind a striker or as a lone man up front. PERFECT!

 

A victim of ‘Rafa’s rotation policy’ during his time at Anfield, Craig was keen to play as much football as possible and moved to join West Ham United for £7.5m in July 2007, stating: “It was important for me to start playing regular football.

“I could sit at Liverpool as a squad player all day long, picking up my money, playing every now and then, but I’d be cheating myself and my personality.”

 

 

Hughes loves players that will work their tails off, both in training and on the pitch. Bellamy certainly has that work ethic. Bellamy also has sharp pace, there is no doubt! City lack pace up top for the most part. Nery Castillo showed he had pace to burn last year but had no “touch” with the ball, so was rendered ineffective, and rightly so. His pace makes him dangerous. Teams already know that and will try and respect that. In theory, it should help create space for others to create and attack.

 

Bellamy might not be a maestro up top compared to the likes of Torres e.t.c., but he can finish nicely with good service from his midfield and wide defenders, namely SWP, Superman, Zabaleta and Bridge. Our current team is supplying good service to the strikers so here is a chance to take advantage of that. If the service to him is quality (i.e. from Superman), he should capitalise and I have every faith he will.

 

Jo looks the part on YouTube, I can’t understand what has happened there, so hopefully Bellamy is the ideal replacement.

Absolute flop…disaster!

 

My only worry is as follows;

 

For a game or two he’s superb, and then…he’s on the injury list for the next six weeks. I won’t even bother mentioning his habit of ignoring teammates who might be in a better scoring position (although I’m not too fussed about that as he seems to be a good finisher!) He has his critic and they say he must be a fun guy to play with…as long as you don’t find yourself on the wrong end of a golf club (remember John Arne Riise a couple of years ago?) or don’t mind constant whining on the pitch (and I’d imagine it’d only be worse in the dressing room with Robinho!).

 

Some believe that West Ham are the winners here…my opinion…no chance! HE’S BLLOMING BRILLIANT! ISTANBUL WE ARE COMING!