Now there’s not many football players about that I really dislike, but I did take great pleasure in Craig Bellamy’s poor performance last night on his return to Coventry after leaving the club some nine years ago.
Despite only scoring 6 goals during his one season with us, I have no doubt about the ability of the Welsh front man. A top player I know that he is, and I was shocked when I seen him come down to the Championship. A man of his quality would have had no shortage of clubs from the Premiership willing to take him.
Ability apart though, the guy is nothing short of a trouble maker. He seems to fall out with the staff and players at pretty much any club that he has been at, including the ridiculous golf club incident with John Arne Riise at Liverpool. The reason for my dislike though, is because of his criticism of Coventry City Football Club, and the City itself when he left for Newcastle all those years ago.
I have to admit though, despite not doing anything all night, I was worried that he would pop up with the winning goal, to silence the boo boys in the Ricoh Arena. Cardiff manager Dave Jones said in a post match interview that the fans were scared of Bellamy. He was probably right, but he was far from the truth when he said that was the reason for the jeers.
As for the match, a penalty given in the fourth minute is an incident I would like to see again. From where I was sitting (half way up the stand behind the goal where it happened) it didn’t look like a penalty. Sure, Turner seemed to have hold of him, but if you’re going to start giving penalties for that, then you will be giving them all day long. Harsh I thought. In the end though, it was another former Coventry man that got the winning goal. Jay Bothroyd, another player that most of Coventry fans hate and abuse.
Our performances this season, I think, are beginning to get better. A win away at Ipswich and a narrow loss - albeit still a loss - against a good Cardiff side just 2 points off the top of the league are two not bad results. Last night we were fighting for the ball in midfield, going in for fifty-fifty balls whereas before we were bottling it. The one thing we are still missing though I feel, is a creative midfielder, someone that is going to make things happen, because with Marlon King in the side now, I think we have the goals in us.
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