Source: Telegraph
Craig Bellamy ban will make Manchester City realise their transfer folly
THE DAILY BUNG'S LUNCHTIME HEADLINES [LNB]Michael Owen is set to be "rewarded" for his derby winner against Manchester City by starting with the stiffs against Wolves tomorrow night. No pleasing some people is there.... [LNB]Arsenal fans will get a not-entirely welcome blast from the past tomorrow when Phillipe Senderos (Bald guy, err, think he was Swiss. Bit gormless looking. No, not Cygan, bit better than him. Err, let me think rubbish in the air. Still no?) gets a start against West Brom. [LNB]And Carlos Tévez says he was shocked and disappointed at the reaction he received from Manchester United fans on Sunday. "It was hard to take because previously I was always wanted by those people," said planet's most overpriced and naïve footballer. [LNB]----[LNB]STRIKER-LIGHT[LNB]Jake Clarke must have thought he was safe. After all, not many men get slapped by Craig Bellamy. [LNB]But Clarke, the self-confessed 'idiot' who ran onto the Old Trafford pitch on Sunday, was in for a nasty shock. [LNB]'He's a vicious thug,' Jake whines in this morning's Mirror. 'He shouted at me: 'Get off the f***** pitch. He said it a few times, then just shoved me in the face.' [LNB]The Sun, for reasons which aren't immediately clear, have also interviewed young Jake, even getting him to pose with a copy of the paper (What's the branding here, I wonder? 'The Sun: The paper the pitch-invaders read'?) [LNB]But Mark Bowen, City's assistant manager, reckons cuddly Craig has no case to answer. [LNB]'They came really close,' said Bowen, which, as a description, is a little 'two-to-tango' considering Jake was being frogmarched off the pitch by four security guards when Bellamy steamed up to him. [LNB]'[Craig] thought he was going to spit in his face,' added Bowen, but it turns out Craig was wrong. [LNB]What made him think that way, though? Apart from reading The Sun, there's little to suggest that Chorley roofer Jake is a potential face-spitter. [LNB]However, I'm sure Bellamy has developed a little stranger danger over the years, given the amount of 'constructive criticism' he no doubt receives from observers. [LNB]Anyhoo, it now looks as if Bellamy, like Emmanuel Adebayor, will now be banned for three matches. [LNB]And considering that Bellamy, like Adebayor, is in the form of his life at the moment, that's something of a bummer for Mark Hughes, who, if the FA get a wriggle on, will only have the blatantly unfit Carlos Tévez to call on when City travel to West Ham on Monday. [LNB]So come on, hands up. Who said, at the start of the season, that City would pay the price for a lack of strikers? Just me?? [LNB]----[LNB]QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Had we drawn the game, it would have been difficult to go into the dressing room because the manager would have given the hair-dryer to everybody,' - Patrice Evra. [LNB]BET OF THE DAY: Leeds to beat Liverpool @ 7/2[LNB]MUST READ: Even top refs are getting into the loutish side of football [LNB]MUST WATCH: An altogether more charming pitch invader [LNB]
