Striker misinterprets purpose of goodwill mission

When it comes down to it, Craig Bellamy is a good guy. If you ignore the golf club attacks on teammates, nightclub assaults on women, chair hurling, racially aggravated assault and his thoroughly unprofessional attitude to transfers, he’s just a sweet little lamb with a pure heart. In testament to that fact, he’s just set up the Craig Bellamy Foundation in Sierra Leone, using £650,000 of his own money to help the disadvantaged children of the war-torn nation. Awww.

Oh wait, he’s just gone and duffed up a charity worker after an all-day drinking session in a casino:

The incident happened in the country’s capital, Freetown, in the early hours of Saturday after Bellamy and his two former SAS bodyguards went for drinks at the Lagonda Casino.

One witness said: “Bellamy had two minders with him but within 20 minutes of his arrival there was trouble.

“He was playing on a roulette table when something seemed to upset him. He was shouting and squaring up to people at the table.

“A few seconds later he jumped on one guy and started wrestling

Lenny Pidgeley is a classy guy

Millwall Keeper Lenny Pidgeley is so flush that he hires a team of aides to carry him out of nightclubs, thus reducing wear and tear on his lucrative muscles. Either that, or he was drunk off his arse and objected to being asked to leave Funky Buddha nightclub in the early hours of this morning.

Lenny may have been hanging out with his old Chelsea teammates, who were celebrating their Champions League victory at the venue. My guess is that Princess Frank took exception to his defiance of the leather jacket club, and asked him to leave.