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

The LA Galaxy star fights poverty with killer abs

Yesterday, David Beckham returned from a three day visit to Sierra Leone, as part of his role as Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF.

Mr B visited rural areas in the North of the country where infant and maternal mortality are amongst the highest in the world, and spent time at a health clinic learning about the most common causes of these deaths, like malaria, which accounts for 33 per cent of child deaths.

He said: “We can’t turn a blind eye to the tens of thousands of young children who die every day in the developing world mostly from causes that are preventable. In Sierra Leone, one in four children dies before reaching their fifth birthday.”

As is customary for a Goodwill Ambassador, Becks also found time for an impromptu game of topless football, which allowed him to show off his rippled washboard abs, glistening in the sun like an Adonis of … uh, what was I saying?

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