Have people taken temporary leave of their senses? Does anyone really believe that if Craig Bellamy had attacked a teammate with a golf club around the legs, that

1. The player in question, Riise, woudl not be seriously hurt and
2. Bellamy would still be a Liverpool player.

So they had a row. I think it's being hyped. I'm disappointed with the Times stooping to the level of the gutter press. This story has been overexaggerated on a very slow news day. Whatever happened to checking a story?

Paul, Santa Cruz, USA

In Craig's defence, it does say striker on his business card and he did quite clearly said "four" before any contact was made.

Neale, Manchester,

bellamy should be kicked out of the liverpool team because he's been given far to many chances and he never learns. plus with crouch and kuyt, who both offer better options and have both provided more for liverpool this season who needs bellamy, and with the new take over there's more money so liverpool can buy better players and players that keeps their heads about them on and off the pitch and that do not attack their own team mates especially over something as stupid as karioke.

luke, bristol, england

Players like this do not deserve to be at a franchise like Liverpool Reds and must be traded at the end of season

George Gillet, Cleveland, USA

This is disgraceful from a player who was given yet another chance to join a big club and prove he can hack it. Craig will end up lost and no one will wish to sign him given his problems off the field- too risky!!

Adam Anwar, Barking, Essex

I think if John Arne Riise was hit across the legs with a golf club by Bellamy..he wouldn't be fit to train over the next few days.There is pictures of the latest training sessions that took place after the incident on the official Liverpool FC site and it shows Riise and Bellamy laughing and joking around in the session. Riise even has his hand across Bellamys back! I think that after an incident such as that, it would have a bit more of a hostile effect on their relationships. Professional and non-professional.Whereas for the rest of the news on Fowler,Dudek and Pennant i'm not certain.Fowler has had one to many drinks whilst playing at Liverpool but I feel there is a slight over-exaggeration on this topic. Not placing the blame on 'The Times' but it's just not for me.

darren pearson, east dereham, U.K.

I think they were a bit hard on Bellamy everyone knows what he has done but i am sure he is sorry for it anyway.plus he is also a very good and talented player.

michael, lancaster, uk

Bellamy will doubtless find a home at Bolton Wanderers, home of near-incorrigibles, where Allardyce will turn him around.

Mike, Brookline, USA

Bellamy is one of a type who simply don't realise they're not 12 anymore. Unfortunately, while there are notable exceptions, football is full of them and is so because the clubs and the governing bodies put up with far too much from the prancing primadonnas. Verbally abusing opponents, mobbing referees, screaming at linesmen etc. all behaviour traits that the game turns a blind eye to. It's an old argument but why can't football take an example from rugby? Want to dispute things with the ref? Ok we'll give the opposition another 10 yards. Want to curse and swear? Ok, off you go and do it in the dressing room. A bit more of that in football wouldn't go amiss

Bob Deamhain, Aberdeen,

The fact of the matter is Liverpool being a 'big' club this type of incident gets highlighted and blown out of proportion. Do you really think Bellamy and Riise would have a light hearted photo the morning after a major bust up??

Jamie Stapleton, Worthing, UK

to be fair it has nothing to do with poor man management. good management is all about getting the best out of your staff - in recent weeks bellamy had been scorring and playing well. if he gets drunk and acts like the "nice" guy we know he is then that is not raffa's fault - they are all adults after all and that sort of thing happens in any profession, especially when alcohol is involved. I agree with one of the earlier posts - raffa should seriously consider bringing villa to liverpool.

Dave Rees, Oxford,

Get Villa in he's a quality striker and put Bellamy on his last warning. He's not the worst striker in the premiership. Also get Crouch out, don't rate him at all. COME ON YOU REDS!!!!!!! 6th time for the champions league!

Duncan, Reading,

HAHAHAHA. Bellamy will not leave Liverpool because they cannot get anyone decent to replace him. Liverpool and Bellamy deserve each other - both are full of grand talk, much vaunted ambition and ultimately nominal substance - and lets hope Barca humiliate them.

Philipp, London,

Andrew Davies has read the situation absolutely correctly. It's a shame for Bellamy and a shame for Liverpool, but he, sadly, has only himself to blame>

Nick proctor, Truro, Cornwall UK

Bellamy's not even a very good striker: witness his embarrasing,match-costing string of misses against Newcastle recently. As with sadly many "top" footballers, his talent is mythical, built on hype and spin. Defences do seem wary of him, but if they thought about it, they shouldn't be. His only real quality is his speed, but he just uses it to enable him to make his inevitable mistake that bit earlier........
I watched him from behind the goal many times at St James Park, and saw Alan Shearer's face screwed up in frustration and rage at the chances Bellamy wasted too many times to be in any doubt that what we need is monotonous, clinical accuracy like you get from Shearer or Owen. Please,please, please, don't bring Bellamy back to Newcastle.

John Dawson, Bedford,

Well I don't know what all these other clubs must do to Bellamy.
We found him to be the consummate professional and he would be welcomed back to Ewood Park any time he'd like to return.

Michael, Blackburn, Lancashire, England

Bellamy waste your chance again, thinking your gods gift, when to be honest your not even premiership quality. There are players who would give everything to be where you are, and you go and throw it all away by doin something unnecessary like that!

Ben Guy, Wolverhampton, West Midlands

You would think that with all the rifts in Barcelona, they would increase the pressure with a united and sober front. Instead they just can't help themselves and squabble, fight and get drunk. And always the usual suspects.

kerry livermore, London, England,

Fining 'brainless' idiots like Bellamy and several other Premiership players is not enough. Immediate, indefinite reversion to the reserve team, together with placement on the transfer list is the only language they understand. They will soon be fed up with that and ask to leave of their own accord.

Blue Scally, Wallasey,

What do you expect from a 'small' club; they have been let down many times even by the so-called best player Gerrard with his stamping etc. Not much better than their fans who have a terrible reputation both here and on the continent.

Newgardens, Birmingham,

Everybody knows Craig Bellamy has a very fiery temperament - he is likely to flip at any provocation. To handle Bellamy properly is a big test for any manager. Certainly the confrontational approach that Souness took was never going to work - and maybe Benitez' style is not up to harnessing Bellamy either. It seems only Mark Hughes so far has managed Bellamy with any degree of succes - both with Wales and at Blackburn, Hughes' style has brought out the best of Bellamy's undoubted footballing ability and curtailed his excesses off and on the field. That says a lot for Mark Hughes.

Andrew Davies, Cardiff, UK

Is the new kop song now going to be " you will never walk again?!"

FS, hertford,

Bellamy is a fool. Gets a chance to play for the team he's purportedly supported all his life and blows it. Only thing he supports is his ego.

I also hope John Arne doesnt get fined for this.

Rapr, Exeter, UK

I still struggle to fathom out how exactly Bellamy is still a premiership player. Yes he is quick but there is more menace in his mouth than there is coming from either of his feet. His goalscoring record is poor and his arrogance on and off the pitch is not backed up by his ability. I think the game and the premiership would be better off without this thug. I just feel sorry for Riise who does not drink and from all accounts is a quiet man off the pitch.

Let's hope Liverpool have the sense to get rid of a player who is bringing his club and the game into disrepute with his continued disgraceful behaviour off the pitch. It's not the first time this has happened but I hope it is the last and Bellamy is given his marching orders.

Matthew Kemp, Bath, BANES

was the weapon used one of the "small clubs" Rafa Benitez has been talking about?

Patrick Kevin, Liverpool, England

Craig Bellamy, thanks a lot. I would kill to put on the red shirt and play in front of the Kop. You have the chance and you waste it, AGAIN!

Nathan, Birmingham, West Midlands

Rafa gave him a chance and warned him. He has now thrown it back in to his face. Why wait for the summer. Sack him. We have to keep team spirit as number one priority. How can Craig even face the other players now?

Paul B, Hoylake, Wirral

Same old Bellamy, different club. As a Newcastle fan i was overjoyed when we got rid or the 'upstart'. But even playing for his 'beloved' Liverpool, he cant get the enormous chip off his shoulder. He acts like he's God's gift to football, didnt anyone tell him there is already one in the form of Fowler. Players like him who think them bigger than thier clubs, or the game themselves should be shown the door, and the sooner the better for the Liverpool team.

Ed, Leamington spa, Uk

absolutley priceless. bring him back to blackburn!!!!

anthony desmond, weymouth, uk

Oh and no one saw this coming? I hope we don’t see Riise disciplined, a player who was not drinking and who was attacked for not participating in a karaoke competition by a player we all knew would be trouble from the day he signed and who was never worthy of wearing a Liverpool shirt in the first place.

Funce, London, Britain

I'm going to make a banner for the Barcelona away tie, "Liverpool F.C. For The Ryder Cup". We'll obviously have to represent the USA, with our new billionaire owners, and if it goes to penalties we're a dead cert to win!

Pete Sampara, Plymouth, UK

Bellamy and his ilk are pathetic. Clubs who sign this type of player are foolish. Football's image suffers once again.

Ron McBride, Belfast, UK

Word has it that Señor Benitez, when asked to comment on reports of the affable Craig Bellamy assaulting team mate John Arne Riise with a golf club, simply played down the whole incident, saying, "it's ok, it was only a small club...."

Colm Kavanagh, Arklow Co. Wicklow, Rep of Ireland

I'm an Arsenal fan and am not surprised that Pennant is involved in this latest fracas. Most of us breathed sighs of relief when he was offloaded from Arsenal because of the negative effect had had on the other players in the squad (esp Cashley Cole)

Liverpool does seem to have a knack of signing rejects!

Bisola F, Surbiton,

He is not good enough to pull on the famous Red shirt of Liverpool Football Club. Why wait get him out of the team NOW. Players are AMBASSADORS for the CLUB and the Great City of Liverpool.

Ken, Wollongong, Australia

Jeremy asks, "what the hell was he doing with a golf club in a karaoke bar?" He simply misheard Riise who explained that it was a bar where you could practise your swinging!

Drunk in charge of a three wood.

John, Birmingham, UK

Why did liverpool buy Craig bellamy in the first place? I really saw no purpose for being bought. Liverpool should release him. For a club thats well known and respected, that was an embarrasing situation.

Mack, FT Lauderdale,

This has come as a real surprise to all who know Bellamy, we don't have all the facts yet, he is a very misunderstood player whilst Riise is known for his temper. Has he been in trouble before?

Simple Simon, Lahore , Pakistan

Why do Benitez want to fine Riise? All he did wrong was taking punches while laying in bed. Get rid of Bellamy.

Birg, trondheim, norway

Any player behaving in a manner that brings the club into disrepute should have his contract terminated forthwith. He would never win a claim for compensation and in fact the club should then sue the player for compensation. Just one case where a player was ordered by the courts to pay back a large portion of his tranfer fee and wages would soon put an end to loutish behaviour.

Tony Lloyd, Milton Keynes, UK

Bye bye Bellamy.
Bye bye European Cup.
Bye bye a rosy red future?
What a crowd of toe-rags some of these guys are. They earn thirty or forty time what most fans earn and behave like a bunch of hooligans.
I feel very sorry for Risse having to deal with nonsense like that. Bellamy will need to wise up.

Joe, London, England

Whatever the club, Bellamy seems to think he is bigger and better than the team, its management and, most importantly, its fans. Rafa should show him the door, then kick him through it.

Mr Waghorne, Aegean, Turkey

Liverpool Football club have a tradition of being the 'Best of the Best', unfortunately they have not caught up with a number of other clubs when it comes to discipline.

Manchester United and Arsenal have very strict rules about alcohol consumption. How often do you hear of their players in this type of activity. It is a shameful reflection on what is a wonderful club with a wonderful supporter base. Time to get rid of the 'playboy' footballers and bring some players that set a good example to the club.

Alan Lane, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

what the hell was he doing with a golf club in a karaoke bar?

Jeremy, North vancouver, BC canada

Bellamy was given a chance by rafa, and he has threw it back in his face,liverpool should clear him out pronto.

micky, bootle, merseyside

As a Liverpool fanatic of 24 years, If this story is true, (certain things i've read over the net, such as eye witness accounts from staff in the bar, question its plausability) then Craig Bellamy should be gone quicker than you can say 'Coca Cola Championship'! The guy has had enough chances, but at the end of the day, we do not condone and will not accept such behaviour at Liverpool Football Club. We all had doubts when he signed, similar to the proposed Bowyer deal 5 years ago, but we gave Bellamy the chance to prve himself once again. IF this is true, then well done Craig, you've blown it again!

Peter Jones, Billinge, Nr. Wigan, England