Exclusive interview with former Liverpool winger Jermaine Pennant on the chaotic night out with his team-mates in the Algarve
If you put the name ‘Craig Bellamy’ into Google, beyond the former Liverpool striker’s profile, ‘Craig Bellamy golf club’ is the second-highest suggested search term.
READ MORE: Steven Gerrard and Jordan Henderson disappointed as Liverpool legends face new low in SaudiYet that wasn’t the only controversial incident to take place on Liverpool’s trip to the Algarve, with a number of Reds players later recalling how Jerzy Dudek was arrested on the very same night after a boozy night out gone wrong.
“It was just as he turned around, they bumped into each other. But obviously not speaking the language, the waiter and the bar staff are panicking. You don’t know what’s going on and the police then get called. “It was on the training pitch,” Pennant recalled. “We were all on the training pitch and just before we start training, he’s got us in a big circle.
Pennant didn’t always see eye-to-eye with Benitez during his three seasons at Liverpool. While he made 52 appearances during the 2006/07 campaign after joining in a £6.7m deal from Birmingham City, helping the Reds reach the Champions League final, he quickly fell out of favour with his manager soon after.
“At the start of the second season, the medical staff said to me, ‘Look, if you continue playing on it, it could snap. Do you want surgery on it?’ So I did and then I was out for three months. “And from then on, it kind of just went from bad to worse throughout the seasons as I was left in the dark.” “But I think Rafa Benitez was just very very hard to really work with. He didn’t like to hear anyone else’s views. It was his way or no way.
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