Watch: Craig Bellamy puts Sky Sports presenter in his place over ‘small Wales jibe’
If there is one thing you can’t say of Craig Bellamy is that he isn’t fiercely proud of being Welsh.
This he ably proved when appearing on Sky Sports Monday Night football coverage of Leicester v Newcastle.
Sky Sports presenter Dave Jones won’t forget the chastening exchange (for him at least) for a while, when he dared to suggest that on taking the Wales job Craig Bellamy had ‘gone into a small footballing nation’.
Bellamy, who could turn any journalist to stone with just a stare, glowers at the interviewer who seems singularly lacking in knowledge about the giant strides in Welsh football at international level, before replying firmly: ‘No, I disagree’.
In the background Sky summariser Jamie Carragher chips in laughing with ‘Start that again Dave’.
The Wales boss then stands his ground brilliantly stating how his country are not second best or seen as underdogs to anybody and how Welsh football culture is embedded into the psyche of the nation.
— Wales
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It’s a brilliant bit of television that will endear everyone Welsh or otherwise to Bellamy’s cause.
We cannot confirm, but we reckon host Dave Jones may have needed treatment for burns after the interview.
However, we can say with total certainty Welsh fans loved it.
Here are some of the comments…
When he wasn’t tearing the presenter a new one he was also showing off his keen tactical brain to all and sundry much to the impressed masses on social media, who were hugely complimentary about his tactical nous.
Long may you keep on, keeping on Craig!
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Love it ! Anglo Brit supremacists inhabit too many jobs in sports media. They tend to get away with jabbering away among themselves but fail badly when a real alternative drops in among them and dishes out some firm stopping tackles. Hope to see him again soon.
Good on you, Craig. Incredibly condescending
Legend, nice one Bellers.
I thought it was a good exchange. Bellamy’s response seemed really measured and well thought out, and not emotionally getting his hackles up – there is a bit of a footballing brain going on with him I reckon. I think it’s another example of the symptom we have on thie island of our lopsided geography/geopolitics, along with a shared media. I don’t think that the presenter was setting out to be deliberately belittling or condescending: when the focus is inevitably, for the most part, on England as the larger constituent nation (larger in population base, resources, and achievement over the… Read more »