The time Craig Bellamy attacked John Arne Riise with a golf club

In the pantheon of Premier League madmen, Craig Bellamy ranks up there with the best.

The Welsh hitman once lobbed a chair at Newcastle assistant manager John Carver when the coach confronted him for nicking his parking space.

On another occasion, Craig turned his rage on club legend Alan Shearer, sending him a string of abusive text messages:

“Your legs have gone, you're too old and too slow. You couldn't even kiss my arse,” he told his captain, before doubling down with a foul-mouthed voicemail tirade in which he branded Shearer “a fucking goody two shoes”.

But none of Craig’s hotheaded feats compare to the revenge he took on John Arne Riise for missing the Liverpool Christmas party.

Before a Champions’ League tie against Barcelona at the Nou Camp, it emerged Riise had faked a trip to Norway to skip the festive do. As a punishment, the redhead defender had to sing a song in front of the team, but the uptight Norwegian refused to comply.

“I was like ‘you've got to sing”, Bellamy recalled, “but he was refusing so in my head was like ‘I've had enough of you, no you're singing’.

“He came back at me like ‘no I ain't singing, now fucking mind your own business’."

According to Bellamy, Riise had also been caught cheating on the golf course that morning, and as night fell, Craig decided to pay his teammate a visit.

"I got my club, and went to his room”, Bellamy later explained. “The door was on the latch, so I rolled in and he's in bed. I smacked him across the legs and said ‘you ever speak to me like that in front of anyone, I will put this round your head’.”

Bellamy was stumped with a £50,000 fine for assaulting his teammate, but the Welshman had the last laugh against Barca.

After going a goal down early on, Bellamy equalised, performing his now iconic celebration, swinging an imaginary golf club.

After an edgy game, the Welsh striker teed up none other than John Arne Riise for a 74th minute winner, sending Liverpool through on away goals.