Another Quiet Mid Season Break For Liverpool [image: Liverpool Football Club badge]When news broke over the weekend of the loutish behaviour displayed by some of Liverpool Football Club<http://worldsoccer.about.com/od/englishpremiership/p/liverpoolfc.htm>'s senior players while on a mid season break in Portugal there was little surprise at some of the names of the main culprits involved.
John Arne Riise's run in with Craig Bellamy at a karaoke bar supposedly turned from a near brawl into a midnight game of kneecap golf as Bellamy burst into the Norwegian's hotel room brandishing a golf club and threatening to do untold damage to his teammate's legs. Reports that he had actually struck the defender with the club have since been denied but that won't be the end of the matter for either player with Bellamy's neck (or lack thereof) on the summer transfer chopping block. Reliving his "Spice Boy" glory days of the mid 1990s was old stager Robbie Fowler who, despite having seemed to calm down in his older age, still managed to go on a rampage of his own with former jailbird Jermaine Pennant and reserve goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek in their Portuguese resort and were only brought under control by several van loads of armed Portuguese riot police. The heavily inebriated Dudek had tried to start a brawl with one of the policemen he came into contact with and after being subdued reportedly kept telling the bastion of law and order how much he loved him in an effort to avoid to being arrested. Barely a fortnight after Liverpool<http://worldsoccer.about.com/od/englishpremiership/p/liverpoolfc.htm>'s new American owners took charge, manager Rafa Benitez has had to go on bended knee and apologise to them for the antics of their overpaid "superstars" and has swiftly dished out internal punishments totalling hundreds of thousands of pounds in fines. For some it's only the tip of the iceberg though as they face an uncertain future at the club and are in real danger of being discarded completely come the summer transfer window. Monday February 19, 2007 | comments (0)<javascript:zpu(519,'http://worldsoccer.wpadmin.about.com/?comments_popup=70',400,550)> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
