Craig Bellamy
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2,082 appearances
14 recordings
4 series
first heard Feb 2018
last heard 12 Sep
Craig Bellamy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Because the ball's coming in the box, you have a job, which is to play the ball.
It's not to play the man, right?
And that, for me, it's always been about that.
If you're saying my job is literally to mark this player and not care about where the ball is, I think that's a foul.
In another place on the pitch, that's a foul.
You can't have your back turned to the ball
And it not be deemed, you're not even playing the ball.
You could argue that if Rice is facing the other way, maybe he could defend the cross.
But I think we see a lot of this now where it's because there's a lot of crowding going on and a lot of, you know, grabbing and physical elements to it.
It's less necessarily about playing the ball and more about there's just bodies everywhere and it's complete chaos.
And how do you deal with the chaos?
I think Arsenal are very good at creating chaos and executing off the back of it.
But clearly defensively here, they got it wrong.
as they did as well for the winning goal.
And yet again, the theme for that was at the back post, Santos and Caicedo actually facing the wrong way entirely, trying to defend this.
either get some contact on the goalkeeper or not in that instance to try and get an advantage.
With Santos here, you see he's trying to get his head around, but the goalkeeper was complaining earlier on about being bumped, and he got bumped by his own teammate.
Again, it's just complete chaos in the box.
Do you agree with Patrick's point that maybe there needs to be a tweak of the rules or the laws?
I'm not sure that everyone is enjoying watching this kind of scrum on set pieces.
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