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Craig Bellamy has been branded 'a big puppy' by a former Liverpool team mate who has claimed the Welshmen wouldn't back up his 'screaming and shouting' if you stood up to him.

John Arne Riise, a Champions League winner with the Anfield giants in 2005, has revealed details of the famous incident between him and Bellamy involving a golf club while the club were on a training camp in Portugal in 2007.

In a new autobiography entitled Running Man, Riise recalled how Bellamy burst into his room with the golf club and launched an attack, something the former Cardiff City star admitted in his own book was 'pathetic, drunken and bullying' behaviour.

In an article in the Daily Mail Norwegian Riise said: "I just wanted him to think twice, go back to his room and then we can meet up in the morning and finish it off properly.

"I was ready to do that but he didn’t show.

"He was strange as he was cocky and confident and loud — screaming and shouting in training — but if you stood up to him he was like a big puppy.

"I remember Fulham versus Liverpool and Clint Dempsey said something to Craig and he s*** his pants. Bellamy is complicated and I don’t know much about it. So I can forgive but I don’t forget.

"If he had hit me in his first stroke… if he had hit my shins I would have been done."

Riise added that Bellamy's decision to celebrate a Champions League goal scored at Barcelona shortly after the Portugal flashpoint by swinging an imaginary golf club, was not appreciated.

"It was the most annoying thing for me that he did it," Riise said.

"It was disrespecting me."