{"id":190853,"date":"2025-10-05T04:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T04:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/190853\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T04:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T04:23:11","slug":"england-v-wales-craig-bellamys-side-proving-there-is-life-after-gareth-bale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/190853\/","title":{"rendered":"England v Wales: Craig Bellamy&#8217;s side proving there is life after Gareth Bale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is nearly three years since Gareth Bale brought the curtain down on his glittering Wales career at the 2022 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He bowed out after a 3-0 defeat by England in Qatar, with many predicting Wales would go back to the doldrums without their most-capped player and goalscorer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Wales boss Craig Bellamy is out to prove the Bale doom-mongers wrong, having lost only two of his 12 games in charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was told before [being appointed] that it was all falling off a cliff. The king [Bale] has gone,&#8221; said Bellamy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But I only saw it as like, &#8216;no, there&#8217;s a lot of good players here&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Wait until the next couple of years, this machine&#8217;s going to get stronger.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is nearly three years since Gareth Bale brought the curtain down on his glittering Wales career at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-190853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}