{"id":789174,"date":"2026-10-02T02:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789174\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T02:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:14:09","slug":"nations-league-craig-bellamy-speaks-out-over-abuse-after-norway-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789174\/","title":{"rendered":"Nations League: Craig Bellamy speaks out over abuse after Norway triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Wales striker Bellamy, who was appointed national boss in July 2024, faced criticism from some fans after holding talks over a potential move to Burnley in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a lengthy news conference after the Norway triumph, he said he feels people &#8220;could be kinder to each other&#8221; after revealing the negativity aimed at him had also affected his family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not me but I have kids and a wife; it&#8217;s for them &#8211; they see it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve lived in this environment and I had it as a player, but I think there&#8217;s ways we can speak to people, and just because it&#8217;s the game we love, it doesn&#8217;t give us the right to think we can say whatever we want to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re such a small country, I&#8217;m like&#8230; why can&#8217;t we have each other&#8217;s backs? Why don&#8217;t we look after each other more? Maybe that&#8217;s me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m not saying everyone&#8217;s above criticism, far from it. But I think it&#8217;s too easy, and we&#8217;re too quick.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Wales striker Bellamy, who was appointed national boss in July 2024, faced criticism from some fans after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-789174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}