John Arne Riise has given another account of the infamous golf club attack by Liverpool team-mate Craig Bellamy ahead of a UEFA Champions League match in 2007, and he now says it could have ended his career.
The former Norway international explained his side of the story in 2016, per James Pearce of the Liverpool Echo: A drunk Bellamy wanted him to sing karaoke and later came to his room with a golf club, hitting him, after he refused. Now, according to his new autobiography, Running Man, Bellamy wrote things were a lot more serious than he initially suggested, per Goal:
"I woke in the dark to hear someone opening the door.