Oliver Holt, The Mirror 20/03/2026 7comments  |  Jump to last

In the Mirror's final extract from his new autobiography, Craig Bellamy describes how he was put off by seeing two very different sides of David Moyes...

I met David Moyes at the Celtic Manor hotel just outside Newport after my loan spell at Celtic from Newcastle had finished in the summer of 2005.

I really enjoyed talking to him. I always liked the way Everton played under him. I love their work ethic and their attitude. Moyes was very persuasive.

I felt a bid odd about the prospect of joining them because I had been a committed Liverpool fan since I was a kid, but he sold me on Everton.

I agreed terms and went up to meet Moyes again, this time at his house near Preston. I took my suitcase with me, so I could move into a hotel that night after I had signed and start pre-season training the next day.

But when I got there, I could tell straight away that something had changed. It was like talking to a different bloke. He seemed tense and hostile.

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John Collins
1 Posted 20/03/2026 at 10:19:32
I would have liked to see Bellamy playing for us, Ian.
Ian Bennett
2 Posted 20/03/2026 at 10:41:57
I am a taff John, I know all about Bellamy.

He's a winner if you can channel him right and keep him on the pitch. But a lot of work.

Kevin Molloy
3 Posted 20/03/2026 at 10:43:18
One of the funniest moments I've had at a game was watching a very young Bellamy playing for Coventry in a midweek game. He was already dynamite, and whenever he got the ball he would be haring down the line.

I remember this lad behind me, the fifth time he was speeding towards our goal, shouting in a panicked voice 'Close him down, Unsworth!!' as the 33-year-old Unsy was struggling to make his little legs go faster.

Tony Abrahams
4 Posted 20/03/2026 at 14:40:35
I remember Craig Bellamy driving his car beside me; when I asked him to put his window down, he just arrogantly ignored me. I eventually got him to put his window down, and when he did, I told him he had joined the wrong club.

"I was honestly very interested in signing for Everton," he said, "until I got to the meeting and had to listen to David Moyes, mostly talking all about himself."

Kieran Kinsella
5 Posted 20/03/2026 at 14:48:28
This is embarrassing.

So Moyes had somehow been blissfully unaware of Bellamy's various arrests while at Newcastle, his ill discipline and generally scandalous behavior until someone gave him a heads up after he'd already convinced Bellamy to sign up?

Steve Brown
6 Posted 20/03/2026 at 15:05:48
This episode describes Moyes quite well - as dim-witted as he is self-regarding and stubborn.

John Collins
7 Posted 20/03/2026 at 15:06:39
Sarn't Major Moyes

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