October 10 – Sergeant Wilko Takes Charge and Bellamy in the Dock

An underwhelming managerial appointment and one of football’s badboys keeping the authorities busy in today’s round up.

2006 – Bellamy in the Dock

OCCASIONALLY the worlds of football and criminal prosecutions converge, and when they do, either Joey Barton or Craig Bellamy are usually involved.

Today we are focusing on the Welsh wonder who was due to appear in court on this day in 2006. The striker who trained at the Robbie Savage school of being a hated footballer, was accused of bringing a little bit of his famed mouth to the streets of Cardiff and he was charged with assaulting Sophie Palmer, 19, and Holly Smith, 20, in the Number 10 night club in Cardiff in February 2006. Click here for the whole story.

2002 – Sergeant Wilko Takes Charge

SO you’re two months into the season and your club’s languishing in the relegation zone having made a dismal start. The manager’s got to go, so who do you bring in? How about the last Englishman to land the title, who’s also the only man to manage the England side twice and the one that the FA had installed as their technical director? This was the logic that Sunderland Chairman Bob Murray showed today in 2002, when he gave Howard Wilkinson the reigns of his club. How could it fail? Er… Click here and find out.

When he’s good he’s good, but when he’s bad…