Craig Bellamy’s Wales tenure vows to never bore after authoritative start

Craig Bellamy’s Wales tenure vows to never bore after authoritative start

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Craig Bellamy’s body of work as a manager may contain only 100 minutes of action, tantamount to a mid-morning omnibus edition of EastEnders or Emmerdale, but the early signs suggest his journey in charge of Wales is a soap opera worth watching.

A sodden Friday evening offered a night of great promise in Cardiff, a communal transmission of a much-needed new energy. There was no grand pre-match introduction for Bellamy, who instead let his players broadcast the beginning of this exciting new story; much the same team but, as promised, a radical shift in style. They attacked in a kind of 2-3-5, not 3-5-2.

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