Craig Bellamy’s Wales tenure vows to never bore after authoritative start
New head coach captured imagination of the faithful with the style and spirit against Turkey. Now for Montenegro
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.
