Howard Webb says Craig Bellamy toughest player to handle

Howard Webb quoted in The Independent:

“I think the Premier League player who gave me the most grief would be Craig Bellamy. I struggled to gain a rapport with Craig. Again… a great footballer, he might be a lovely kid away from the game, but on the pitch he was always quick with an opinion and didn’t always want to listen to yours so much.

“There were other players who you might think fall into that category, people like Joey Barton or Robbie Savage who wore their heart on their sleeve, who would give an opinion, but [they] would actually enter into some dialogue with you and I found that quite healthy and was quite happy to referee those type of characters.”