Razzle 12:53 Thu May 6
Andy Carroll
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Former England international Andy Carroll, 32, is set to leave Newcastle United at the end of the season after becoming frustrated at his lack of playing time. (Times - subscription required)
Oh the irony......
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Sir Alf
12:24 Sat May 8
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Plays regularly he will get injured badly a lot
This season had few minutes so hardly injured
Lower level for him now and I see him retired in the next 18 months. His career at the top ended a few years back with us really. The injury after he got that overhead kick wonder goal just about finished him off at the very top. He just cannot get the aerial height he once had when he leapt for the ball. The fact that he led with his arms and that is now outlawed too doesn’t help.
In a word he’s finished at the top of the game
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Far Cough
12:07 Sat May 8
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My theory of Andy Carroll is, he looks as if he's flat footed, which puts a terrible strain on joints and ligaments, should run off of his toes and not his size 15s flat feet
Good in the air though
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southbankbornnbred
11:07 Sat May 8
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Hahaha!
He’s a Geordie, Alfs, not someone with a brain condition!
Mind you, now you mention it...
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Alfs
3:12 Sat May 8
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He took the piss and didn't look after himself It's the difference between the greats and the has-beens. Look at Ronaldo. Looks of a model, a choice of any woman or gay man on the planet, earning a gazillion pounds a week, yet looks after himself impeccably and still trains like a Trojan.
Carroll went the other way with his ""I'm made fre leif an divvent hev te dee fuck aal other than play the odd footie match noo an agyen" attitude.
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ChesterRd
2:55 Sat May 8
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Look Newcastle put him on a pay per play deal, we were stuck with shelling out millions for 5 years. I don't know what point you are trying to make, but mine is Newcastle were not taken to the cleaners, West Ham were. I'm not blaming the owners, never even mentioned them. I am blaming the player.
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ParadiseLost
2:32 Sat May 8
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Chesterrd when we bought Carroll, although hardly injury free it did seem as if he was fit enough to play an appropriate number of games for us over his contract. That did not work out.
When Newcastle subsequently signed him they knew, given our experience with him that he was unlikely to be fit for long periods.
Many in here believe our owners make the worst decisions in the world. That’s not true. Sometimes other teams make even more unfathomable decisions than us. Presumably Ashley saw the second coming of Carroll something that might appease the Toon Army. Cheaply.
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gph
2:22 Sat May 8
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What could our lot threaten Carroll with if he kicked up a fuss, compared with what the Russian mafia could?
Carroll just laughed at the threat of being beaten up by porno actors wielding dildos...
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ChesterRd
2:16 Sat May 8
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Chelsea are very much the exception to the rule when it came to outing Mutu.
If Carroll had worked hard, trained properly and lived like a professional athlete rather than a navvy down Bigg Market on a Saturday night he would have had the core strength required for his style of play.
Have to laugh at the comment from someone claiming Newcastle got done over more than West Ham. If only
As long as it's nowhere near West Ham don't care where he ends up.
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eswing hammer
5:20 Fri May 7
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Call me naive but l never believed a lot of those rumours about him , when l used to say it people would say ‘no ,he was ,l was in the same nightclub and my mate saw him blah ,bla
h .. ‘ my answer to that is always ,West Ham are not completely stupid , they would have heard the same rumours, they are paying him millions , so surely they would pull him in and test him ‘,Chelsea had a player doing it , they tested him , proved positive, sacked him and made him pay his transfer fee back (15m? ) it bankrupt him . So personally l don’t believe some of these stories about him but then again l wouldn’t have a clue about hiding something that’s in your system , look at Rio Ferdinand he got six months ban just for not having a test .
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Huffers
4:02 Fri May 7
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He went off injured on his debut vs Fulham.
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southbankbornnbred
3:16 Fri May 7
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In broad terms, I think you're right Sven. He probably hobbled off once or twice.
But more ofte he would often play a game, maybe even bag a decent headed goal, and then a few days later we'd be reading about how he had ankle knack again and would be out for four months.
For whatever reason, his body just couldn't take it. I guess only the medical, coaching and playing staff inside the club will really know what lay behind it. I've read a lot of stuff about his supposed 'lifestyle' off the pitch and lack of motivation to get himself fully fit etc., but I have little idea whether it is true or not.
A lot of that is always 'bloke down the pub said he once saw him down the pub necking Guinness like it was water while balancing on crutches made out of the bones of old defenders...'
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Sven Roeder
2:59 Fri May 7
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Am I wrong in saying that none of his endless injuries appeared to occur in a match situation resulting in him being stretchered off?
I may be
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zico
2:51 Fri May 7
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Agree that he didn't help himself with his lifestyle, but I suspect a lot of those injuries wouldn't have affected other players as much who played a different role. His strength was in the air and his ankles probably couldn't take all the jumping and landing.
Players in years gone by would probably have played on regardless. You read about some of the injuries players played with or through back in the "good old days" or after only a couple of weeks out, although I suspect many are suffering from that now. I read that Bobby Ferguson has to click his neck back into place every 20 minutes after landing on his head back in the 70's. It took something bad to end a players career as well. Not sure which Hammer it was but they did a slide tackle in training at Chadwell Heath and his knee went over an old tennis net stump which was buried in the ground but had come slightly through after a lot of rain. I winced myself when I read that!
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Sven Roeder
2:40 Fri May 7
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Think it was a game at Arsenal that summed him up.
He wanted to come off at half time due to 'injury' and we were told the physio and doctor couldnt understand what this injury was.
Was just exasperating most of the time as he had endless injuries and seemed incapable of recovering from them.
Cant recall ever seeing him carried off in a game due to a tackle or collision. Seemed always to get injured at other times.
Blighted our club because we were paying £90k a week for someone who managed about 12 games a season which meant we couldnt finance a proper playing replacement
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Hermit Road
2:23 Fri May 7
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I hope he’s got a good financial advisor. The upkeep of Rod Stewart’s old gaff must cost a fortune. Going to stretch a rapidly deteriorating weekly wage packet
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Admiral Lard
12:29 Fri May 7
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the master of his own downfall. In his younger life his lifestyle worried all who managed him.
Not quite Gazzer but never took care of himself and paid the price.
He'll end up skint and sleeping in a skip by 50
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Chigwell
11:58 Fri May 7
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It may have been injuries which triggered his decline, but he seemed to offer no fight to get himself off the treatment table. I remember Jamie Vardy breaking a bone in his leg one season during the period Carroll was supposedly injured, and returning to the Leicester first team later the same season. That spoke a lot about their respective self-discipline and motivation.
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Tomshardware
8:10 Thu May 6
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Was a very good player when fit but injuries blighted his career.
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nychammer
7:57 Thu May 6
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you know i thought he'd go there and bang in a dozen goals a season and we'd be regretting letting him go. Happy to see that wasn't the case but sad to see his career falter. On his day unplayable, just those days are too few and far between.
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Mace66
6:01 Thu May 6
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= come and get me Fat Sam
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