Andy Carroll - Best Striker in the World

[wiw]

That pass in the 92nd minute when we defended a cross into our box was fantastic. I thought he was lining up to volley it downfield but instead played a great ball out wide to his right.

With some luck he could have had a hattrick. The boy is improving.

Couldn't help but notice he stood and admired his pass and didn't follow it up though

[Fosterbloke]

Couldn't help but notice he stood and admired his pass and didn't follow it up though

True that but it was almost Alonsoesque.

[ronanm]

That pass in the 92nd minute when we defended a cross into our box was fantastic. I thought he was lining up to volley it downfield but instead played a great ball out wide to his right.
With some luck he could have had a hattrick. The boy is improving.

me too great pass

[Exiled_red]

Maybe it's the fickleness of football speaking, but I'm really starting to believe that he is going to come good for us after those two goals last week. It's not just those goals though, his all round play has been far improved recently.

Me too

[Lecter]

Andy Carroll confident match-winning goals can settle him at Liverpool

Timely strikes against Blackburn and Everton give £35m forward belief he has finally found home on Merseyside

Andy Hunter

The Guardian, Tuesday 17 April 2012


Andy Carroll has claimed his reputation as a hard-drinking socialiser bears no relation to the reality of his monastic lifestyle in Liverpool but accepts he may never shed the public image that developed at Newcastle United.

The 23-year-old has attracted fierce criticism throughout his 15 months on Merseyside yet, in the week Damien Comolli lost his job as director of football at Liverpool partly as a consequence of agreeing excessive transfer fees, he produced his finest contributions for Kenny Dalglish's team so far: a stoppage-time winner for a side reduced to 10 men at Blackburn Rovers and the decisive goal in the FA Cup semi-final against Everton at Wembley.

Carroll credits his restored confidence with a return to Dalglish's starting lineup and believes he is also reaping the benefits of behaving more responsibly off the pitch following his £35m transfer to Anfield. Unlike his time at Newcastle, the striker has avoided any serious drink-related controversy during his Liverpool career but, with even the former England manager Fabio Capello publicly condemning his alcohol consumption, Carroll admits that reputation precedes him.

"My past is my past," said the striker. "I feel when I came to Liverpool I changed my lifestyle and everything about it and settled down. I have my girlfriend with me at home and I love it here. I am settled down now. I'll go down the street and people will say to me, 'Oh, you were in the boozer last week' but it is just rumours going round. I just laugh it off really, it is always going to happen but I just get on with it really. To be honest, I don't go out at all. I know what people say is not true, my family knows it's not true and the club knows it's not true so that is all that matters."

Carroll, who earlier this season revealed his favourite television programme was Desperate Housewives and that he owned all the DVD box sets, added: "All I do now is sit in the house with my girlfriend, chill out and watch movies. I'm on the Xbox or I'll watch TV with my girlfriend."

The Liverpool striker hopes last week, when his seventh and eighth goals of the season eased the scrutiny on Dalglish, can mark a defining moment in his Anfield career. Liverpool have not lost any of the past 10 matches that Carroll has started – winning eight and drawing two – and have not won the past eight without the centre-forward in the starting lineup – losing five and drawing three. He admits finding it more difficult to handle a substitute's role than the pressure of being the most expensive British footballer in history.

"I am confident in myself that if I am playing games I will score goals and put myself about. I cannot really do that if I am on the bench and coming on in the last 10 minutes of games," said Carroll. "It has just been difficult in terms of not playing really. I feel I have given it my best shot and what I want is to start games and put myself about like I know I can.

"To score the winner in the semi-final and get us to the final it is obviously a great feeling. Scoring against Blackburn and scoring against Everton is a great lift for me. When you play regularly you get confident and you get into the stride of things and I feel I am doing that now."

Carroll's long-term future at Liverpool was again called into question only a fortnight ago following his furious reaction to being withdrawn against his former club at St James' Park. The striker has been strongly linked with a return to Tyneside but insists his ambition is to remain part of the Liverpool team.

"I want to play for Liverpool," he stated. "I didn't come here to sit on the bench, I came here to play games and I am fully fit and I am prepared to stick at it no matter what I get off the pitch or on the pitch. I will stick at it and work my hardest. I have signed a long contract, obviously I have signed here to stay. There is a lot more for me to give and a lot more to win here. I love it here and I want to stay.

"I am a fighter. I am determined to do well here and that's why I came here. We have reached two finals. We have won one [cup] and hopefully we can win another one. No matter what people say about me I know what I am about and know what I can do. I just need to play games and I'm confident I'll score goals."

Meanwhile Liverpool's owners, John Henry and Tom Werner, are expected to return to Merseyside this week as they continue their structural overhaul of the club.

[Lecter]

I'm just a couch potato now, insists Carroll as he laughs off booze claims
By Dominic King
PUBLISHED: 22:00, 16 April 2012 | UPDATED: 00:01, 17 April 2012


Andy Carroll has spoken candidly for the first time about claims he drinks too much and insists he has dramatically changed his lifestyle since joining Liverpool.

Pointed comments from former England head coach Fabio Capello last September that Carroll ‘needed to play more and drink less’ increased the scrutiny on the 23-year-old and left many doubting whether he would fulfil his potential.

But Carroll, whose dramatic late goal against Everton secured Liverpool’s place in the FA Cup final, has rubbished the idea he is frequently socialising and maintains he has matured since leaving the North East.


‘When I came here I changed my lifestyle and everything about it and settled down,’ said the £35million striker. ‘I have my girlfriend (Stacey) with me and I love it here. I’m settled down now. I’ll go down the street and people will say to me, “Oh, you were in the boozer last week”, but it is just rumours going round. I laugh it off, really.

‘To be honest, I don’t go out at all. My family know it’s not true and the club know it’s not true, so that is all that matters.

‘All I do now (after games) is sit in the house with my girlfriend, chill out and watch movies. I’m on the Xbox or I’ll watch TV.’

The statistics back up Carroll’s assertion. He has played in 42 of Liverpool’s 45 games this season with manager Kenny Dalglish admitting they asked too much of him too soon after signing him while carrying a serious thigh injury.

‘When I signed I wasn’t fit,’ said Carroll. ‘I kept on getting niggles. I’d play one game then have to drop out again. I feel great now and I’m fully fit.’

Liverpool will look to sign a new striker in the summer but their present No 9 is in no mood to give up his place. ‘I want to play for Liverpool,’ said Carroll, who has never started more than three games in a row. ‘I didn’t come here to sit on the bench; I came here to play games.

‘I will work my hardest. I have signed a long contract and I love it and I want to stay. I’m confident that if I’m playing games I will score goals.’

Liverpool will meet Chelsea twice in four days after their Premier League clash at Anfield was rearranged for May 8. The fixture was originally due for May 5, the FA Cup final date.

Liverpool fans travelling by train for the final, which kicks off at 5.15pm, face chaos on their return journey. Network Rail confirmed engineering works on the West Coast mainline will mean supporters will not be able to get home by train on the night.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...#ixzz1sHDATwjH

[Reece]

It's excellent to read that he's an Xbox player rather than that ****ty PS3.

[Bender]

It's excellent to read that he's an Xbox player rather than that ****ty PS3.

yes the fighting in Syria has now stopped after Andy Carroll declared he is an Xbox player ....kofi annan has now returned to the UN

[Reece]

I get the impression you're mocking me here, Bender.

[Bender]

I get the impression you're mocking me here, Bender.

i'm on xbox myself ......... and ps3 fifa ....just a bit of humour Reece

[Fredo]

I get the impression you're mocking me here, Bender.

[JohnDoe]

Liverpool have not lost any of the past 10 matches that Carroll has started – winning eight and drawing two – and have not won the past eight without the centre-forward in the starting lineup – losing five and drawing three.

End of.

[baitman]

the slight re-surgence of andy's form may be that he is only now just getting over his exposure to boyzone... why would you do that to a player. piss poor man management form kenny

[Kloppster]

the slight re-surgence of andy's for may be that he is only now just getting over his exposure to boyzone... why would you do that to a player. piss poor man management form kenny

absolutely not..... he was trying to inspire him to get under some crosses.........'Flying without wings' :-)

and yeah I know you said Boyzone.... :-( ... wrong one isnt it?

[baitman]

absolutely not..... he was trying to inspire him to get under some crosses.........'Flying without wings' :-)

and yeah I know you said Boyzone.... :-( ... wrong one isnt it?

i wouldnt know, but the mrs has just confirmed
but take heart... that a man should not know the difference is no embarassment, and may be seen as a positive thing