Andy Carroll

[Leyton388]

**** off! I didn't see who scored for west ham yesterday so came in here expecting him to have been one of the scorers but now i see hes injured again.

Bloody hell we are never going to get rid. So we blew £18m on a injured aquilani and £35m on a injured carroll. I'd love to know how much we have wasted on injury prone **** over the past 5 years.

When it comes to transfers we must be the worst run club in the league.

[dom9]

Wait till we sign the currently injured Sturridge

[Leyton388]

The need for LFC to employ someone with football knowledge should be at the top of our recruitment list. FSG should have stuck with their structure that included an experienced director of football and if Rodgers would have turned us down based on that then so be it.

[dom9]

Is that person not Rodgers?

[Leyton388]

I mean in terms of the boardroom and a CEO.

[Gibbo]

Do West Ham have to buy him or what?

[dom9]

No they don't.

[Mattshark]

Thankfully they have Alladyce in charge who will likely make money for himself with the signing with his dodgy agent friends.

[baitman]

The need for LFC to employ someone with football knowledge should be at the top of our recruitment list. FSG should have stuck with their structure that included an experienced director of football and if Rodgers would have turned us down based on that then so be it.

[rodo]

West Ham football star Andy Carroll has been interviewed by police in Ireland after a photographer was allegedly assaulted.

The striker, on loan at the Hammers from Liverpool FC, was with team-mates in Dublin for a weekend Christmas party after beating Chelsea in the Premier League on Saturday.

Carroll, 23, denies any wrongdoing.

A spokesman for the Garda press office in Dublin said officers received a report of an incident at 2.30am yesterday.

A press photographer claimed he had been assaulted in the capital’s main shopping district, Grafton Street.

Officers at the city’s Pearse Street station are investigating the incident.

It is understood members of the West Ham football team were spoken to by gardai following reports of an assault.

No arrests were made, the Garda spokesman said.



Read more: Liverpool Echo http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liver...#ixzz2E5P6V8pe

[dom9]

No arrests. A non story then.

[danperkins]

West Ham football star Andy Carroll has been interviewed by police in Ireland after a photographer was allegedly assaulted.

The striker, on loan at the Hammers from Liverpool FC, was with team-mates in Dublin for a weekend Christmas party after beating Chelsea in the Premier League on Saturday.

Carroll, 23, denies any wrongdoing.

A spokesman for the Garda press office in Dublin said officers received a report of an incident at 2.30am yesterday.

A press photographer claimed he had been assaulted in the capital’s main shopping district, Grafton Street.

Officers at the city’s Pearse Street station are investigating the incident.

It is understood members of the West Ham football team were spoken to by gardai following reports of an assault.

No arrests were made, the Garda spokesman said.



Read more: Liverpool Echo http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liver...#ixzz2E5P6V8pe

White Suit = Hero!

[McDermotX]

I do like the way it opens with 'West Ham football star' (albeit there is a reference to us in the second line)

More of that please.

[Liverpel]

PREMIER LEAGUE footballer Andy Carroll has been accused of eye-gouging a photographer during a night out in Dublin.

The most expensive British footballer ever – thanks to his £35m move to Liverpool from Newcastle – is now being investigated by gardai following an alleged assault on freelance photographer Paddy Cummins.

Mr Cummins said Carroll (23) gouged his eye with his right hand as he lay on the street.

Carroll – currently on loan at West Ham – was in Dublin with team-mates on Sunday night.

He was pictured at various locations wearing a white suit and white loafers.

The incident occurred at 2.30am on Grafton Street.

Mr Cummins said he received treatment at Dublin’s Eye & Ear hospital and is now on a course of antibiotics.

He has a scratch on his eyeball and a burst blood vessel.

He was working on Grafton Street in the early hours of Monday morning when he saw Carroll enter a fast food outlet.

“A West Ham security guard came over to me and asked me not to take photographs.

“I told him I was just doing my job, but when I moved, he blocked my view,” Mr Cummins said.

The security guard asked him to wait until the footballer was in a rickshaw, parked outside Burger King on Grafton Street, before taking any images.

Mr Cummins changed his lens when Carroll got into the rickshaw.

“Once I started taking shots, he got out of rickshaw and just went at me.

“I remember him saying, ‘Get the camera’. I went backwards and I was over on the far side of the street. There was at least one security guard between me and him at that point.

“Next thing I was on my back on the ground next to Burger King and he was still grabbing for my camera.

“I could feel his hand coming across my face, and his fingers digging into my eye. I started screaming, ‘My eyes, my eyes’.”

At this stage the footballer left the scene and a West Ham security guard remained.

“I could hear security men saying ‘Get him out, get him out’, and one of security guys stood over me.

“Somebody asked him what happened, and he said I dived to the ground. But I told him there was CCTV all over the place and it will show that I didn’t dive.”

A West Ham spokesman denied that Carroll had been involved in a physical confrontation with a photographer.

“Andy Carroll was in Dublin as part of a social trip,” the club said.

“Andy agreed to have a number of pictures taken. Despite this, the photographer then carried on taking photos and was politely asked to stop by the private security team.

“When he then continued taking more photos he was restrained by the security team for Andy's safety.”

Gardai have confirmed that the footballer is under investigation following the alleged incident.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/premiership-star-andy-carroll-accused-of-gouging-photographer-in-eye-during-dublin-party-night-3315602.html#disqus_thread

[dom9]

I have little sympathy for the photographer.