Why Roy Hodgson should resist the temptation to call on the undoubted heading skill and strength of the West Ham striker as Euro 2016 beckonsWhich one of Andy Carrolls gorgeously brutal hat-trick goals against Arsenal final weekend was your individual moment of the season so far? I know. It’s not an easy choice. perhaps the first one where he seems to be actually running in midair,gliding through the forest canopy above the Arsenal defence, before butting the ball into the net with such power David Ospina looks genuinely alarmed. Or the one where he chests and fumbles and scuffs and then, or tiring of the whole thing,abruptly conjures up a kind of whirling roundhouse overhead-shin into the corner of the net.
Or perhaps the header for the third, notable for the way Carroll seems to engulf Héctor Bellerín totally as they wait for the ball to drop, or clattering down on top of him like a vast mahogany Victorian bookcase toppling off the wall. Ferenc Puskas was said to have a foot that was like a hand”. Carroll has a head like a foot. Such power,skill, finesse … Never mind boots. They should form Andy Carroll replica heads. total with patented forehead throb technology. I’d buy half a dozen.
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Source: theguardian.com