Candy Carroll

I'm glad that you agree that the man who accused Carroll of assaulting him was out of order throwing his drink first at Carroll's female friend.

 

Where did I say he was innocent in every case? I feel you're creating a straw man here just to try make some sort of point.

 

I think you're reading something into that, that isn't there.

 

His departure has proved to be a better and better deal as time has passed

 

Anybody else find it ironic that here we have a Bin Dipper defending their current player Carroll for his actions whilst he actually played for us.

Yet at the time he committed them we were flooded with comments from the Scouse Larcenists laughing at us for employing such a thug.

A case of selective ethics maybe?

 

The charges for assault were dropped, what else does he have to do to prove that he didn't glass the man in the bar/pub/club?

I only commented once about Carroll on 606, that was to say that he would be a good option to have in the squad and to partner Fernando Torres, which was on the Liverpool board. Not once did I laugh or make a comment about him being a supposed thug.

 

i think your right on the button there

 

Not do it

 

He could have just walked away

 

Andy's no shrinking violet.

 

They weren't actually, he was charged with assault & pleaded guilty to common assault. The only charge that was dropped was assault occasioning actual bodily harm, purely because he pleaded guilty to common assault. These kinds of deals happen in courts up and down the country all the time - defense lawyers will often get a client to plead guilty on a lesser charge so that the court will drop the heavier charges against them.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-11620004
He was also arrested in 2008 for another assault (of another woman incidentally) prior to the one mentioned above and accepted a police caution:
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK...or-Assaulting-A-Woman/Article/200809315103943

Also I take it you believe courts are infallible?
The trial was in Newcastle crown court with a jury from Newcastle whilst he was donning the most prestigious shirt number for Newcastle United, the number 9. You try and find a native Geordie who doesn't follow football in the city!
It's all we ever talk about nigh on 24/7, everyone has an opinion. That's why some players can't hack it here for example, Jermaine Jenas who called the city a goldfish bowl because he was constantly getting stopped to speak about football.

Anyway why do you care what a bunch of Toon fans think on an internet forum of a former player? It's admirable that you're defending a player for crimes he committed whilst at a different club, but you can't deny he's the modern Duncan Ferguson!

 

The thing is, people can mistake "beaten up" or "assaulted" for losing a fight and then claiming you were the victim.

 

Carroll is still a young man of 22 and yet he already has a list of convictions, cautions or alleged incidents of assault against his name that is longer than any ten of my mates combined and yet there is an argument being put forward that the guy isn't a thug!

You'll be telling us Jordan isn't a slapper next and FIFA isn't corrupt.

 

I think there's more than what the press are saying. It's really annoying how these days someone can work themselves and start attacking you, and if you fight back and do more damage the person that started the fight is classed as the victim and you get done for it.

 

If it was a deliberate assault he would've seen jailtime. It wasn't though, he was slapped on the wrist for being reckless but nothing more serious than that. It was nothing more than handbags, if Andy Carroll wasn't involved I wonder if the thing would've even gone to court? I doubt it.

A very vague article there, it says nothing of the damage on the woman (if there even was), it says nothing of what happened in the incident and it says nothing of what Carroll actually did. Doesn't seem like much happened there to me.

No, of course not, but they're a damn sight more reliable than random people off a forum who don't know all the details of the case.

They could easily be Sunderland fans.

 

Come on man, the glass "slipped out his hand and smashed in the bloke's face".

She struck him so he hit her "repeatedly" as the court said. But it's OK, he had a mark (bless). Oh and he brought a couple of lasses back to the house where the mother of his baby lived, which is probably why she was upset with him.

Taylor was in crutches at the time.

 

Nah, they'd be too busy queuing for the new strip to be released, or at the pub for the match

 

is any one actually surprised that he is tool and he gets involved in this ****

 

I was pushing my luck with that last one to be fair.

 

Yeah there was no real statement from the club but you have to wonder why Taylor would have been at training if we was in crutches. Wonder what actually happened with that one.