By Josh Powell | Sports writer Ok so the headline might be a little misleading. Robin van Persie has 23 goals in 38 games wearing the ‘picnic-table’ red of Manchester United so implying he isn’t prolific makes as much sense as Made In Chelsea winning a BAFTA. There is a healthy element of truth in […]
Tag Archives: Andy Carroll
GIF: Andy Carroll scores a cracker. No, this is not an early April Fools
Andy Carroll scored two goals for West Ham today. Yes, that’s the Andy Carroll Liverpool spent £35 million on and then decided to let go out on loan to Upton Park for the season, even though it meant having about one and a quarter strikers for the entire season. If you saw much of his […]
Not Big Sam: It’s too late for Andy Carroll but here’s my Christmas Party advice
Friday, 12th December, 2003. Not Big Sam sits quietly in a shadowy corner of the bar in the Holiday Inn Bolton Centre Hotel. He watches, he surveys, he analyses. His eyes widen in horror as he sees Ivan Campo having excruciatingly awkward sex with a Japanese dwarf under a table, while Bruno N’Gotty looks on, waving a French […]
Dear Deirdre and the Andy Carroll fantasy
We’re morally bankrupt enough around the Paddy Power Blog team not condemn most sexual fetishes as long it’s not hurting anyone. ‘You like to do what with the vacuum cleaner? Sure, fine – just don’t offer to hoover the office’ ‘You can only reach orgasm by listening to Victoria Beckham’s solo music? Out of your […]
Betting news: Spurs, Rodgers, Williams, Frankel
Football Premier League action returns at the weekend and Spurs face Chelsea in the early kick-off on Saturday afternoon. Andre Villas-Boas says he is relishing the challenge of facing his former club and no doubt relishing John Terry’s absence. The Blues skipper has decided not to appeal his four-match ban for racially abusing Anton Ferdinand and misses […]
San Marino are lambs to the slaughter on the handicap
By Sean Goff | World Cup 2014 qualifiers England are overwhelming favourites to beat San Marino at Wembley on Friday night (8pm) but won’t have many takers at the 1/200 on offer. But punters expecting a goal-fest in the Group H qualifier can reduce those odds in their favour by backing San Marino with a five-goal […]
Red-hot Andy has Paddy in treble with 4/1 footie punt
Expert football pundit and analyst Andy Gray struck gold for Paddy Power punters at the weekend when his 4/1 treble on Everton, Sunderland and Manchester City clicked. The TalkSPORT presenter also had Paddy on the run with Stoke to win @ 10/11 and Peter Crouch to score first @ 5/1 and Everton to win @ 4/9. […]
Betting news on Wenger, Hatton and the St. Leger
Football Despite having a trophy cabinet as empty as Michael Barrymore’s diary, Arsenal look set to keep Arsene Wenger at the club for a few years to come. The Frenchman’s contract expires in 2014, but Gunners’ chief executive Ivan Gazidis plans to offer him an extension well beyond that. “It’s not a sense of sentimentalism, […]
Morning Update: Carroll, Mario, Murray, Buick
Football Manchester City’s crocked striker Sergio Aguero could be on a collision course with Roberto Mancini after indicating he wants to play for Argentina against Peru next Tuesday according to the Sun. Aguero was injured in the opening game of the season against Southampton but Mancini gave him permission to travel to Argentina but warned […]
Is Del Piero the answer at Anfield?
Brendan Rodgers and Liverpool have had their worst start to a season for 50 years and there is an early season cloud hanging over Anfield. It’s nothing Rodgers can’t fix but when he looked to his bench in need of a striking option during Saturday’s defeat to Arsenal he was left with few options. When […]
Bromance: Proof that Andy Carroll needs Kevin Nolan
There has always appeared to be some serious bromance between Kevin Nolan and Andy Carroll on and off the field. It is reported that Nolan was a key figure in persuading Carroll to join him at West Ham and Sam Allardyce even changed his formation to accommodate the two players. The pair are known to be incredibly […]
Morning betting update: Rodgers, Owen, Murray, Nathaniel
Football Michael Owen could be in for a shock return to Anfield as Brendan Rodgers looks to bolster his beleaguered Liverpool. The former England international is now a free agent after Manchester United decided not to renew his contract and the Liverpool manager is disappointed that he was not able to replace Andy Carroll who […]
Premier League match preview: West Ham v Fulham
By Aidan Elder | Chief sports writer West Ham United v Fulham Saturday 12.45pm – Sky Sports 2 This counts are the first London Derby of the season and it arguably counts as the least interesting. That’s actually a back-handed compliment if you think about because the early signs are that both the Hammers and […]
Betting news on the Champions League, Andy Murray and Liverpool
Morning update from the Paddy Power Blog on all the latest betting moves in sport Football The draw for the group stages of the Champions League will take place at about 4.45pm today, although we’ve no idea just how many crappy montages we’ll have to sit through before they actually start the oddly long-winded process […]
Premier League betting preview: Liverpool
Liverpool Summer Summary Things have been pretty frantic around Anfield since it was confirmed Kenny Dalglish was getting the ‘thanks, but no thanks’ treatment for winning the Carling Cup. Not at all going along with the ‘who’s hot right now’ tactic that resulted in Roy Hodgson arriving at Anfield, the Reds opted for Brendan Rodgers, […]
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