Carroll gets ‘soft’ fine for red card

Andy Carroll will be fined around £45,000 for his red card against Burnley at the weekend.

Reports that the striker will be hit with a two week wage fine are incorrect and the Geordie’s indiscretion instead will be hit with a fine which represents a pretty lenient punishment given the severity of the crime.

There is real fury inside the London Stadium at the way Carroll decided to launch a second offence so soon after the first which had even team mate Pablo Zabaleta condemning him as ‘nasty.’

But there is a standard punishment for yellow and red cards and Carroll escaped the full ONE week wage fine which he would have received for a straight sending off.

We have learned that the standard fines written into contract amount to a week’s wages for a straight sending off and half a week for two yellows.