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Stat attack: Carroll’s hat-trick ‘surprise’

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andy-carroll-goals-hat-trick-west-ham-arsenal-1460207136-800Andy Carroll was entirely laid back about his hat-trick when interviewed after the game yesterday.

It was a brilliant show of self restraint as in fact this was only the second of his 10 year career – the other one coming asa Newcastle payer.

It came in the second game of the season of the 2o10/11 season when as a Newcastle player he ht the Aston Villa on a Monday night as the team trounced the midlanders 6-0 at St James’ Park.

In that season he finished with 14 goals but yesterday’s expoits were enough to have every pundit attempting to resurrect his Euro 2016 chances.

David Gold was among them saying: “There’s a lot of players of the same type in the current England squad so of Roy Hodgson is going to take another it should be Andy.

“He brings something entirely different – why take more of the same. I think the big man can do a job for England.”

AC however, despite his delight at the three goals, said: “I must keep England at the back of my head. It’s about doing it every week for West Ham.”

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Hugh Southon is a lifelong Iron and the founding editor of ClaretandHugh. He is a national newspaper journalist of many years experience and was Bobby Moore's 'ghost' writer during the great man's lifetime. He describes ClaretandHugh as "the Hammers daily newspaper!"

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  • bubs says:

    Worth every penny that season ticket this year Tyson,
    Must have been a day to remember yesterday,
    Slowly the Gooners and Wenger are waking up to the fact we are a better team and we were not lucky then the Spuds do us a favour but don’t gain on Leicester
    Shame we have to beat Leicester to give the others a chance

  • mattefumi27 says:

    ahah, yes Exile, I miss him like I’d miss breathing… lol

  • West Ham Exile says:

    Lol,I think you are missing the Monkeys Bellend still Matte 😉

  • mattefumi27 says:

    ahah.. a healthy stat never hurts… the stuff of life… lol 😀

  • West Ham Exile says:

    Ha,thought I had stumbled on to Wetpants by mistake when I saw the term ‘Stat’.Hope their very own statistician Mr.Stat Pack doesn’t get the ‘ump 🙂

  • TysonM says:

    Can’t beat a good Stat Attack on a Sunday,lol.Ban the Stats 🙂

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