Andy Carroll, Defensive Pairings, and Other Wednesday Notes

This is what you get when you Google "Steven Gerrard sunglasses."
The reasons for doing so may not be illuminated in the end.

There's just so, so much potential out there today. A European home leg coming up, the second leg of the first elimination round, tied nil-nil. A soft, vulnerable West Ham on the weekend, a side that even under Roy Hodgson Liverpool blew the doors off back in the fall.

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