There's only one Andy Carroll, and he's ours...

Guest writer Ryan McCarthy launches an impassioned defence of under-fire Liverpool striker Andy Carroll, charting his career from his start at Newcastle, through his loan period at Preston North End and then onto the heady heights of Anfield.

The day was almost over when the silver Mercedes pulled past the throng of fans paying homage at the entrance to Melwood, many of them long past bedtime on a January school night, transporting their newest hero, a purchase that had - even in the final hours of the final transfer day - caused surprise among the nation's football journalists, Geordies and hardened Kopites.

Read the full article at Liverpool Kop.

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