All this ‘Carroll for England’ talk is a bit premature.
Posted on August 28th, 2010 | 129 Comments |
We have seen glimpses of that already this season. Even if you take out the three goals he scored against Aston Villa, you can still see that there has been an all-round improvement in his game.
As a striker, he will inevitably get judged on how many goals he scores, and what better way to grab the headlines than scoring a Premier League hat-trick? Andy Carroll’s exploits of last weekend seem to have caught the attention of the press, with the result being that Carroll is now being thrust around as England’s next great thing, a saviour, a shining beacon of a new era for the national team. Haddaway man!
In our opening game of the season, nobody wanted to know who Andy Carroll was. He didn’t score in that game, so all the roughing up of one of the best defenders in the Premier League, all the running, fine hold-up play and excellent distribution was overlooked. In fact that big fat hairy oaf, Martin Samuel even went as far as suggesting that Andy Carroll had blown his chance in the Premier League after that one game, which is quite frankly ridiculous.
Fast forward a week or so later, and now Carroll is the toast of the nation, the centre of attention because he scored a hat-trick, and rightly so. But much like it was too premature for Martin Samuel to write the lad off, it is also too premature for people to be touting Carroll for England at this early stage in his career.
Don’t get me wrong, and to pen a cliche, if he is good enough then he is old enough, but that time will come when it comes, and not on the say so of the media. It wouldn’t happen as the bandwagon is in full swing, but I feel that they should lay off Carroll and let him go about improving his game week in and week out in the Premier League first.
Carrol still has plenty of time to play for England, and plenty of time to prove that he deserves to be playing for England. I think all of this mass hysteria on the back of one or two games is going a bit too far in all honesty. I mean if he doesn’t score today then I have no doubt he will be written off again in the Sunday papers.
There lies part of the problem though. The media build things up to a level so they can knock them down at a later date. I’m pleased, ecstatic, that Andy Carroll is getting talked about for his performances on the pitch, but I feel a little, or maybe a lot, of perspective is needed.
Give Carroll time and he will prove he is good enough!
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Who Knows,he might decide not to play for england and instead for Scotland? :lol: