Another cock up from the drunken Scotsman!

The news scene seems to be dominated today by former manager Kenny Dalglish telling us exactly why Andy Carroll will get abuse from the travelling Toon Army on Sunday.

This is, much like Dalglish always seems to be with NUFC, he is wrong in his assumption. He claims that Carroll, if he plays, should take the inevitable abuse as a compliment as it means that us Newcastle fans miss him as a player.

Now we do miss him as a player, don't get me wrong, but the vast majority of the abuse won't be because of that and will instead be because of the crap that we were fed by Carroll himself.

Naturally that has been avoided by the drunken Scot and in turn by the press who seem to believe that Dalgish craps golden eggs such is the notice that they take of him. When Dalglish speaks they listen. Others try to listen. Whatever, he has got it all wrong with Carroll.

I don't think many fans will doubt that Carroll is a good player. A £35 million, £80,000-a-week player? Probably not, but he was coming along nicely at his hometown club, you know, the one he supported as a boy and so on.

He even done well enough to earn the coveted number nine shirt, the shirt of his heroes, the shirt that he dreamed of wearing as a boy, the shirt that made him the happiest man alive when he was awarded it by Chris Hughton at the start of the season.

He thrived on it and scored some good goals for us which in turn earned him an England call up. He signed a new five-year deal at the club and reiterated how happy he was and he would love to spend his entire career at St James' Park being idolised by his people. Incidentally, these same people continuously overlooked incidents of bad behaviour and off-field trouble. After all, we look after our own.

Then, just 12 weeks later, Carroll broke the hearts of those fans who had backed him, stuck up for him, watched him grow as a player, when he handed in a transfer request on transfer deadline day leaving us with little time to act in the transfer market. He claims he was pushed out the door, which I find hard to believe. I mean did they force him to write out a transfer request? Did they bully the 6ft 3in Geordie who has a history of flying off the handle? Hmm....

All the words meant nothing to Carroll. All of those statements he made meant nothing when it come to the crunch. Granted he left for more money, and I can't really blame him for that, but I can when he was assured that a new deal would have been sorted for him in the summer.

Just three months after being the happiest man alive he couldn't wait to get out the door and throw in all his dreams for a few more sheckles. He couldn't wait four months longer to renegotiate at the club he claimed to love. He is just another money-grabbing footballer who is not fit to lace Alan Shearer's - the man he wanted to replicate - boots.

That is why he'll get the abuse Kenny!