'I 恐れるd for my life. It was 25 minutes 存在 chased by two people on bikes pulling guns out': Newcastle's Andy Carroll opens up on 存在 追求するd by 武装した robbers and 明らかにする／漏らすs why he 手配中の，お尋ね者 to 'FAIL' 医療の at Liverpool
- Andy Carroll 内密に 手配中の，お尋ね者 to fail his 医療の before joining Liverpool
- The Newcastle-born striker was 気が進まない to leave his boyhood club in 2011?
- The Englishman has 耐えるd a 失望させるing career beset by 非常に／多数の 傷害s
- Carroll, 30, 解任するs 存在 chased from West Ham training by 武装した robbers
- The 6ft 4in big man now wants to 勝利，勝つ the hearts and minds of Newcastle fans?
Andy Carroll has a 自白 to make. He takes us 支援する to the ヘリコプター ride between Newcastle and Liverpool on January 31, 2011 and the hours before 完全にするing his British 記録，記録的な／記録する £35million 移転.
'Do you know what,' he begins, 'I was 負傷させるd at the time, and all I'm thinking is, "Please, just fail the 医療の".'
This is not, he 強調する／ストレスs, a reflection on Liverpool, it could have been any club.
'The minute I got on that ヘリコプター I 手配中の，お尋ね者 to come 支援する. I knew it had to happen. Whatever age, I needed to walk 支援する on that pitch and play for Newcastle again.
Andy Carroll always felt as though he would one day make a return to his boyhood club
The striker said goodbye to Newcastle 部隊d in a £35million move to Liverpool in 2011
'I remember leaving here (Newcastle's training ground) in Kevin Nolan's car because 負担s of people were outside. We went to his house and watched it on TV. I was like, "I'm not going". I'd just bought a house, and a cat the day before!
'But then I was told, "You're going", and that was that.'
Newcastle owner マイク Ashley had 35million 推論する／理由s to tell the hometown hero he was off.
'Listen, I would have rather stayed at the time and all the way to the ヘリコプター I'm thinking, "What is happening? What am I doing?". But looking 支援する, and how it 形態／調整d me as a player and a person, I would honestly still do it. I probably needed to get out of the city to grow up.'
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As a person, 承認する. But as a player? Sportsmail 同意しないs. Carroll in a Newcastle shirt was a superhero ― a ponytailed, hair-raising menace who would 破産した／（警察が）手入れする noses and 逮捕するs. 'It feels good to hear that,' he says. 'It's why I didn't want to go. Up here, I always felt good about myself playing. Now I'm 支援する, I have that same feeling.'
Does he know how many goals he 得点する／非難する／２０d in 2010? 'Twenty?'. It was 26. He hasn't 攻撃する，衝突する 二塁打 人物／姿／数字s in a calendar year since.
He made his England debut, the first of nine caps and two goals. A quick aside, is that a point of pride or 悔いる? 'No 悔いる. If it wasn't for 傷害s maybe I'd still be there. A lot of good players don't get any caps.
'But yeah, it was the best year of my career, 傷害-解放する／自由な. It was one year though. I never saw the last 10 years going the way they have ― I 手配中の，お尋ね者 to 達成する more, play more, 得点する／非難する／２０ more. That's why I've still got a lot more to give. I'm not a stupid young lad any more. If the 傷害s stay away then I believe in myself.
It was a move the 30-year-old was 気が進まない to make, but he was 軍隊d out of the door
A seven-year stint at West Ham followed before making a 勝利を得た return to Tyneside?
The Newcastle striker sat 負かす／撃墜する with Sportsmail's Craig Hope (権利) for an 排除的 interview
'I'm only 30, let's do another interview in five years' time. I'll still be playing here, that's what 運動s me.
'This isn't a one-year thing, I want a new 取引，協定.'
The Andy Carroll who sits before us now is alive. There is energy in both 団体／死体 and soul. He has just played his first 十分な game since 再結合させるing Newcastle in August and captained the club for the first time at Burnley last 週末.
But to 論証する his newfound contentment, he feels the need to 明らかにする／漏らす the torment of his final months at West Ham, where he spent seven years before 存在 解放（する）d in the summer. Carroll has four children ― 'my little mates' ― and is engaged to The Only Way Is Essex 星／主役にする Billi Mucklow. He is a multi-millionaire. But 奪うd of football に引き続いて a 一連の botched ankle 操作／手術s, he struggled to take satisfaction from a life many on the outside would 推定する 保証（人）s happiness.
'I was in a dark place. It was hard to snap out of and it wasn't until I was on the A1 運動ing 支援する up here that I was like, "This is it, I can start enjoying life again".
'Even my mam and dad were always up and 負かす／撃墜する to London because they were worried. I had good times at West Ham but I needed to get out, it had gone stale. The minute I woke up I didn't want to speak to anyone. I was so angry with myself, my ankle, at not playing.
The Englishman has 証明するd a revitalised 人物／姿／数字 for Steve Bruce's 味方する and is winning plaudits
'When I went out people 手配中の，お尋ね者 to talk about football, and I just couldn't 扱う it. I stayed in on my own.
'I was then putting myself upstairs when people were downstairs. I was just like, "Get everyone out the house, I don't want anyone here!".'
Carroll, we learn, felt an 不正. It is 平易な to understand why as he begins an exasperated recount of the ankle 傷害 that 疫病／悩ますd him for two years.
'This is ridiculous,' he 警告するs. 'I had one 操作／手術 and the screws （機の）カム loose. Unheard of. The next one, the fracture opened again because the screws still weren't tight enough. So I went to a new 外科医. This time the screws were bigger but they realised the ankle ligaments were frayed on the outside. It had never been spotted, for two years!
At 30 years of age, Carroll wants to 選ぶ up where he left off when he left eight years ago
'My last game at West Ham I played with a broken ankle. I'd been told it was 罰金. I was in so much 苦痛 and thought, "I just can't do this any more".'
Somehow, Carroll finds the will to laugh.
'I should have gone to Wickes and got a big 捕らえる、獲得する of screws before those 協議s! But the 最新の 外科医 was excellent. He 修理d everything. That's nine months and no problems.'
After a summer training on his own and with no 逆の reaction, Newcastle decided Carroll was 価値（がある） a 賭事. He 調印するd on an incentivised 支払う／賃金-as-you-play 取引，協定.
'I got a phone call 説, "Are you on your way up?". I was like, "No, but I soon will be!".
The 6ft 4in frontman 得点する／非難する／２０d a mammoth 26 goals in 2010 主要な to the mega-money move
Carroll told of the delight of の近くに friends when they learnt he would be returning home
'Everyone was （犯罪の）一味ing but I was playing it 負かす／撃墜する. I then sent a picture of the Angel of the North to our WhatsApp group, about 25 mates. It went mental.'
There was a 思い出の品 of Carroll at his best during the 最近の 2-1 home 勝利，勝つ over Southampton, when he （機の）カム from the （法廷の）裁判 on the hour with his team 追跡するing. Come 十分な-time he was man of the match, having 奮起させるd the 復帰 and then defending Newcastle's lead.
We watch a clip of his 停止-time 取り組む on Cedric, which induced a roar as loud as a goal.
'He wasn't getting past me, no chance. I thought, "I'm taking the ball, the player and anything else there might be".
'He took a 激しい touch and I was like, "He's 地雷!".
'But that game, the noise, it felt so good. It's why I （機の）カム home.'?
At first, says Carroll, he thought he recognised the man on the motorbike who pulled up と一緒に his Jeep at traffic lights and began chatting to him.
It was only when the biker 需要・要求するd his watch and then gestured to pull a gun on him that the terror began to 広げる.
Until now, Carroll has never spoken about the events of November 2, 2016.
'You 恐れる for your life. It was 25 minutes 存在 chased by two people on bikes pulling guns out. I was nearly home, so I spun around and started 運動ing 支援する に向かって West Ham's training ground.
'I was clipping cars, going through red lights, 速度(を上げる） cameras, 追いつくing on the wrong 味方する.
Carroll 耐えるd a 失望させるing （一定の）期間 in London both on and off the pitch with the 大打撃を与えるs
He was sidelined for two years に引き続いて failed 外科 on a troublesome ankle 傷害
'I was 運動ing 負かす／撃墜する a 二重の carriageway and couldn't get 支援する on the 権利 味方する because of the railings. I was coming to a hill and cars are 飛行機で行くing past me and I 港／避難所't got a 手がかり（を与える） what is on the other 味方する, that's scary. I'm dodging cars and lorries are coming に向かって me. All the time these bikes are still with me. Thankfully, I made it 支援する to the training ground.
'It was 現実に my missus' birthday and it was all arranged to go out ― that was one night I did deserve a drink!'
One man was subsequently 刑務所，拘置所d for 11 years, six for that and five for other 強盗s. Carroll, though, says the 恐れる ぐずぐず残るs.
'My family were worried, "Were they 的ing you? Was it a one-off? Are they gonna 的 the house when Billi is at home with the kids?". Even now, when a bike 運動s past, I s*** myself to be honest.
The striker was also 的d by 武装した robbers on his way home from training in 2016
Carroll stands with Sportsmail's man in the north east Craig Hope at the club's training ground
'Because of the kids, it's everything, no 事柄 where you go. Swimming? Panic. Park? Panic. Zoo? Panic. 'Where are they? What if this happens?'
Carroll's 速度(を上げる）s during the chase were, understandably, 過度の. But that brings us on to a car 旅行 we once 株d when, admittedly, 行方不明になる Daisy could have beaten us home.
In 2009, Newcastle won 1-0 at Preston and Carroll was 孤立した in the second half feeling unwell.
His 条件 悪化するd and, rather t han expose the 残り／休憩（する） of the squad on the team bus, 経営者／支配人 Chris Hughton asked this 特派員 if I could 運動 Carroll 支援する to Tyneside. Conscious of the multi-million-続けざまに猛撃する 資産 wrapped in tracksuit 最高の，を越すs on the 支援する seat, it was an inside-小道／航路 はう all the way.
'Yeah, thanks for that,' says Carroll. No problem, only I did then 行方不明になる a week of work with swine flu, I 知らせる him.
'I didn't have swine flu!' he comes 支援する. 'Man flu, more like.'
Carroll's 注目する，もくろむs roll at について言及する of her 指名する. Karren Brady, West Ham's 副／悪徳行為-chairman.
In November, days after Carroll played in Newcastle's 3-2 勝利，勝つ at London Stadium, Brady attacked him in her newspaper column, 尋問 his かかわり合い and joking that he 定期的に …に出席するd his grandmothers' funerals to 行方不明になる matches.
'Ridiculous. 完全に ridiculous,' returns Carroll. 'Some of the things I could say about her… It's madness. I've spoken to her about five times.
'But that's Karren Brady. I'm not bothered what she says. We （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 them then she says that. She never said that in the seven years I was there. She's just bitter. Let her get on with it.'
West Ham 長，指導者 Karren Brady 怒り／怒るd Carroll with 発言／述べるs made in a newspaper column
It is, then, of 救済 to Carroll that his four-year-old son, Arlo, has switched 忠誠 to Newcastle.
'He was West Ham-mad and always 辞退するd to wear Newcastle （土地などの）細長い一片s, no 事柄 how hard my dad tried. Now, everything is 黒人／ボイコット and white, he even sings the Blaydon Races.
'He's obsessed with football, he knows everything, a lot more than me! Before we （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 Man 部隊d, he asked me to get Scott McTominay's shirt. I was going to but it got a bit heated and I was arguing with McTominay. I thought, "Sorry son, that shirt isn't happening now!".'
Carroll, by his own admission, has never been at 緩和する speaking to the マスコミ. His brow used to sweat as a 十代の少年少女 just talking to 地元の reporters. Ask him about family, however, and he forgets the tapes are rolling. His dad, Thomas, was a steel factory 労働者 who honed his son's 長，率いるing 技術s by throwing a ball to him at the 最高の，を越す of the stairs.
'Every time with Arlo now it's like, "Come on, we're throwing balls". We were practising the other day with a proper matchball. My two-year-old, Wolf, then （機の）カム toddling in and I threw it for him to 長，率いる ― it knocked him clean over! My missus started having a go at me. I was like, "He's got to learn!".
Carroll has made nine 外見s for his country and 耐えるs no grudges for 欠如（する） of game time
'So the three boys and my daughter are all 長，率いるing it. I throw the ball at Billi's 長，率いる 同様に but she tells me to F off and throws something 支援する!'
There was a story on MailOnline last week of the couple's house in Essex 存在 the most 見解（をとる）d 所有物／資産／財産 on Rightmove in 2019.
'I saw that, it's 承認する having a look, but no one's bought it!'
名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）d for £5m and having since paid 棒 Stewart £4.1m for his Essex mansion, Carroll agrees it's a world away from his humble beginnings in Gateshead.
'It's mad, but it's been hard, this didn't just happen 夜通し. I've been working for this since I was four years old, and my family have too.
The Englishman is now relishing the 適切な時期 to live his dream with his boyhood club
'My mam and dad were standing in the sleet up at Alnwick, then 負かす／撃墜する to Hackney 沼s, all over the country so I could play football.
'I'll never forget they saved to get me this one pair of boots I'd whinged for, the R9 Silvers. I 手配中の，お尋ね者 them so bad, then they 傷つける my feet. They were like, "They've just cost 130 quid, you're wearing them!".
'But they worked hard and sacrificed a lot. It was all to play football. That's all I've ever 手配中の，お尋ね者.
'I didn't want the 傷害s or the headlines ― most of which is rubbish anyway ― I just 手配中の，お尋ね者 this.'
If 'this' is playing for Newcastle 部隊d, you do wonder what might have been had he failed that Liverpool 医療の after all.?
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