Karren Brady has launched a savage tirade against Newcastle United striker Andy Carroll for his conduct while at West Ham - questioning his commitment on the pitch.
The Hammers' vice-chairman labelled the 30-year-old Geordie frontman - who spent seven years in the capital - as a "behemoth from ages past".
Brady suggests the injury-plagued striker had a "glossary of reasons" for not appearing on the pitch, including going to funerals for his grandmothers "quite regularly".
Carroll has so far made five substitute appearances in his second spell on Tyneside - including a cameo in the Magpies' victory against his former employers last weekend.
Writing in her column for the Sun , Brady raised Carroll's time at Upton Park and the London Stadium as part of a discussion on Mesut Ozil's current troubles at Arsenal.
Writing in her column for the Sun, Brady said: “Ozil is far from the only footballer to cause confusion between what is and what can be.
“We have had plenty at West Ham. One of them, a behemoth from ages past — actually it was only last season — Andy Carroll returned to the London Stadium stomping around in his Newcastle strip.
“He was seen in ours just over a hundred times, many as a sub, in seven years.
“Early in his career he was noted for confrontation, including with a colleague or two.
"With us, there was a glossary of reasons for all sorts of non-appearances and perhaps unfairly the joke was he used to go to his grandma’s funerals quite regularly.
“While he always tried on the pitch, he appeared to be trying harder off it.”
