Mark Alpert writes, “I know everybody is taking the piss out of him, justified to an extent by his £35m price tag, but i’m actually starting to feel sympathy for Andy Carroll. I mean, he didn’t even want to go to Liverpool in the first place. Poor guy.” I know what you mean Mark. He is a human being after all, and it’s not his fault Liverpool so stupidly, so obscenely overpaid for him. Still, the joke is too good to not use and reuse and recycle over and over and over and over again. Like “net spend,” it just never gets old.