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Andy Carroll suffers nightmare return to English football as he debuts for non-league club in 5-1 loss - where Trialist B scored a brace!
Andy Carroll endured a debut to forget for Dagenham and Redbridge as the non-league club suffered a defeat to League Two outfit Crawley Town in a preseason friendly. Carroll, 36, came off the bench an hour into the game with his new team down 2-1, only for a player listed as 'Trialist B' to run riot with a double in the closing stages as Crawley ended up with a 5-1 victory. The former Liverpool and Newcastle striker was greeted warmly by the Dagenham fans but he could not stop Crawley from showing their superiority. Carroll, who at one point commanded a record transfer fee for a British player when he joined Liverpool from Newcastle for £35 million back in 2011, moved to the East London club earlier this summer. He has also become an investor in the non-league outfit. 'I'm really excited to get started with Dagenham,' said Carroll when he signed. Andy Carroll has signed for 6th division team Dagenham and Redbridge. The 36 year old signs a 3 year contract.✍️ — PurelyFootball ℗ (@PurelyFootball) July 12, 2025 Andy Carroll has gone from English record signing to Ligue 2 and then England's sixth tier 'My kids thought I was signing for Chelsea - they'll be in for a shock. 'It's a fantastic location and close to my kids, they will be able to come and see me play.' A return to English football comes after Carroll spent two years in the French Ligue 2, first with Amiens and then Bordeaux. He started his career at Newcastle, making 143 appearances for the club in separate stints either side of his record move to Liverpool. Carroll also played for West Ham for seven years - again in separate spells - as well as Preston, West Brom and Reading. He has nine England caps and a pair of international goals to his name. Dagenham's competitive season gets underway on August 9th when they host Ebbsfleet United in the National League South, the sixth tier of English football.
BBC News
3 hours ago
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Burke feels force of destiny in Scotland debut
New Zealand-born Fergus Burke feels like "it was meant to be" after making his Scotland debut in the southern 25-year-old Saracens fly-half was in Gregor Townsend's squad for this year's Six Nations, but it was not until Friday's 29-14 summer tour defeat by Fiji that he earned his first could be quickly followed by a second against Samoa at Eden Park in the land of his birth on Friday and, not surprisingly, he has "a fair few people" chasing him for tickets."I've had a few messages from people I haven't heard from for a while, but I'll hopefully get a good contingent of support there and it'll be cool," Burke said."It is a weird one. Obviously I was in for the Six Nations but didn't get a crack, so it is almost like this was the way it was meant to be when I get my first opportunity so my family could actually be here."Darcy Graham was sent off after a second yellow card while Ewan Ashman was also sin-binned in Suva and Burke thinks the Scots can perform better against Samoa if they improve their discipline."I think in parts of that Fiji game we showed how good we are as a team when we get it right, but we got our discipline wrong and ended up making a lot more tackles than we needed to," he expects "a similar challenge to Fiji" but hopes to spend less time on defence against Samoa."I think they are going to be a little more structured than Fiji was - Fiji was quite loose and the looser the game got, the better they got," he suggested."I've got a feeling Samoa are going to kick a little bit more. We know how important this game is and we are pretty focused on getting it right."Burke ended the game playing at full-back after Adam Hastings' introduction."I wasn't expecting that, but I played a little bit of full-back when I was still in New Zealand at Crusaders, so I felt reasonably comfortable there and I enjoyed playing with Adam as well," he added."I thought it was good when he came on and we probably got our most attacking in that last 10 minutes with ball in hand."
BBC News
3 hours ago
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Motherwell leave it late as East Kilbride stun Raith Rovers
Heart of Midlothian made it two wins from two in the Premier Sports Cup with a comfortable 4-0 success away to Hamilton Findlay and Elton Kabangu scored first-half goals for the Edinburgh side, with James Wilson and Claudio Braga on target after the interval. Motherwell needed a late goal from Lukas Fadinger to earn a 2-1 win over Peterhead at Fir Park, while St Mirren beat Forfar Athletic by the same Two newcomers East Kilbride stunned Raith Rovers 4-2 at Stark's Park, with John Robertson grabbing an incredible five-minute hat-trick - two of those goals coming in stoppage-time. Group A Queen's Park bounced back from a sore weekend defeat at Spartans to beat Brechin City McDonnell and Josh Fowler each scored twice, with Michael Ruth also on target for the Glasgow early goal from Declan Glass was enough for Cove Rangers to squeeze past Spartans, leaving four teams on three points. Group B Partick Thistle sit top of the table on maximum points after a 2-0 victory over Stranraer at Watt got his first goal for the Jags, coming off the bench to make the points safe with an emphatic finish after captain Lee Ashcroft's header in first-half stoppage-timeQueen of the South enjoyed their first outing in the tournament, crashing in four goals at home to Edinburgh Lyon hit a double, either side of efforts from Kurtis Guthrie and Michael Hewitt. Group C Airdrieonians and Alloa Athletic lead the way on six points after seeing off Bonnyrigg Rose and Montrose Armstrong got the ball rolling for the Diamonds and Euan Henderson added a penalty, which had resulted in a red card for Joseph McGrattan made it 3-0 to Airdrie before the interval, with no more scoring against the 10 winner came from Kurtis Roberts, just a few minutes after Kerr Waddell had levelled. Cameron O'Donnell had given the Wasps a half-time lead at home. Group D Jayden Richardson opened his St Mirren account with a tremendous angled strike and Mikael Mandron added a second goal with 15 minutes remaining at Station replied through a fantastic long-range strike from Kieran Inglis but the Premiership side held on for a precious victory after an opening weekend draw with Arbroath. Ayr United were the evening's highest scorers, hitting six past Annan Athletic at Oakley was a hat-trick hero for Scott Brown's side, with Ethan Walker, Dom Thomas and Lucas McRoberts adding to the hosts' misery. Group E Stuart Findlay and Claudio Braga scored their first Hearts goals as Derek McInnes's men hit four for the second successive nodded in from a corner after just six minutes and Elton Kabangu touched home a low cross from Christian Borchgrevink before forward Braga made a good impression in his 25-minute cameo, teeing up James Wilson before a big deflection helped his shot deceive goalkeeper Jamie opened their tournament with a 1-0 win over Stirling Albion thanks to a Kyle Banner own goal, which came soon after a red card for the visitors' Ross Cunningham. Group F On a night packed with goals, John Robertson struck three times in the closing minutes to give East Kilbride a famous win against Raith Healy had given last season's Lowland League champions the lead in Fife but it looked like the Championship side had recovered through efforts from Jai Rowe and Lewis Robertson had other ideas, levelling the game on 89 minutes before banging in a penalty and completing his hat-trick on 94 striker Billy Mckay and Luis Longstaff got the goals as Inverness Caley Thistle beat Elgin City 2-0 to make this another section with four teams on three points. Group G Motherwell left it late to complete a comeback at home to Peterhead as Lukas Fadinger glanced in a neat header on 91 Brown had caught the Fir Park defence napping to strike for the League One visitors, while Emmanuel Longelo smashed an equaliser into the top struggled for long periods against a stuffy defence but a fine cross from Callum Slattery got Fadinger off the mark for his new top the section on six points after a 3-0 home win over a few hours after the Greenock team announced a new contract for Tomi Adeloye, the striker scored twice, with Owen Moffat grabbing the other goal for Dougie Imrie's side. Group H Kelty Hearts got their campaign off to a winning start, sweeping aside Highland League champions Brora visitors led 3-0 at the interval, with Craig Johnston firing in after just three minutes and Robbie Cole grabbing a Ferguson completed the scoring for the and Livingston meet at Rugby Park on Wednesday.
