Football Daily | What Andy Carroll did next: Bordeaux’s unlikely trebuchet

ANDY IN BORDEAUXIt seems pretty likely that history will look back on the career of Andy Carroll (if at all) with a certain amount of puzzlement and confusion. Terrifyingly effective £35m goal trebuchet? Knack-prone serial flop? The final flourishing of the English Big Man? The great what-might-have-been of the Capello/Hodgson England eras? A wasted talent whose international caps only arrived because the alternative was Jay Bothroyd?Whatever the final reckoning, the 35-year-old is clearly keen on adding a few more chapters to the story, last month penning a deal with ailing French club Bordeaux of – thanks to bankruptcy – the fourth-tier Championnat National 2. And thus far Carroll’s spell with Les Girondins has undeniably been a success. On his debut against Châteaubriant he scored 72nd- and 88th-minute goals to help his team earn a point from 2-0 down, and he followed that up with another brace against Saumur, his 84th-minute winner earning the team a 2-1 victory –…