West Ham United's outspoken vice-chairman Karren Brady has launched a nasty attack on Newcastle United striker Andy Carroll.

Carroll left West Ham this summer to return to Newcastle on a free transfer.

Writing in her column for The Sun, Brady said: “(Mesut) 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."

It's notable that Brady never publicly raised such concerns when Carroll was an Irons player.