Theo’s emission from the U21’s means chance for England recall
Its really quiet at the moment, eerily quiet, at this time of the season you are expecting hype, hype and more hype. UEFA’s plan to play the last 16 round of the Champions League looks a failure, especially as the plan was to give each game more exposure. Fail, Platini.
The only real thing to talk about is…. *flicks through Newsnow quickly*… is the emission of Theo Walcott from the England under 21’s squad. You would think that now he is back fit again he would either be in the proper England squad or the Under 21’s – and as they play on the same night I reckon it means hes gonna be playing against Egypt at Wembley in a few weeks.
Right now I would prefer it if he was just left alone to focus on Arsenal and staying fit, if he doesn’t get injured again he will probably go to South Africa – rightly or wrongly. He needs to start showing some form now he has a couple of games under his belt and from what I have heard, there was improvement against Sunderland so lets hope he continues this against Stoke on Saturday evening.
There is some kind of jinx with England and Theo, he seems to get injured nine times out of ten, and in the one out of ten, scores a hat-trick and gets hyped up beyond all recognition.
Theres an interview with Jens Lehmann in the Mail, what a fantastic keeper he was, he was a class above Manuel Almunia. Rising to the big occasion and almost single handedly won us the FA Cup in 2005. I’m sure any autobiography of his would be a hilarious read, he was often criticised for being eccentric and OTT but he was a right laugh, the type of personality that made the League the best in the world at the time.
Right, thats about it for today, nothing else to say really. Till tomorrow.
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Theo is a tricky one. Having watched him on Sunday and been frustrated by the fact that nearly all his good work was undone by by a poor decision or a bad ball it looks to me as though he needs lots of playing time to come good. I don’t think however we are in a position to give hime that at the moment with the title a possibility if we manage to get to the end of the season without dropping many further points ?4. Perhaps a loan deal would have done him some good.
I think this season would have happened for him anyway with injuries, im not convinced a loan would have resulted in an injury free season.
He needs lots of gametime to recover his sharpness and keep on learning, remember he is still an amateur to the game, he only started in his teens.