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Originally Posted by NBC
Too bad that England has won all ten games in which Walcott has featured, averaging more than three goals a game. The pro-Spurs hatred for this guy borders on the sublime. I'm pretty sure that if Walcott was an Everton player, there would be none of these ad hominem attacks.
Just as in the case of Emile Heskey, England have a very good record when he features, even though his goal scoring record isn't that good. He plays well with smaller forwards like Rooney and Owen and has definitely had a hand in their prolific goal scoring successes.
I wonder if Spurs fans felt this way when Paul Robinson was in the squad, as it is widely thought that he has been the worst England starting goalkeeper in the past 30 years.
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Its not just Spurs fans who dislike him, and if he played for Everton (or any other club not in the "big" 4) he wouldn't even make the squad
95% of the media who covers the team have said he was one of the worst players in practice the last week and was being badly outplayed by Adam Johnson
It is nowhere near an anti-Arsenal thing, he is just not a good enough player to make the English national team let alone start in a world cup
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Others were not so generous. Chris Waddle, England winger of 62 caps, was commentating on England's 3-1 victory for BBC 5 Live and Walcott's display merely confirmed his suspicions about the Arsenal wideman.
'I don't think he's got a football brain,' said Waddle, who also monitored Walcott's progress closely during last summer's European Under 21 Championships. 'He doesn't understand the game, where to be running, when to run inside a full back, when to play a one-two. It's all off the cuff.
'Let's be honest, good defenders would catch him offside every time. I don't know whether he studies the game, learns the game. He's at a great club, where they play fantastic football and I'm surprised he's never developed his game.
'People keep saying he's young but Wayne Rooney understood the game at 16. I've never seen any difference in Walcott since he was at Southampton and broke into the team at a very young age. He doesn't play a lot of football. He hasn't done anything for a long time. I think Croatia was a one-off.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/wor...#ixzz0pOomgprq
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even most Arsenal fans say Lennon should start
http://arsenal-mania.com/forum/viewt...p?f=25&t=34925 (the stuff about the world cup is in the later pages its a very long thread, some of the language is NSFW as well)