Theo Walcott – Prodigal Striker to Wing Wizard
on November 30, 2010 at 1:13 pmTheo James Walcott – Born 16th March 1989.
He was born in Stanmore, North London and his early years were spent in Newbury, Berks where he played for A.F.C. Newbury scoring over 100 goals in his first season and only season before moving to Swindon Town. He spent 6 months there before being scouted and transferred to Southampton rejecting the chance to join Chelski and earning himself a sponsorship contract with Nike.
For his shame he’s a Liverpool fan.
He made his first team debut for Southampton as a substitute in a 0:0 draw at home to Wolves in 2005 aged 16 years and 143 days. He made his full first team debut away to Leeds United on the 18th October 2005 and scored his first senior goal.
He transferred to Arsenal on the 20th January 2006, for a fee reported to be around
Theo Walcott….lol.
One of the worse buys for Arsene, especially for the amount of money he spent on him.
I would sold him in the a long time ago and brought in a footballer rather than a runner.
I honestly do believe he is a runner and not a footballer, I mean look at Van Der Vaart, a natural footballer, or Adam Johnson for Man city, these are the type of attackers we should have instead of Walcott.
I never criticize my team but Walcott and Bendtner are the two of the worse attackers I've seen in Arsenal shirts in my 23 years of supporting the club, and that is a huge statement considering how much I love the club and really hate gunning down the players like this!
I appreciate your viewpoint, but do you not think we need different options sometimes? We've got tricky players in Arshavin, Rosicky, Nasri but noone with real pace to burn.
Lets not forget, pace is an asset often forgotten but defenders hate pace, they are often running backwards towards their goal and trying to close space and at pace its difficult.
Theo gives us that option. I agree his strike rate isn't brilliant, but he's 21 and he's been more prolific this season with his goals/games ratio.
Keep the faith Mr Anon.