Where Now For Theo?

Theo Walcott joins some illustrious company of players expected to be playing in this summer's World Cup but who have failed to make the squad. He is in a group of two, the other being Ronaldinho, who appear on our screens in World Cup advertising campaigns without actually being there, but he can count on Javier Zanetti, Esteban Cambiasso, Francesco Totti, Fabio Grosso and Ruud Van Nistelrooy among others for tea and sympathy when it comes to exchanging tales of what might have been.

I've said it before and I'l say it again Theo Walcott either needs to play alongside Robin Van Persie from August or he needs to move otherwise his career with stagnate at Arsenal. At present you get the impression that he doesn't have a footballing brain, too often he overruns the ball, he doesn't look up, his crossing is poor and his choice of final ball often woeful. He needs to be playing football regularly to improve, Arsene Wenger may well wear a magic hat but his treatment and development of a player who, lest we forget, scored a hat-trick in Croatia when playing mainly down the middle, has been poor.

Walcott isn't the first English player to fall foul of the Wenger regime and you do wonder why Arsenal paid so much money without seemingly offering him the chance to improve.