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The England and Arsenal winger Theo Walcott scored a brilliant hat-trick for the Gunners yesterday, and he thinks that he is now ready to make the switch from winger to centre-forward, just like his hero Thierry Henry.

“The boss signed me as a striker but I’ll happily play anywhere for Arsenal,” he said yesterday.

“There’s a lot of competition up front now with Marouane and Robin, so as long as I provide goals and pop up with one now and then I’m happy with that. .......Read the full article here

The Arsenal winger Theo Walcott had a miserable injury-filled season last year, which was capped with the disappointment of being left out of the England team that went to South Africa, but he believes he can now move on from that and show everyone how skilful he really is this time around.

“It is a massive season for me,” said Walcott. “After the disappointment of the summer, I know what I have to do.

“When something doesn’t go well for you, just forget about it and move on to the next one. That is what I will do this season. .......Read the full article here

The England manager Fabio Capello has given his England squad a complete shake-up, and has dropped half the players that he took to South Africa for the disastrous World Cup campaign.

He has added Theo Walcott, who was so upset about being left behind in June, but also the two Arsenal youngsters Kieran Gibbs and Jack Wilshere have received their first ever call ups for their country. Both of them are over the moon at their unexpected selection, but Wilshere is keeping his feet on the ground, and admits that becoming a regular for Arsenal must remain his first target. .......Read the full article here

Arsenal won their third pre-season match easily enough, and still havent conceded a goal. In fact although all four of Wengers goalkeepers have now had game-time, none of them have had much to do!

Vito Mannone did everything that was asked of him in the second half yesterday, and even managed to save a soft penalty against the Austrian amateurs, but Wenger really can’t have had any pointers on who will be between the sticks in the fist league match at Anfield. .......Read the full article here

The Arsenal winger Theo Walcott could not have got a higher praise than he got today from the world’s best player, Lionel Messi. The Argentina striker reckons that Fabio Capello was crazy not to take Walcott to South Africa, and thinks that he could have made a real difference in the group stages, and he would frighten any defender that he came up against!

“I must say that at the time I thought it was a bad decision to leave Theo Walcott at home,” Messi said. .......Read the full article here

The Arsenal winger Theo Walcott last night explained his extreme disappointment with being excluded from Fabio Capello’s World Cup squad, but says that he “respects his decision”.

Some papers have revealed this morning that Walcott was given a public dressing down by Capello, in front of all his team-mates, for not following the Italian’s instructions in the game against Mexico, and his following lacklustre performance against Japan made him a certainty for the chop.

Walcott probably already knew what was coming when he received the phone call from Capello. He was playing a round of golf when the phone rang and Walcott revealed: ‘He (Capello) said he was sorry but I hadn’t made the squad. .......Read the full article here

Fabio Capello is just about to name the final England squad to go to the World Cup Finals, and it seems that the England camp has more leaks than the whole of Wales!

It has been reported that Theo Walcott’s display against Japan was not half as impressive as Joe Cole’s or Shaun Wright-Phillips, so those two will be on the plane while Theo sits at home wondering what might have been….

Gareth Barry has passed his fitness test and will be on the plane, while the young Man City winger Adam Johnson will have to wait another four years before he gets his chance. .......Read the full article here

The Arsenal winger Theo Walcott has been rueing his season which has been dogged by continual injury problems, and he says that he tried to hard to be back to his best after such a long time out of the game.

He thinks that he is the type of player who is expected to have an immediate impact when he plays, but it doesn’t always work out like that and he gets open to criticism. .......Read the full article here

The Arsenal striker Nicklas Bendtner scored the 94th minute winner yesterday against Wolves to keep Arsenal in the race for the Premiership title, and says that Arsenal can also shock the European Champions in the Nou Camp next week.

He said:”We showed ­belief and we showed character. I still think we can go through.”

“It will take a ­monumental effort to win in the Nou Camp.

“But Barcelona have lost there this season in a group game against the lowly Russians of Rubin Kazan and they will also be without first-choice central defenders Gerard Pique and Carles Puyol.” .......Read the full article here

The Arsenal winger Theo Walcott celebrated his 21st Birthday last week, and is looking forward to crowning his year with a trophy or two by the end of the season, but although he thinks his team is full of belief and confidence, he also thinks that Barcelona are a fantastic team.

He said: “Hopefully I can be fresh for the forthcoming months and win something, especially for Arsenal. It has been a long time.

“We have never given up. A lot of people wrote us off – a lot of times – but we have bounced back. .......Read the full article here

Arsene Wenger has come out in praise of Emmanuel Eboue, who has targeted by the Arsenal booboys last season, but has come back fitter and strongerto win the fans back over to his side.

Wenger noted that Theo Walcott has also suffered criticism lately since his return from injury, and he should continue to do his talking on the pitch.

“I believe it is like Theo.” said the manager. “Eboue was criticised last year and came back with the right attitude. Put the right performances in and people will love you. .......Read the full article here

Arsene Wenger was very pleased with Asenal’s win over Burnley, considering the amount of chances that were missed by his team, and especially Nicklas Bendtner.

He said: “I believe at the surface he (Bendtner) looks like ‘okay, I missed the chances’, but underneath he is really disappointed. Everybody has a different way to show his emotions, and he hides well, but he cares. .......Read the full article here