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Please update your billing details here to continue enjoying your subscription. Your subscription will end shortly. He was captain for the match, and told Sky Sports after the final whistle that, "they wanted it more, you could sense that from the kick-off. Jamie Carragher was appalled by the admission, and it seems Wenger wasn't too pleased either. He dropped Walcott for Arsenal's next match, and started him two weeks later in a win over Leicester City.
However, that was his last Premier League start for the club. He didn't feature in the team's FA Cup semi-final victory over Manchester City, and played no part in the final win against Chelsea.
This season, he hasn't started a single league match, and has played only 63 minutes of football for the club in the Premier League. There might be something to the theory that the comments following the Palace match effectively ended Walcott's Arsenal career. Wenger said that he "regrets" that Walcott has decided to leave, but understands that he wanted to go play regularly elsewhere. He praised him as an "intelligent" person with "complete integrity, total commitment and focus on his job.
There's a theory about why Arsenal finally decided to sell Theo Walcott. Robert Redmond. After 12 years at Arsenal, Theo Walcott has left the club. Pharrell Williams was born before Paul Scholes. It's a fact that manages to seem weird in two different ways: Walcott has achieved a whole lot less than Bale, and yet seems to have been around for an entire eternity longer. Yet the two started roughly in tandem. And both are turning 30, Bale this summer. That there was in fact only six months between their respective Saints debuts speaks, in hindsight, to a pair of careers that have since moved at utterly different paces: Walcott inching along a year path to the Goodison Park fringes via the scenic route of late-Wenger-era Arsenal, Bale electrifying the other side of north London before skyrocketing into gleaming galactico-dom.
And yet it was Walcott who got off to by far the quicker start, whisked off to the World Cup at 17 and scoring a hat-trick for England two years later. A full 18 months after that, Bale was still kicking his heels on the Spurs fringes while his manager — the same one who gave Walcott his Southampton debut — tried to pack him off on loan to Nottingham Forest.
But it does leave you wondering what lies ahead for a player who, entering the autumn of his career, retains an almost mystical ability to leave a football match utterly unaffected by his presence. Certainly Walcott has been done few favours by the way his sport has changed over the course of his career. In other words, finely tuned athleticism was still a serious advantage for a Premier League footballer rather than the blanket prerequsite it would soon become.
And he proved as much in each of his first two Arsenal games, zooming into space down the flank to cross for a team-mate to tap in, and again when he hared clear of a Chelsea defence to score his first Arsenal goal. That giddying hat-trick in Zagreb for England was more of the same.
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