Retiring Theo has right to be proud

John Lyons
FLP EXECUTIVE EDITOR
Theo Walcott’s decision to call time on his career has probably made us all feel old.
It seems just like yesterday that he was surprisingly selected as a 17-year-old in Sven-Goran Eriksson’s England World Cup squad of 2006.

NEXT STEP: Theo Walcott

Fittingly, Walcott, now 34, finished his career back at Southampton, where it all started for him all those years ago. The boy wonder may not quite have hit the heights we once thought he would, but he has had a brilliant career for Saints, Arsenal, Everton and England.

Having played over 600 games in approachi...

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