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Episode: Read #13 - Theo Walcott had a successful career despite battling impossible standard [Nick Ames]
Description: "What should Walcott have been? Perhaps it is smarter to look at what he actually was. Few forwards with 47 England caps are retrospectively marked as failures, even if those appearances came during a largely barren period for the national team. Arsène Wenger may have flirted with a few duds during his latter years at Arsenal but it said plenty that he persevered with Walcott, selecting him 397 times and starting him on 252 of them.
He scored 108 goals for Wenger, one of them in a victorious FA Cup final. These are hardly the numbers of a player who di...