by Chas Newkey-Burden @https://twitter.com/@allthatchas Published 20 sec ago When Theo Walcott signed for Arsenal in 2006, there was real hope that he could define the club for years to come. He did – but not in the way everyone hoped. Walcott, who joined just months before the club left Highbury, became the embodiment of the club’s relatively lean years at the Emirates: polite, fresh-faced and gifted; but fragile, overly comfortable and underachieving. When Graeme Souness accurately described Arsenal as a team of sweet ‘son-in-laws’, he was the prime example. From Patrick Vieira, who would quite literally spit in your face, to Theo Walcott, who probably wouldn’t even spit in...
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