But thought you didn't care about those bar stewards? However, you are correct; you could seem him getting more frustrated as the game progressed.
Walcott put in one very good cross for the goal but that was about it. He tried one again 10 minutes later that landed in Albania
If it were possible to distil everything that was wrong about the game into just one thing, that thing would be Wayne Rooney.
walcott will never reach his potential...won't be long till AOC dislodges him from The Gunners right wing position....he will probably need to move down a level in Prem to improve. Should of stayed with us to get regular games and toughen up rather than spend 2 years in easy street with Arsenal's reserves.....silly me I forgot about the money and the book publishings
Maybe in the future, the Walcott deal will be seen as the best bit of business which we did, and the AOC deal the most regretted. I certainly think that Alex is a far better player than Theo was at the same age.
I think they were very much on a par at the same age, and although their development routes have been similar, they are different types of player, and their paths to progress have been very different. While Walcott was at Saints he was a bloody revelation, turning a turgid, slow paced team into a nightmare for defences. Remember also, he was very much thrown in at the deep end, and he had to swim. There is an old adage in football that you don't play kids, however good they are, in a team that is going downhill. Yet Theo stood up to the task in the Championship. In contrast, OXO was introduced to a confident team, playing at a lower level, and with less weight of expectation on his young shoulders. I'm not putting him down in the slightest. Just trying to readjust the perspective. I think Theo's problem was that he certainly needed to stay at Saints for longer. Remember that he was unable to get into a clearly superior team than they have today, and that time would have been better spent playing for Southampton. OXO has managed it already, due to a lack of good results, ideas and power in his new team, and less competition for places too. Either deal is to be regretted, because the team that Saints could have had if everybody stayed, is phenomenal. However, those two, and Bale and Jones, went for very good money, under the circumstances. The others, went for less than they were worth, the closer relegation and administration came to haunt Saints.
I take your point about the different circumstances and divisions, but memory of Theo was that he had electric pace, but at the same age he didn't have the same control of the ball as Alex and wasn't quite as good a finisher. Just a matter of opinion. Obviously the biggest difference in the two transactions was the financial background, and Theo saved the club from bankruptcy, even though under the rules Wenger could have signed him for next to nothing had he wanted to.