Walcott only had 27 starts in that season and 10 sub appearances and scored 21 goals. So relative to playing time those stats you post need amending. Also I quoted other stats on shots to goals conversions, pass completion and assists where Walcott comes out on top. So overall contribution to the team is roughly on a par. Anyway the point was not to try and claim that Walcott is better than Bale, it was to show that claiming Lennon is better than Walcott is a pile of ****e.
I saw you quoted other stats too but the Walcott vs Bale discussion got held up on goals. I can't be arsed with working out goals per minute but I'm sure you can see the weakness in what you were arguing above with that figures I posted. TBH, trying to compare Walcott to Bale is ridiculous, Theo is nowhere near Gareth I do agree that Walcott is a much better player than Lennon though. Sterling's better than both mind
The thing is though, you have to measure that goal ratio on the amount of game time they have played. Bale played 3960 mins and averaged a goal every 152 mins. Walcott played 2639 mins and averaged a goal every 125 mins. As for the other stats, Walcott had a better shots to goals conversion rate, more assists and better pass completion rate.
At least you've come clean about him diving when he was a Spurs player. The old 'he's jumping out of the way of a tackle' excuse never convinced anybody.
Yeah, because Spurs fans always denied it when he was at WHL. The problem was that he was singled out for special treatment by the refs, often being booked when blatantly fouled. The likes of Pires, Walcott and Cazorla get rewarded for it, while others are punished. FIFA even had to step in to punish Joel Campbell for it after this piece of ****erdom, such is the epidemic at Arsenal:
None of those players have dived? Some teams and players are punished in ways that others aren't. I don't think that's even vaguely controversial. Shearer kicking Lennon in the face is one of the most stark examples.
Here's another stark example. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/t/tottenham_hotspur/6076094.stm
They couldn't act, as the ref saw it and punished him at the time. It actually says that in the article you quoted. Gerrard's endless off-the-ball elbows would be a better example. Or his dives. Or the fact that Suarez was never sent off for you.
It also says in the article that Ben Thatcher was retro punished a week earlier even though the ref had seen the incident and punished the player. Just because the ref booked him doesn't mean the punishment matched the offence.
Thatcher was punished for this: An elbow that Gerrard would've been proud of. Makes you wonder why he keeps getting away with it, doesn't it?
