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Dan Silver, Mirror.co.uk 14/10/2008 Two years ago, the departing England manager Sven Goran Eriksson offered this chilling warning during his final press conference: "Wayne Rooney is the golden boy of English football. Don't kill him because you will need him." Fortunately Wayne took matters into his own hands and ensured his survival by squandering away that initial promise with two years of patchy performances. Unfortunately this meant that Sven’s lesson wasn’t heeded, and history is now repeating itself with the latest England hero Theo Walcott. After his astonishing hat-trick in Zagreb last month, anyone not feting the young Gunner as the nation’s savour was busy writing David Beckham’s obituary instead. On Saturday Walcott’s rather less impressive performance led to inevitable mutterings about his lack of suitability for... [read full story]
