Theo Walcott played 90 minutes in England’s 2-0 win over Andorra last night and was one of the highlights of a not so great game. I’ve been hoping that Capello would give him a chance to play for the national side because I think a player like him can really help the side, there’s a bit of a lack of inspiration for England at the moment and a player like Theo can really liven things up.

Andorra are ranked something like 170th in the world and Theo was given the start ahead of the more established David Beckham. It was all England pressure, the whole game. There was one point in the second half where Andorra got a corner but that was literally all the attack they had. They had 9 men defending + 1 ‘keeper + 1 striker just encase a ball went loose. So they were hard to break down and Walcott was the only man having any joy getting through in the first half.

He had a few decent chances but couldn’t convert, he did a good job though and Capello has been shown what he can do now. Maybe he’ll be so impressed that he’ll play him against Croatia on Wednesday but I have a felling that for that game he’ll want to go for a bit more experience.

Here’s Theo’s post-match interview.

The only other bit of news this week has been about a possible takeover. It looks like Red & White Holdings, dubbed ‘Fat & Orange’ by Arseblog, has become just ‘Fat’. The Daily Mail says David Dein is stepping down as chairman from Usmanov’s holdings company. That’s what they’re saying anyway, maybe he got sacked because Usmanov knows Arsenal won’t go near him with Dein on his side or, maybe he’s laid him off saying that if he takes power of Arsenal he’ll employ him back.

I don’t know, but whatever it means but one thing we do know is that Fat & Orange are still trying to manipulate a takeover. Peter Hill-Wood’s been talking about it saying that we’re not interested, however if the right price came along then we’d have to take it. Hmm.

More on this another time but the story doesn’t end here.

Lastly, Cesc Fabregas has been talking about a move to Man City after he was named in their dream team of hopeful signings with their new mega-rich investors. City are supposed to be going on a spending spree bringing in all the top players from around the world including Ronaldo, Puyol, Buffon and anyone they can think of. Anyway, Cesc had this to say:

“It would be suicidal for my career at 21 years of age to move to City. It would make no sense.

Man City might have shit loads of money but I don’t think they’re going to be able to get the top 11 players in the world just to say, “Hey, yeah! ‘Course I’ll come, it’s not like I care about the club I’m with. Woo!”

Right well that’s it for today, and Monday, and Tuesday. I’ve got to go down to Bournemouth for a few days to sort stuff out for my new house and there’s no internet connection set up down there. If I get it sorted before Wednesday then you might get an update but otherwise I’m not coming back here until Wednesday.

Thanks for reading, speak to you soon.