Walcott's appearance resembles the American golf star Tiger Woods, and after Tiger Woods became famous, people used to call him "Tiger", because "Tiger" means "tiger" in English, so Walcott is "Little Tiger". He has always loved the nickname, not only because of his looks, but also because he feels that he will be able to be as famous as Tiger Woods in the future.

In fact. Although his speed of fame is not as fast as that of Tiger Woods, it is also extremely amazing.

At the beginning of his football training, Walcourt played for the Swindon Under-11 team before moving to the prestigious Southampton team. Walcott was called on in August 2005 for a game against Wolves at the age of 16 years and 143 days, making him the youngest player to make his appearance in the club's history. In October of the same year, he scored his first goal for The Saints. With his stunning performance, Walcott was named one of the top three sports newcomers of the year by the BBC in 2005.

Then the unthinkable happened, and in January 2006, Arsenal paid £5 million to buy him from Southampton, a transfer fee that could rise to as much as $12 million, depending on the number of appearances. Walcott became famous all of a sudden, knowing that just seven months earlier, in October 2005, Walcott was an unknown child, who had just entered Southampton's first team and became their main striker. By February 2006, however, he had been included in Arsenal's Champions League squad and was on the bench against Real Madrid. What has happened in just a few months has been incredible for the 17-year-old, who has gone from being a substitute to a Championship side to a member of Premier League giants Arsenal.

An even more magical story is yet to come.

In the 2006 World Cup in Germany, England coach Eriksen was the biggest surprise in his 23-man squad. From a substitute for a Championship team, to a member of Premier League giants Arsenal, and then to the World Cup with the England national team, such a rapid rise can only be described as a miracle.

Eriksen's gambling with the 17-year-old Walket was also questioned by many people after the World Cup, you know, Walcott has not appeared in the Premier League until this time, a player who has only played a limited number of Championship games, can actually be selected for the England team to compete in the World Cup finals team, even in football novels, there will be no such bold plot.

However, throughout the tournament, Walcott was a complete spectator in the No. 23 shirt and did not get a minute of playing time. It also made Eriksen's decision a lot of criticism, as they felt Eriksen had wasted a valuable slot. However, for Walcott himself, although he did not play a minute and did not get the opportunity to appear, Walcott has always been in a learning mentality. After all, being able to experience the World Cup in person is a very rare experience in itself. In this regard, despite Eriksen's criticism as England manager, Walket should be grateful to the Swedish coach.

After the World Cup, Theo Walcott also began to try to find his place at Arsenal, but his main battlefield as a young man was in the domestic cup competition. In the English League Cup final in February 2007, Arsene Wenger fielded a predominantly young squad against Chelsea's all-out squad. Theo Walcott gave the Gunners the lead in the 12th minute, the first goal of Walcott's Gunners career. Unfortunately, in the subsequent game, Drogba scored twice and destroyed the Gunners' championship dream. However, Walcott's excellent watch Xiàn won a lot of praise.

Subsequently, the young player, nicknamed 'Little Tiger', began to be used more and more by Wenger.

In the Premier League this season, Theo Walcott has gradually occupied a quasi-main position at Arsenal. He is the speed and the breakthrough that greatly enriches Arsenal's attacking routine.

Therefore, Ferguson also attaches great importance to Walcott, and tells his players to pay attention to Walcott's defense.

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Manchester United in the dressing room.

"All right, boys. Ferguson looked down at his watch. Seeing that the time was almost up, he shook his hand, "Let's get out." ”

"Get on the field. Today's starting captain Rio Ferdinand shouted.

One by one, the players stood up and walked towards the gate.

Yang Fan seemed to be thinking about something, he lowered his head and walked, but he was stopped.

He looked up and saw that it was Ferguson.

Ferguson stared at Yang Fan, "I was in good spirits just now, but you dared to make fun of me, why don't you have any spirit now?"

Yang Fan smiled.

Ferguson kicked Yang Fan's ass, "Go ahead." ”

"Oh. Yang Fan agreed.

"Doesn't sound like I'm excited......"

"It's exciting to score a few goals. ”

Ferguson laughed: "Go ahead." At the same time, he was about to kick Yang Fan's ass, but Yang Fan quickly dodged and ran away.

"This kid. Ferguson scolded with a laugh.

Assistant coach Mike Ferran watched from the side and smiled, don't look at Ferguson's love of reprimanding Yang Fan, but he can see that Ferguson really likes and values this Chinese young man.

Yang Fan lowered his head and walked out, he knew what the head coach wanted to say, or what he was worried about. Ferguson was worried that he would lose control of his temper. That's why I reminded it again in this way.

Yang Fan clenched his fists, he would vent all his anger and anger on the game, using the goal as an angry bullet, as a cannonball, and launch it!

Bomb a qiē!

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Players from both sides ran out of the players' tunnels, which set off the first time in the stands.

Every Arsenal player's name was read out on the radio was met with loud cheers and applause, with the loudest cheers when Cesc Fabregas's name was read, the young Spaniard a favourite of Gunners fans.

Correspondingly, the name of every Manchester United player will cause a large number of boos, and they will boo, not because they hate a certain player, but because these players are wearing Manchester United jerseys! This is a grudge between the two teams that has been fighting for more than ten years!

And when the Arsenal fans saw Yang Fan appear, they collectively booed very tacitly. Because of the war of words before the game, Yang Fan became the focus, and he was an important attacking player for Manchester United, so Arsenal fans naturally took care of him.

"It's really interesting. TV commentator Mortensen joked, "Wenger admires Yang Fan very much, but it's a pity that Arsenal doesn't have the courage to spend sky-high prices to bring in stars, otherwise, the Chinese striker is now wearing an Arsenal jersey." ”

Lineker also laughed, "In that case, now, Yang Fan is definitely the darling of the Emirates Stadium, Arsenal fans must like him very much, and Yang Fan is definitely greeted with thunderous applause." It's a pity for him, Arsenal is almost only a few centimeters away from Yang Fan. ”

"Haha. Arsene Wenger must not like to listen to what you have just said. Mortenson laughed.

As he spoke, Garasdi's name was shouted over the stadium radio, and the boos were replaced by loud cheers and applause.

"Welcome William—"

"- Garas!"

It was all cheering.

Wearing the captain's armband, Gallas, who walked at the front of the team, raised his arms, he was very excited, he enjoyed the feeling of cheering, he has been the captain of Arsenal for more than a year, however, Gallas has never really won the hearts of Arsenal fans, and to this day, there are still many Arsenal fans who think that Gallas is not worthy of the captain's armband.

Gallas didn't expect to receive such a crowd of cheers today.

In fact, the Arsenal fans cheered for Gallas, not only because he was the captain of the team, who needed to lead the team to victory in such an important game, but more importantly, Gallas's pre-match words. Wenger was furious and thought Gallas had done something stupid, but the fans were happy, they loved to hear that. Gallas opened fire on Manchester United's striker and won the hearts of Arsenal fans.

This is probably a situation that Gallas himself did not expect.

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Ferguson and Arsene Wenger shook hands politely at the crossing, separated as soon as they met, and then walked to their respective dugouts.

At this time, the big screen in the stadium played the starting lists of both sides of today's game.

Manchester United (4-4-2): 1-Van der Sar/22-O'Shea, 5-Rio Ferdinand, 15-Vidic, 22-O'Shea/7-C. Ronaldo, 18-Scholes, 4-Hargreaves, 17-Nani/10-Rooney, 9-Yang Fan

Arsenal (4-4-2): 1-Almunia/3-Sagna, 5-Toure, 10-Gallas, 22-Klich/27-Eboue, 4-Fabregas, 8-Nasri, 7-Rosicky/25-Adebayo, 11-Van Persie

Ferguson didn't look at the big screen, he had a list of Arsenal's starting eleven in his hand, glanced at it, Ferguson was stunned, and then looked up at the field.

Walcoat is not on the field!

Then Ferguson turned his head to look and saw the 'little tiger' on the Arsenal bench.

Ferguson's face changed. When he was working out his tactics, he predicted that Arsenal would bring on Theo Walcott, a young player who has been in good form of late and is almost certain to start. He didn't expect Wenger to send Walcott.

Arsene Wenger's hand caught Ferguson off guard, with Walcoat on the pitch and without Walcott, Arsenal has a different style of play. Tactics will also be adjusted accordingly. Obviously, the targeted tactics formulated by Ferguson before have lost their targeted effect with Wenger's change of tactics.

Ferguson turned his head to look at Arsene Wenger, who was sitting there.

This damn Frenchman. Ferguson scolded that he had lost a game before the game had even started, much to the displeasure of the old Scottish man.

It seemed that he knew that Ferguson would be angry, and Wenger happened to look over and saw Ferguson muttering in his mouth, and knew that he didn't have good words. It shows that the person is not in a good mood.

Arsene Wenger had a smile on his face and he won the first game.

The on-site director has been paying attention to the situation in the coach's bench on the sidelines, and immediately transmitted the close-up shots of the faces of the two head coaches to tens of millions of viewers.

The match between Arsenal and Manchester United, the wonderful way these two fought on the sidelines, it was not much inferior to the game on the field.

Lord Ferguson vs Professor Wen - In the first round, Arsene Wenger won the first game.