Eurosport - Fri, 21 Nov 08:57:00 2008
Arsenal and England star Theo Walcott has undergone surgery on his dislocated right shoulder and will not return until at least February.
Walcott suffered the injury on England duty ahead of the friendly win against Germany and is expected to be out for at least three months.
The 19-year-old has struggled with injuries in both shoulders since joining in Arsenal in 2006. He missed several months after having his left shoulder pinned in 2007, and damaged it again in a recent Premier League game against Stoke.
Arsenal are increasingly worried about the winger's hereditary weakness, and manager Arsene Wenger is concerned that he has become a target for strong challenges from opponents.
Wenger has questioned the timing of the clash in Berlin but refused to blame the FA for the training-ground accident, and is yet to decide whether the club will pursue compensation.
"I'm disappointed because he is an important part of the squad, but that could have happened in training here," Wenger said.
"It was an accident that could have happened anywhere.
"I do not blame the FA for that. It was accidental in training and I accept that.
"In a moment like that you do not think about compensation you think about how you can replace the player."
The FA confirmed that they would be prepared to pay compensation as they insure all national team players to the tune of £100,000 per week in lost wages.
Walcott was taken to hospital in agony after suffering the dislocation in a freak accident as he fell in the rain at the Olympic Stadium.
Although Walcott's shoulder was quickly put back into place, the player was in discomfort when he returned to England's team hotel, where an assessment was made over his return to London.
"We are all very disappointed but the important thing is for Theo to travel home and make a quick recovery," England manager Fabio Capello said on Tuesday.
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liverpool are rubbish yea dude
oh sh** he is just sh**
i know i know spelling mistakes no1 is perfect....
you ladies here drealise rugby is emant to be a contact sport? rugby players work out and build muscles. soccer players dont.
you guys are so stupid
of course a rugby player wont cry cause his tanked!!
Gazfox - You are a top man! Great words.
ha ha ha ... i LOVE a bit of banter, and like even more having been the catalyst ! The true fact is that, though i love football, i am sickened by the lying, cheating , fake antics of footballers falling in agony without nary a contact! Compare this to rugby players who are real men,, accept refereeing decisions normally without question, and would no more feign injury, or succumb to one if humanly possible, than i would reject a dunkin donut with a cup of tea! In ccomparison, football players are overpaid, immature crybaby primadonas... there simp;y is NO ARGUMENT
Eddy dont talk @#$% rooney wasnt just pulled out for the England game if u knew anything you would know that rooney and ferdinand both missed the Last league game the weekend before the germany match but u are obviously just a prat thats blinkered by hatred for fergie , one way of overcomeing this problem u have would maybe be thinking before opening you mouth you moron
that wenger is such a @#$%...such a moaner...so because lame walcott is out he wants to go and sulk to the other teams and say it will be interesting to see if they play next week in the champions league...even if it is a minor injury would you put your top players at risk to play in some bum game against germany...if he wants to then go ahead...fine but dont try and put the guilt trip on other teams.
Eddy _7777 Your a prize prat, Sir Alex is a pro & would not players careers or country places /caps at risk , these players need to get their caps to gain a better status in the playing game & a better price tag on their head. so with the greatest you @#$% think if you can b4 you speak.
the three manchester united players have chickened out ot the England game. once again Alec Ferguson has tried to weaken England , as he has many times before.
veteran kid
you are wrong. The examples in rugby are in the hundreds. Broken shoulder (The New Zealander Matai in this year's rugby league world cup was playing with bits of his shoulder broken and pinned into his shoulder muscle). Wilkinson played with a badly twisted ankle when he scored the drop-goal tht won the world cup. that ankle required a 2 months break but he dismissed it. The old captain of the All Blacks played with with an inflamed neck despite he was a @#$%. Another cut his finger so he does not miss the world cup with an injury in it. An Australian forward stapled the skin of a front injury and ten taped it to continue playing the game. The examples are in the hundreds... So leave rugby alone! :-)
The boy is a biscuit, he cracks as soon as he falls to the ground..
Agger has played with a dislocated finger? And what about the keeper that played years ago with a broken neck, never seen that from a rugby player.
It may have passed you by Nothingman (top name) that rugby players use their hands to pass the ball and make tackles. As for being a bloody moron, maybe true, but the odds are lessened by not being a soccer fan.
liverpool rule
yea
dude
And you are comparing a finger to a shoulder?! Are you a bloody moron?
Let's hope his recovery takes a long long time.
Nice one Gazfox! Do you recall that incident last season when James Hook playing for Wales against Australia (I think) dislocated a finger during a tackle, ran off to have it popped back in place, then ran back on again to make another tackle in the same move? Most soccer players, possibly all would still be writhing around in "agony".
Arsenal won't be paying a fortune out in wages for poor Theo, he is "only" on £20000 per week! Probably the reason why the poor sap dislocated his shoulder, he had to stir his own tea as he can't afford to pay a butler.
Walcott is a good player but always seems to get injured a lot im sure Arsenal can manage withthout him (shame)who realy cares.
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