It´s been a big week for ´outing´. First Treasury Secretary David Laws by the Daily Torygraph, now Arsenal´s sole representative in England´s World Cup squad, Forrest Walcott by Don Fabio.

Between frequent injuries Theo has spent over 4 years sprinting along the touchline like Forrest Gump. Fortunately neither Highbury nor our new stadium is open ended, preventing our headless chicken speed merchant from running out of the stadium into the sunset a la Tom Hanks

I´ve screamed `Run Forrest Run!' in admiration of his pace but with little hope that he´ll actually do something, anything, with the ball. Once in a very long while he´ll choose the correct option - pass, cross, shoot. It´s not that complicated for a full time professional sportsman after years of coaching but seems beyond our boy who has not grown with experience either physically or mentally.

He's lived off the hat-trick in Croatia for almost two years. First Waddle (who we could ignore), then Merse (who knows) and now crucially the England manager have reached the same conclusion. Walcott is an athlete who kicks a ball rather than a footballer with blistering speed - more chance at London 2012 than South Africa 2010.