Updated 18.40
ENGLAND’S THEO WALCOTT will miss this year’s World Cup in Brazil after being ruled out for at least six months with a knee injury, his club, Arsenal has revealed.
Walcott suffered a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament of his left knee during Arsenal’s 2-0 FA Cup win at home to arch north London rivals Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday.
An Arsenal statement said Walcott is “expected to be out for at least six months, therefore missing the remainder of the (English) season and the World Cup in Brazil in the summer”.
Meanwhile, the FA have decided against punishing Walcott for his gesture signalling the scoreline during Saturday’s FA Cup third round win over Tottenham.
The Gunners forward made a ’2-0′ sign with his hands while being taken off injured at the Emirates which resulted in coins being thrown in his direction.
But the FA this afternoon released a statement to reveal that no action will be taken.
“The FA has contacted both Arsenal and Tottenham to seek their observations in relation to objects being thrown from both a home and away section of the crowd at different times during Saturday’s FA Cup tie,” the statement reads.
The FA condemns any such acts and will liaise with both clubs and the Metropolitan Police to identify those responsible and support the strongest sanctions available, including life bans.
“Meanwhile, in relation to the same fixture, The FA has contacted Arsenal’s Theo Walcott and reminded him of his responsibilities regarding a ‘scoreline’ gesture he made in front of away supporters during the game.
“The FA will not be taking any further disciplinary action.”
Originally posted at 16.00. Additional reporting by Ben Blake
Every game, players have to put up with the most poison insults from supporters, yet whenever they want to gave a bit back( even something as innocent as this) they are called out.
Why do supporters think they can hurl abuse (and coins) for 90 mins then go nuts when they get a bit back. Strap on a pair and deal with it!
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That tough going , got to feel for the guy
New name?? New year? & you’re still a muppet
They put the sheeny curse on him. I feared something like this could happen. Disaster
This is essentially the same as when Adebayor wound up the Arsenal supporters by celebrating in front of them. He got a fine and a suspended 2 game ban. Why didn’t Walcott even have to go to a hearing? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/manchester-city/6251453/Emmanuel-Adebayor-given-suspended-two-match-ban-for-Arsenal-celebration.html
Probably because Adebayor started it. Walcott was responding to abuse and coins hurled at him.
How can you compare walcott getting carried off on a stretcher and getting coins thrown at him with adebayor who ran the length of the field to celebrate scoring a goal in front of the arsenal supporters
i’m comparing them because both were getting abused during match and both wound up crowd. Thought Walcott only got things thrown at him after gesture. I’m just asking a genuine question here because they seemed similar to me
Very similar, only worse because Walcott was surrounded by poor medic bystanders
He was getting stick for the amount of time it took to get him off the pitch, not unnatural for supporters of a team chasing a game and especially when bitterest rivals. The Multimillionaire Walcott despite an injury couldn’t manage to ignore the bleating of the great unwashed so decided to try some hand signals and only then did coins rain in on him. Only have some sympathy for the stretcher bearers and as someone else pointed out the World Cup thing is very much schadenfreude…..
Massive blow to chances of winning league….we need everyone fit n healthy throughout season to have some chance of picking up silverware….still f@ck it…we can still do it.
Arsenal usually capitulate at this stage of a title race; unless they are competing for a Champions League place with the likes of Spurs and Everton, in which case they always squeak fourth.
Erm nope! Arsenal don’t capitulate at this stage, they’re usually already out of the title race at this stage and suddenly pick up their form in the New Year to push for a top-4 spot. If we show similar form while already top of the pile then we’re more than in with a shot. That said, it’s a tighter race this year than in past seasons!
england could do with him!
Townsend will benefit, how ironic!
2-1 now I reckon!
He’s still a multi-millionaire with a solid gold house and 5 or 6 lingerie-model girlfriends, and now he has several months to do nothing but “rest”, so; 3-1
Lots of disagrees from the fat acne boys…
Ruru must be a spuds fan
Actually I’m a Reading fan :)
I’m a Spurs fan; many of our own support let themselves down this weekend…by throwing coins at a millionaire. I don’t like seeing any player injured, even a Gooner.
Nice one Ann-Marie.
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Twenty…. Was that the age the last time you got your rocks?? Or 1st & only time you ever got it?
Wawawaaaaaaaaaaa…..now that’s what I call schadenfreude folks!!
That was far from innocent. He didn’t have to do it, and it was purely to aggravate the crowd.
Because he’s English he somehow gets away with it, but if that was a foreign player then the FA would bring down the hammer. (See Suarez and Terry’s respective racism bans despite there being evidence of Terry actually saying those things)
He should be fined for taunting them (since he’s somehow a role model) and Tottenham should be fined for their fan’s behaviour. A few hundred thousand taken out of their transfer fund would stop some of the abuse and act as a warning to fans of other clubs.
Zero tolerance is the only way to cut it out.
Wouldn’t make difference, he’s out for 6 months.
Haha posh little mammys boy
Won’t make a difference England are good enough anyway
Exactly, absolutely spot on Will.