| Theo Walcott may not yet have secured his seat on England's World
Cup plane to South Africa, but he could hardly have turned in a better
audition than the performance he produced in front of England manager
Fabio Capello at Emirates Stadium.
Nicklas Bendtner scored the first-half goal and Cesc Fabregas the
injury-time penalty that defeated a sterile Sunderland side but
it was Walcott who produced the pace and the menace.
At times it had shades of Zagreb 2008, the night Walcott scored
a hat-trick against Croatia which set England on the right course
in their World Cup qualifying campaign.
There were no goals this time but if you want a winger to terrorise
defenders, then Walcott in this mood does it better than most.
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