Wilshere disagrees with Walcott over Dowman World Cup call-up
Wilshere disagrees with Walcott over Dowman World Cup call-up Jack Wilshere has seemingly disagreed with Theo Walcott by suggesting it wouldn’t be a bad idea for England to take Max Dowman to the World Cup this summer. Photo by Alex Pantling/Getty Images A couple of weeks ago, former Arsenal winger Theo Walcott suggested Max Dowman shouldn’t go to the World Cup with England, even if he receives a call-up. “I hope he [Dowman] doesn’t go,” Walcott said .
“I don’t mean it in a horrible way, [but] because if I could go back in time, I would change things. I would say to myself ‘no, no, don’t do it’, but then try telling that to a 17-year-old! “In time he will go, yes, but I don’t think this is the time and I think there are better players who arguably deserve to be there ahead of him.
” Photo by Alex Pantling/Getty Images Walcott knows a thing or two about being a young player in the England squad, having been called up for the 2006 World Cup at 17. But another former Arsenal and England wonderkid in Jack Wilshere has a different opinion on the matter. “The only thing I would say is, Spain would take him,” Wilshere told The Telegraph .
“That’s what I think. We have this way at times in England of building them up but then protecting them. You get caught in that [place]: ‘If he goes what will people say?
’ “He is definitely good enough. Even if he goes and he doesn’t play that much. Which I think he can.