The world’s forgotten boy

SO young Theo Walcott is off to Germany this summer, and not on a school exchange programme either.

Sven Goran Eriksson — who admits he has only seen the 17-year-old playing competitively on video — could hardly have created a bigger surprise if he’d announced he was bringing along Theo Kojak, a man who made his living “lollipopping” opponents, as Big Ron used to say, back in the day.

Come to think of it, Sven would only ever have seen Kojak in action on the box too, so maybe we should be a little surprised that the great man hasn’t been included in a squad that is badly in need of some no-nonsense beefing up.