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Byline: MATT LAWTON

SVEN Goran Eriksson's failure to use Theo Walcott for a single minute ofthe last World Cup baffled some and enraged others.

Walcott's father, a charming, endearingly enthusiastic bloke called Don, was soangry at the end of one match he turned to a guy in an England shirt whohappened to be standing next to him and declared exactly what he thought of theSwede.

'I don't think you've got any chance of playing now,' Don later confessed toTheo. 'I've just slaughtered Sven to his son.' Eriksson actually saw the funnyside of it when the story was retold to him but what the then England coach hadalready realised was the simple truth ...

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