Lennon and Walcott present vibrant possibility
Date: 15-07-2006 23:29
They looked like a couple of kids on holiday with their parents, coming in from a day at the beach. They were strolling along, chatting happily to each other, smiling and occasionally looking around with interest, their faces unshadowed by the catastrophe of the preceding two hours and unconscious of the challenges that lie ahead.
As Sven-Goran Eriksson's players circled the pitch in Gelsenkirchen on a lap of farewell salute to their fans on Saturday evening there was a marked contrast between the demeanour of the older men and that of the two youngest members of the squad. Steven Gerrard's head was bowed, his eyes unseeing, his thoughts unknowable. A few yards behind him in the slow-moving raggle-taggle procession Aaron Lennon and Theo Walcott may have been taking the first steps into England's future.
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