Theo Walcott can still picture the paparazzi. Photographers parking up and spending the whole night outside his family home in the tiny Berkshire village of Compton.
Hounding him because he was the 16-year-old wonderkid signed by Arsenal from Southampton for £12million, then the 17-year-old called up to Sven-Goran Eriksson’s England squad for the 2006 World Cup before he had played a game for the Gunners.
Except there was a time when his neighbours had his back. They moved their own cars to trap in one stalking snapper so he could not tail their talented teenager and his then girlfriend, now wife, Mel,
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