Walcott says players have let manager down

The England winger has been one of the club’s better performers recently during one of their worst runs in years.

“The boss is a great man, he can deal with anything thrown at him,” said Walcott.

“He’s been at the club for over 15 years and so he’s not under any pressure at all. Us players, we need to look at ourselves and start doing it on the pitch, to be honest. A lot of people say about the defensive sort of issue but it’s not just the back four, you need to look at defending as a whole team.
We haven’t managed to do that, to be honest, so we need to make sure we’re at it against Bolton at the weekend.”