Getty ImagesWalcott picks a fight he can't win and #losergate riles Pulis
Chelsea may be riding high atop of the Premier League table but they weren't grabbing the headlines this weekend. Nope, the big talking points are Tony Pulis' phone call to his former Stoke captain and Theo Walcott attempting the impossible - win a fight against two giant Hull players...
1) Don’t make Theo Walcott angry, you’ll really like him when he’s angry
Hull’s attempts to stifle Arsenal at the Emirates resulted in the rarely spotted, but always excellent, Angry Theo Walcott.
The polite young Theo took it upon himself to square up to both Harry Maguire and Tom Huddlestone, both roughly three feet taller than him.
Walcott eventually appreciated the funny side though posting this image accompanied by a bunch of arm muscle flexing emojis...
2) Pitch inspection of the week
There we go then. Clive and Margaret’s front lawn is now the official FA benchmark for getting a game on.
3) Arsenal fans don’t make life easy for themselves, Pt. 14,936
They got away with it this time though.
4) Banner of the week
Extra marks for the shading underneath the lettering, but absolutely zero marks for everything else.
5) Uh-oh...
If there’s one thing Mauricio Pochettino doesn’t like, it’s his teams allowing the most shots on target since people started bothering to count this sort of thing back in 2003.
6) Minor controversy of the season contender
Presented without any additional comment:
7) Goal celebration of the week
Forget Alfie Mawson’s little dance at Swansea, here’s some good, honest non-league lager drinking.
8) Leicester go from bad to worse... to this
Simpson was later substituted.
9) Tall story
That’s two Shaquille O'Neal-related tweets for the price of one this week folks.
10) Bench pressing
Strange goings on among the Chelsea substitutes here. Anyway, Fabregas still managed to find Willian with an inch-perfect through ball.
11) Retro tweet of the week
Oh, Gary. This is doing some serious #numbers now.
