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22nd Aug 2018

Theo Walcott as an Angry Bird is the most brilliant / disturbing thing you’ll see today

Simon Lloyd

Admit it. You’ve often found yourself lying awake at night wondering what Theo Walcott would look like as an Angry Bird.

Good news, then. Thanks to Everton’s partnership with the Rovio Entertainment video game, Walcott is one of three players who appear to have been made into Angry Birds. Great news.

A tweet from Everton, who agreed a deal for Angry Birds to become their first ever sleeve partner last season, revealed that Walcott – along with teammates Gylfi Sigurdsson and Cenk Tosun – had become the first ever footballers to feature in the game.

Brace yourselves…

Pretty spectacular, we’re sure you agree.

Although this is something that’s almost certainly aimed at younger football fans, it’s certainly managed to spark quite a reaction with older supporters.

Walcott’s involvement is of particular interest. Once regarded as the brightest prospect in English football, some appear amused by the fact he’s now ended up as an Angry Bird…

The above-beak positioning of the Walcott bird’s facial hair (birds have facial hair?) has also caused a fair bit of debate.

https://twitter.com/AllanSmith80/status/1032211997562163200

And then there’s the fact that it looks a bit like the general manager of a Slough-based branch of Wernham-Hogg paper merchants…

Modern football, eh? Absolutely fantastic.

https://twitter.com/mazzajfairbanks/status/1032210535721394176

Walcott – the non-Angry Bird version – was on the scoresheet for Everton as they beat his former club Southampton at the weekend. The 29-year-old opened the scoring in the game, helping Marco Silva’s side to a 2-1 victory.