Walcott scored 17 goals in the 2017-2018 season .
`` `` '' Walcott was informed by England manager Gareth Southgate on 16 March 2017 , his 28th birthday , that he was being dropped from the squad to play a friendly against Germany and a 2018 World Cup qualifier against Lithuania , despite scoring 17 goals in 29 appearances in all club competitions during the 2017-2018 season . ''
Theo Walcott