England manager Roy Hodgson is adamant that Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain won't receive the same treatment that Theo Walcott did back at the 2006 World Cup.
Walcott was called up by Sven-Goran Eriksson at the age of 17 six years ago for the World Cup in Germany having not played a single game for Arsenal.
However his teammate Oxlade-Chamberlain, who was called up to the Euro 2012 squad on Wednesday, has made a number of appearances for the Gunners this season.
"I'm pretty sure that Sven selected Walcott for the right reasons but maybe it just turned out that Walcott wasn't quite up to it at that time when push came to shove," Hodgson said.
"But I am expecting that when we do our training sessions that Oxlade-Chamberlain will now be able to deal with that situation and won't be over-awed by the Gerrards, the Lampards, the Barrys and the Parkers.
"I'm expecting him to stand up to that. I don't know - but there's only one way to find out and that's to sling him in at the deep end because even if he doesn't swim he'll soon learn to swim in future."
Oxlade-Chamberlain signed for Arsenal from Southampton last summer having just helped the Saints to promotion from League One.
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