The Gunners of recent lost to Barcelona, Manchester United and Swansea and drew 2-2 with Tottenham at White Hart Lane their season was in danger of unravelling. As the situation stands, their chance of claiming the title is in massive blow the to their latest poor run of form.
It was revealed that Petr Cech, Per Mertesacker, Tomas Rosicky and Mikel Arteta led the crisis meeting with manager Arsene Wenger unaware of it.
Walcott said: “We are not going to lie - we know as a unit it has been tough and we all had a good chat amongst us behind closed doors, without even any of coaches or the manager knowing about anything.
“I think it is important that as a team [to know] we have got it in us. We just have to produce it more often.
“You had a sense of the Tottenham game especially, when you go down to ten men in a big game like that, the belief and the character was there.
“The never-give-up spirit was there as well. In the derby matches, they could be the matches that turn your season and we may have turned the corner maybe.
“We have quite a lot of experienced players in the dressing room. It came from Cech, Mikel, Per and Tomas. We have four good old heads there.
“I’d like to keep what was said among ourselves but it was very important. We have had a reaction from it anyway.
“The manager probably knows about it anyway - he’s got ears everywhere at the club. The manager respects the players’ privacy and what’s happening personally amongst us all.
"It was a meeting to express how everyone was feeling basically and it worked.”
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