Arsenal star striker sets new Guinness World Record

Arsenal striker Theo Walcott really is having a good year. 

The striker started this season better than any other, banging in six Premier League goals already. 

His wife Melanie just gave birth to a second child. And now he’s set a Guinness World Record. 

Walcott set the record for the highest altitude a football is dropped and controlled. 

Competing alongside team-mates Laurent Koscielny, Francis Coquelin and Nacho Monreal, it was Walcott who managed to control a ball dropped from a crane at a staggering height of 34 metres Walcott broke the previous record, which stood at 32 metres. 

To register a successful attempt the player had to control the ball by keeping it off the ground for five touches.