robert_psv wrote:
He isn't the best, he's the fastest
actually, after a study done this past year of the speeds of premier league footballers, Ronaldo is the fastest.
More surprisingly, Ronaldo and Wright-Phillips are faster with the ball than without it.
About a month ago Andy Johnson was clocked as the fastest Premiership player without the ball, but I'd rather Wright-Phillips and Ronaldo were faster than him
Everyone knows that Cristiano Ronaldo is rapid and that Andrew Johnson's pretty fly for a white guy, but just who is the the fastest footballer in the Premier League?
No it's not pixie pacemen Aaron Lennon or Shaun Writh-Phillips - amazingly both of them are slower than Sunderland's big man, Kenwyne Jones, who is fourth fastest.
Less surprisingly the Premier League's speed king is Manchester United's Ronaldo, who has been clocked racing to the ball at 20.9mph and run with the ball - obviously, not dribble, but more of a kick and chase - 0.1mph faster.
The sprint parade top 10, put together by Opta Sportsdata, is as follows (the first figure is to the ball, the second with it):
1. Cristiano Ronaldo (Man Utd): 20.9mph -- 20.8mph
2. Andrew Johnson (Everton): 20.6 -- 20.7
3. Fernando Torres (Liverpool): 20.5 -- 20.6
4. Kenwyne Jones (Sunderland): 20.7 -- 20.2
5. Ashley Young (Aston Villa): 20.4 -- 20.3
6. Aaron Lennon (Tottenham): 20.6 -- 19.6
7. Cameron Jerome (Birmingham): 20.3 -- 20.1
8. Shaun Wright-Phillips (Chelsea): 18.9 -- 21.2
9. Jermain Defoe (Portsmouth): 20.4 -- 19.2
10. David Bentley (Blackburn): 20.0 -- 19.8
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"I love him, I think he's great. He's transformed the sport in so many ways. Every person in cycling has benefitted from Lance Armstrong, perhaps not financially but in some sense" - Bradley Wiggins on Lance Armstrong
Deadpool wrote:
Who cares about science, Lennon is uncatchable when he gets going (the size helps, he looks like Jerry of Tom and Jerry fame)
yup, who cares about science. Religion is the answer. All hail the flying spaghetti monster. Let him caress my soul with his noodly appendage Edited by issoisso on 26-03-2008 19:36
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"I love him, I think he's great. He's transformed the sport in so many ways. Every person in cycling has benefitted from Lance Armstrong, perhaps not financially but in some sense" - Bradley Wiggins on Lance Armstrong
I seem to think that it would be hard to judge when someone is actually sprinting full out, and SWP is more likely to chase the ball all out than when chasing back, or without the ball
I just converted to Pastafarianism, not because I believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster, but because the 1st commandment is to punch any septuagenarian Jehovah's Witnesses who comes to your door Edited by Deadpool on 26-03-2008 23:08
