Fastest, slowest, fittest!

[Karl]

Fastest, slowest, fittest! Exclusive survey reveals the speed merchants and the slouches at every Premier League club


By Sportsmail Reporter Last updated at 1:15 AM on 17th April 2011









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[Peter R]

Why I am not concerned that Reina is the slowest on Liverpool?

And a Jamaican is the slowest at Stoke ?!, come on Ricardo you ruining our image. LOL

[Karl]

Peter: Fuller was fast.
Over the years he has had quite a few injuries including injuries to his knees and back.

...and he is not getting any younger.

[Me]

Yes he has gotten slower, but I don't think they did the assessment based on raw speed because then Rory Delap, Higginbotham, Collins, Faye, Diao and a host of others at Stoke would be rated as the slowest. It is probably because of how slow he runs off the ball and he also dribbles extremely slowly on the edge of the box before accelerating past the defenders.

As you said he was fast. Very few people have the ability to dribble from their half of the field past the opposinug team and score. Fuller could do that when he was 20.

[Karl]

A comparison with our top speedster - Usian Bolt

23.2mph is his average speed over the 200m.That means he started at 0 mph and he got at some point to his top speed which is unknown and 23.2mph is his average.

I havent found his top speed for the 200m but acording to http://www.sportsscientists.com/2008...-analysis.html his top speed in the 100m race was 43.93 km/h or 27.3 mph.
At the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, Bolt's maximum velocity in the 100m final (as determined by biomechanical analysis that was conducted by a german scientific team) was 12.27 m/s at 65m, or 44.17 km/hr (27.3 mph).

Source Answers.com

There is speed and there is speed!