Relative to Eboue even Bolt is a bit of a snail tbh.
I know DM is a bit of a statto so here's some info on 'no-pace' Walcott
http://www.soccerbible.com/news/gen...-speed-burst-makes-him-olympic-contender.aspx
So the stat is he ran around the outside of a known to be slow Maxwell, and this somehow proves his pace?
Amongst the few links a few of you showed, well, firstly they all randomly come up with a different list of whose fastest, and more importantly they don't say how they do this.
LIkewise I didn't say its impossible he is fast, I said, when on the pitch has he proven he's faster than other people. Again I'll point out, the left back matched him over a 40 yard run as Walcott went after a ball he kicked ahead of him, Walcott rarely beats his man, if he was the fastest player in the league bar none, then why don't we see him beat his man consistantly for pace in every single game he plays?
I said, he doesn't use his pace, his pace is not a weapon. If Bolt played as right wing for Arsenal, but never ran at full speed, and never just kicked the ball beyond the left back and ran after it full pace........ he wouldn't be using his pace as a weapon in the game.
Thats what I was saying, I can remember 2-3 occasions OVER 4 YEARS, where Walcott has produced something purely out of his pace, and a hundred other players do it on a weekly basis.
The list that has him down as the fastest, has Campbell down as the SECOND fastest in the league....... so how many of you think Campbell uses his pace as a weapon, for instance, more effectively than Torres, because the people saying Walcott is the fastest, say Campbell is faster than Torres.
It doesn't tell you how the stats were decided, what they measure, and Walcott's pace is measured over 2 seasons of football? How? They don't say.
Walcott might be fast, but he doesn't run fast WITH THE BALL, Henry/Messi can blow people away for pace WITH the ball, ask Bolt to run in a 100metre line while dribbling a football, honestly, you think he'd be the fastest guy in the world? He'd probably be slower than every single premiership footballer doing so.
All I ever ruddy hear with Walcott, he's useless but his pace is devestating, its his only weapon, without pace he'd be nothing. All I'm saying is, I've yet to see a single game he's for 90 minutes(or even 20 minutes) been such a massive threat down to pace that he's ripped teams apart. dozens of players use the pace they do have more effectively on the wing, I just can't stand people saying, Walcott what pace........ he doesn't ruddy use it. Watch the next game he plays, see when he picks up the ball and a Rooney, Ronaldo, Messi will accelerate to full pace and run around a player, 99 out of a 100 times Walcott will casually jog with the ball and as he approaches a player he slows down rather than go around them, its what he does. I can't understand someone who consistantly refuses to use his pace, being described as a pacey player.
