What is the fastest animal on the planet?
Interestingly, the answer isn’t a cheetah, a bird or even a quick silver fish. It is in fact (according to the humourist Dave Barry) a cow…..that has been dropped out of a helicopter! In the animal world where survival is everything there is no substitute for pace and the same could be said of the Premier League, at least, that’s what most managers and TV pundits will tell you. So, who has the quickest feet in the EPL? The best pick-up and the fastest flat-out speed? It perhaps shouldn’t come as too much of a suprise to learn that the man in question is Arsenal and England star Theo Walcott. Theo Walcott on the blocks in a pair of Nike Mercurial Vapor IV football boots. Using data captured over the last two seasons, Castrol have calculated the top speeds of every Premier League player and Walcott came out on top reaching 22.72 mph. And taking a shock second place, and proving that there’s life in the old dog yet, was Portsmouth defender Sol Campbell who recorded a hugely impressive 22.
