The speedy Soviet was one of the most exciting players in the league during his four-year spell at Old Trafford, and United fans will forever remember his devastating hat-trick against Manchester City in November Two of his goals were the direct result of his pace, as he nonchalantly streaked past Terry Phelan and the rest of the City defence with aplomb.
The man with the oddest shaped head in world football never really set the Old Trafford pitch alight with his talents. Obertan collected the ball from a Patrice Evra throw-in, drove at the Wolfsburg defence and then shimmied his way through, before laying the ball back for Michael Owen to score.
Dunne played in every round as United progressed to the final, and he was tremendous as the Red Devils overcame Benfica at Wembley.
Steve Coppell had a clever footballing brain too, which made him seem even faster, and he constantly marauded down the right flank for eight seasons until a horrendous knee injury forced him to retire. This season, Patrice Evra has shot back into form with a series of terrific displays at left-back, whilst he has also added a goal-scoring element that had been missing from his game. Chelsea However, on his day, he can be as influential as any Red Devil, and his preposterous speed is uniquely coupled with a rolodex of tricks that has bamboozled many a defender.
Maybe the greatest player to ever play for Manchester United, George Best had everything you wanted in a footballer. Best was skillful, strong, composed and quick, and he deployed these attributes throughout his illustrious, but short, playing career. On Giggs, who retired as a player on Monday to become assistant to new Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal, he was blunt and to the point. Not for the first time, Ferguson got it spot on.
When he assessed the contribution of a scrawny little lad from Cardiff, who had moved north as a kid when his rugby league-playing father signed for Swinton, Ferguson was watching the grace and balance of a footballer for whom changing direction at maximum speed was no hardship. Giggs will be remembered chiefly for the goal he scored against Arsenal at Villa Park in , which booked a place in the final en route to that historic Treble and was recently voted the best in the history of the FA Cup.
Yet the goal itself was no real surprise. By that point, he had already been skipping past defenders for eight years in the manner he left Martin Keown and Lee Dixon for dead that night. But by the time Ferguson offered his revised assessment of Giggs, the Welshman's role had changed to that of a midfield schemer.
More significantly, he had amassed a medal collection it is impossible to imagine anyone ever getting close to. He made appearances for the club and scored goals. To put those achievements in context, England midfielder Frank Lampard is widely considered to be one of the best players in Chelsea's greatest ever team.
He has won the league on three occasions. To put them into even starker relief, Giggs is level with Arsenal in terms of championships won. Only Liverpool and Manchester United themselves have more English titles.
Until the finest ten players settle into a pair of blocks, however, they'll never be a definitive way of unveiling the true speed king of the Premier League. Nevertheless, there are ways we can get close and since the season, Opta has collected data for English football's premier division concerning the speed of their players. As well as recording the number of sprints a player executes during a game, the top speed they reach during some of these explosive runs are also documented. This is all condensed into figures in kilometres per hour and can be used to compare between players.
Well, the Premier League revealed the data on their official website on Friday and it makes for interesting reading to say the least.
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