The Race for Pace ; Everyone Wants a Flyer Like Lennon, Except Defenders

Daily Mail › November 25, 2008

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WHEN my dad is researching a recommended new signing, the first question he will ask his scouts is: 'How quick is the lad?' If the target is a defender, he'll be looking for that destructive recovery speed that will give him a chance of coping with the dynamic pace of an attacker.

For a forward, it's that goalcreating acceleration that will panic a defence, create chances and win you a game. We've been seeing a lot of that in the Barclays Premier League recently.

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The Race for Pace ; Everyone Wants a Flyer Like Lennon, Except Defenders

Pace changes matches. Aaron Lennon, Theo Walcott, Cristiano Ronaldo, Ashley Young, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Fernando Torres or Gabriel Agbonlahor --...

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