Who would be in your all-time BHA 4*100m relay team?

[pork pie]

Where the hell did that random question come from? You must look at a computer screen too much!

That is a really interesting one as well. Footballers (and indeed most sportsmen) usually train for short explosive sprints - I wonder if many footballers could sustain their pace for 100m? Gary Hart must be in with a shout - was he not tested as one of the fastest at some point? LuaLua obviously, and wasn't Eliot Bennett as sprinter at some point? Who else?

 

[Mark24]

Dave Armstrong - fastest player I ever saw at the Goldstone... ball control let him down a bit though...!

 

[El Presidente]

Guy Butters,warren aspinal,steve claridge and phil stant

if they were all chasing a Greggs pasty, that could be correct.

 

[west upper king]

buckley is faster than all of these

 

[Deleted member 18477]

Noone
Buckley
CMS
Lua Lua

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Dave Armstrong for me. Fast as a greyhound, but unfortunately kicked a ball like one too!!

 

[muvs]

Mark Gall is unoffically the fastest post war player we have ever had, he came 2nd in the football league sprint challenge, although he had forgotten his boots and ran it in shoes, gary hart is a def in his early years, cms is like sh it off a shovel from a standing start and the other would be any Palace fan...cos there some of the quickest runners i ve ever seen!!

 

[Davey Boy Smith]

John Williams was the flying postman. Mark Gall represented the Albion.

Wasn't it Mike Small? He was pretty quick. Sure the show was Saint & Greavesie?

 

[murraymints4brighton]

Anyone remember Gavin Hoyet? Fastest 100m in the ARSENAL squad.

 

[Brownstuff]

Anyone remember Gavin Hoyet? Fastest 100m in the ARSENAL squad.

His Mum sprinted for Britain too Wendy Hoyte

Funny I can't think of any old Albion speedsters
Can only remember the slow bastards

 

[WhingForPresident]

Anyinsah was pretty nippy if I remember rightly.

 

[Giraffe]

Hart
Walker
Peter Smith
Lua lua

 

[Guy Fawkes]

I seem to recall also that one of the TV companies organised a competition years ago to find the fastest footballer, running 100m in football boots. Think it was won by a Swansea player they called the Flying Postman, but I'm pretty sure also that Stuart Storer, in his Bolton days, was up there. Funny, as I don't particularly remember him being outstandingly fast when he played for us.

I'm sure when Storer joined us we were told that he could run 100m in under 10 seconds but as you say, i don't remember him being exceptionally fast

 

[disgruntled h blocker]

Wayne Gray (gave up sprinting to play football)
Nathan Jones
Will Buckley
Lua Lua

With the reserve team of:
Guy Butters
Warren Aspinall
Darren Currie
Robbie Savage (well he never moved much...)

 

[Gwylan]

Dave Armstrong for me. Fast as a greyhound, but unfortunately kicked a ball like one too!!

Dave Armstrong was lightning quick - fastest I've seen. He'd have to be first in the squad (terrible footballer though)

OGH was fast for us in his early days

 

[Rogero]

Dave Armstrong - fastest player I ever saw at the Goldstone... ball control let him down a bit though...!

Yes Dave Armstrong. Trained with UK athletics team.No ball control as you say.

 

[DumLum]

100 metres is a hell of a long way for a footballer to run. We watch Noone and Lua Lua blow away big defenders over 10 and 20 metres, my money would be on them getting caught by the tall defenders over 100. Compare the physique of Noone and Usain Bolt....a slight difference?

I would put my £1 on Ankergren in the current team: 50p each way at 500/1.

 

[ifightbears]

vicente

 

[mune ni kamome]

Has to be Dave Armstrong. Sometimes forgot to take the ball with him unfortunately. And Peter Ward in his pomp could not be caught once he got away. And he did have the ball with him and under control

 

[e77]

Of recent years:

Hart
Broker
Noone
Lualua