You do realize that Pope has a faster 100m PB than Lingard? In short: Pope is fast.
But, i don’t know if it’s 7 on 7 … but I’m seeing less football/track athletes. That said, I would still take a 4.5 (maybe even a 4.6) “football player” over a 4.3 athlete who plays football.
it’s like anything else, you work at it. But you or your coach has to know what they’re doing. The biggest problem is most S&C do not know how to teach speed and that’s why most football players don’t improve their 40 from high school to college.
@Lance Roffers wrote a few weeks back that Greedy Williams was 4.7
I’ve been waiting for two years to see what Michael Jackson runs at the combine.