Consider this, in general the quickest footballer over 15-20 yards will be the one who can accelerate the most rapidly.

Straight away then, that should tell you something about speed training for football - running lots of 100m sprints is not an effective method of training.

The first edition of drills/exercises of the week by www,Keepitonthedeck.com.  We take a look at training ground exercises that caught the eye.  

Has anyone ever visited an arcade with one of those old pinball machines?.  Some people take their time with the controls, careful to judge and plan when to press the buttons, the classic decision making approach.  On the other hand you have those who simply press those controls frantically hoping that by luck or faith one of their shots will come good, a frantic approach at speed and with little thought or care.  Football now day’s has resemblance to both those approaches.