This'll probably get taken off as irrelavent, and rightly so but... I was talking to a bloke in the pub the other night who's a techie for ITV sport. He used to work for SKY and knows all the presenters, Gray, keys etc really well. Anyhow, not exactly earth-shattering stuff this but just so you know, when someone bangs one in from 25 yards and the old speedo spins like a fruitie and stops on 67.8 mph, its a load of old ballacks. Don't listen to "Sir Alex's" bum-chum Andy Gray talling you what an incredible strike it is, apparantly the lads in the studio simply pluck a random figure out of thin air and bung it on the screen. There is no speed-gun or any other means of calculating the shot uses (though I guess they could do it from watching the film if they cared to).
Apparantly, their byas is even evident here as well, remember Riise's free-kick against the Mancs? I think he hit that about as hard as I've ever seen a ball hit, it got a speed rating of about 65. next week you see Van-Horseface's penalty timed at 72? Do me a favour. The times I've pondered the authenticity of that 65mph rating. Come to think of it, it probably says more about me than it does about them.