Who Is The Hardest-Working Player In The Premier League?
By Ollie Irish
A simple question to mull over on this grey Wednesday lunchtime: who is the hardest-working player in the Prem? I don’t mean in training or when it comes to chatting up prospective WAGs, but purely in competitive matches.
So who gets your vote for sheer, lung-busting graft?
A few perspiration-soaked names to get you going: Dirk Kuyt, Stephen Hunt, Darren Fletcher, John Terry, Carlos Tevez, James Milner, Nigel de Jong, Wayne Rooney, Scott Parker (pictured)… who else?
Let’s have it…
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Amr Zaki
Dirk Kuyt wins this easily
CLINT DEMPSEY
nigel de jong
Patrice Evra – Relentless runs up and down the flank for UNITED
Palacios
me, yong kah hoe!
Milner, Parkey and Kuyt. It´s between these three me thinks…
DIRK KUYT!
KUYT KUYT KUYT
JS Park!
Wilson palacios
kuyt and rooney. still remember rooney chasing back to help defence.
lee trundle
Tim Cahill, Leighton Baines,
Kuyt, Rooney and Tevez in that order… why are the handsome ones always such workhorses?…
berbatov
Ji-Sung Park
KUYT
Park, although he’s got the touch of a rapist.
I’d put Michael Carrick in amongst there with Valencia & Bellamy aswell
KUYT! ALL DAY!
dazza fletch!! never stops running!!
Ashley Cole sprints up and down the wing.
What would Fletch say?
John Terry, of course. He’s forever chasing the referee and pointing at things.
Wilson Palacios
Scotty Parker. He’s like a terrier on amphetamines.
Ji-Sung Park
gotta be Kuyt
J.S. Park
Behrami on West Ham
It seems the mid-lower table teams are composed of players who A) Have talent, but no work rate or B) little talent, but phenomenal work rate.
That said, all of your nominees are spot-on, I just think that there are too many players who all run their arses off week-in and week-out to have one single Hardest Working Player for the league.
Definitely JS Park. He is so underestimated but runs tirelessly to create space for Rooney.
Berbatov ofcourse :)
Jamie o Hara
Ashley cole..A rocket up and down the left flank.
the worst part of this for me is that there isnt an arsenal name even near anyones list. and rightfully so. my vote is for wayne rooney.
can only speak for my club…but a. cole & ballack put in a hell of a shift for us. not a popular opinion amongst sports “commentators” but week in, week out they cover more ground than anyone on the pitch. drogba also deserves a mention for the amount of work he gets through…ivanovic too.
i remember scotty parker working his a*** us every time he played too. but i only see him twice a season or on highlights nowadays. you can’t really judge unless you’re watching 90 mins every week.
Tim Cahill – he’s a running machine
berbatov
Brana Ivanovic
Tim Cahill
Jaaskeleinen has had a lot of work to do this year.
Rooney, did anyone see the sprint he made the length of the pitch to score his goal against Arsenal? Impressive!
Tevez
Berbatov?…lol..ok seriously,its Javier Mascherano!
Kuyt..comfortably
As a Liverpool fan I’m obviously going to say Dirk Kuyt.
I recall one game last season where we were winning comfortably (ah, those were the days…) and defending a corner in injury time. We cleared the corner (ah, those were the days…) and the ball went to an opposing player near the half way line. Dirk sprinted to close down the player, who then passed the ball back to his keeper. Dirk then continued sprinting to close the keeper down, and the under-pressure keeper sliced the ball out for a throw in to us about 20 yards from the other team’s goal.
There were about 3 seconds to go.
ROONEY ALL DAY EVERY DAY.
@Greg: Good times. I also remember ‘Pool being 4-0 up v Real somewhere deep in the second half, when the ball hobbled aimlessly towards the Real corner flag after a long clearance. What does Kuyt do? He chases it down. Should be Holland captain.
I would have to say Kuyt.
Although Rooney knows exactly how to time his energy output and is simply rewarded well by this in terms of goals and so, Kuyt is always running around (not making the best progress always) but clearly listens to Hillary Duff’s ‘Never Stop’.
Every ManU supporter will know Darren Fletchers work rate is outstanding BUT it has to be ROONEY without a doubt.
Palacios. And I’m Arsenal.
berbatov by a mile
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No doubt. It has to be Kuyt. Every single game he doesn’t stop running from end to end of the pitch, plus he made it to the World Cup final and was still running!
Alex Ferguson himself admitted that Kuyt is “Like a man with 2 hearts”
if its not tevez its Gerrard, tevez is just outright stamina built and gerrard has been rinning box to box since his debut
kuyt
YOU ONKEYS!!! HOW ABOUT STEVIE GERRARD….