Midfielder could strike a ball at more than 100mph and became Leeds’ record scorer after making his debut aged 15
Peter Lorimer invariably struck the ball so hard it seemed almost surprising his shots did not leave vapour trails as they flew, inexorably, towards the back of numerous nets.
During his Leeds prime the attacking midfielder, who has died aged 74, joined celebrated goalscoring counterparts of the era, most notably Bobby Charlton and Francis Lee, on a newspaper-sponsored visit to a Midlands munitions factory. The idea was to prove, conclusively, that Lorimer could hit a football harder than anyone else and the elite group duly had a series of shots tested by a machine more commonly used to measure the velocity of bullets.
