There’s only one footballer in the Premier League who weighs less than 59kg

We’ll give you a clue. You live there. He plays for Manchester United.

Size tends to matter less in football than it does in other contact sports and one of the great things about the beautiful game is that players of all shapes and sizes have flourished over the years. Football fans don’t tend to pore over a player’s height and weight as much as they do in, for example, rugby, American sports or, of course, boxing, but the folks at the Guardian have conducted a study of Premier League players’ weight and the results make for very interesting reading. The Guardian study separated all the players who have their weight listed on the Premier League website (564) into boxing weight categories and found that the vast majority of them would be classified as cruiserweights (154), with only a handful of heavyweights (18) and just one player who would be classed as a super featherweight (-59kg). That one player is Manchester United’s Jesse Lingard, who weighs in it at 58kg, just over nine stone in old money, which doesn’t come as a huge surprise considering that he’s listed as being 1.68m tall, just over five foot five. You can read more about the results of the study here; with all the talk of boxing we can’t help but think of hypothetical Premier League boxing matches. Ivanovic v Kolarov, anyone? Aguero v Sanchez? Rooney v Terry? At least any of those would be better than Drogba v Lehmann anyway… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybRbGakYyVQ