Who is United's fastest young player?

One of the fastest players at Manchester United returned to action at the weekend when Ro-Shaun Williams captained the Under-18s in the 'mini-derby' against Manchester City.

The 2-0 defeat to City was Williams's first appearance of this season, after injury had delayed his bid to build on an excellent 2015/16 when the teenager even got as far as being named as a first-team substitute, for the home matches against West Ham in the FA Cup and Liverpool in the Europa League.

The centre-back spent a large part of the campaign with the title-winning Under-21 squad and often showcased his acceleration and natural athleticism - attributes which helped him to make local headlines a couple of years ago. In 2014, Williams broke the 100 metres sprint record at Ashton-on-Mersey School in Sale, a record that had been held for 25 years by Olympic relay gold-medalist - and famous United fan - Darren Campbell.

When asked recently by ManUtd.com whether he might have become a full-time sprinter instead of a footballer, Ro-Shaun replied: "No, never. I never really did athletics – it was just on my sports day at school. I was never pushed into it. I liked football more and played it all the time when I was younger."

You might think Williams's sprinting exploits as a schoolboy would make him a certainty for the title of speediest player at United but he claims there are others within the ranks who are even quicker than he is.

"We do speed testing and there are quite a lot of fast players in the squad," he explained.

"Tim [Fosu-Mensah] is fast, Axel [Tuanzebe] and Marcus [Rashford] - all of them are very fast so we have quite a good competition between us. We do it in the gym.

"Am I the quickest? [Laughs] No, Tim is probably the fastest!"

After completing 90 minutes for the Under-18s on Saturday, Williams will no doubt hope to be involved with the Reserves again soon - and to put his pace to good use in the new Premier League 2 competition.