Vinny used to be reasonably quick, lescott was 'ok' for pace when younger & Kolo was fast.
Real Madrid, Barca, Spurs, Utd, Bayern Munich all have some cbs quicker than our fullbacks for the last ten years bar Richards have been, never mind cbs. Liverpool may soon have VVD, Arse have Kosidoodah, just off the top of my head.
Utd had Staam & Ferdinand, Arse had Kolo Toure, Sol Campbell etc.
We used to have Dunne & Distain who could give these guys a 3 yard start & beat them oner 15 & once, for a brief wonderful time, we had a fully fit Keith Curle, who could let Gary lineker & Dean Suanders try to beat offside catch them up without breaking sweat, if he got it wrong.
This team, with that kind of defensive pace if we could ally it to football ability, with Jesus Sane Aguero etc up front, would win the Champions league,whilst smoking a pipe each.