Usain Bolt Reveals Which Legend Made Him Start Supporting Manchester United

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Jamaica’s sporting icon and fastest man in history supports Manchester United, but nobody had known why it was that he followed the Red Devils, 90min reports.

Bolt, who won the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay golds at the Rio Olympics in the summer, puts it all down to one of Manchester United’s own icons and prolific goalscorer of the 2000s.

“Van Nistelrooy played for them,” the Jamaican revealed to Yahoo! Sports.

“I was like, ‘I like this guy. He’s cool. He’s very good.’ And I just started supporting him.”

The sprinter owns the world record 100m time of 9.58 seconds, and Ruud Van Nistelrooy also held a record – scoring in the highest number of consecutive Premier League games in its history with 10 – until Leicester’s Jamie Vardy broke it in the 2015/2016 season.

Van Nistelrooy banged in a total of 150 goals for Manchester United in 219 games between 2001 and 2006. He played for PSV Eindhoven before joining the Red Devils, and moved on to the bright lights of Real Madrid upon leaving them.

Bolt has previously been presented with his very own United shirt, with the number 963 on the back surely given as appreciation of his 9.63 second time set in the London 2012 Olympics 100m final.

It seems that Van Nistelrooy was the only reason whatsoever for Bolt to align with the red half of Manchester.

“The funny part about it is that it could’ve been any team,” Bolt admitted.

“It could have been Sunderland. It could have been Newcastle.”

Bolt is undoubtedly one of the greatest sporting legends of all time, but this evidence draws a rather shocking conclusion.