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title: "Aston Villa fans can’t believe that Ross McCormack and Usain Bolt played up front together"
canonical: "https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/aston-villa-fans-cant-believe-that-ross-mccormack-and-usain-bolt-played-up-front-together/"
type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "Jack Heale"
section: "Aston Villa"
published: "2018-10-14T07:05:17Z"
modified: "2018-10-14T07:05:17Z"
---

# Aston Villa fans can’t believe that Ross McCormack and Usain Bolt played up front together

**During one of Central Coast Mariners’ pre-season friendlies against Macarthur South West United in New South Wales, former Aston Villa man Ross McCormack and the world-record sprinter Usain Bolt played together and formed an unlikely striking partnership. The former grabbed a goal whilst the latter bagged a brace, the first of which McCormack assisted, to seal a 4-0 victory in his first ever start in professional football. As expected, the Mariners new frontline has sent Twitter into a frenzy with many Villa and football fans confused yet impressed at the same time.**

> Cole and Yorke, Henry and Bergkamp, Shearer and Sutton eat your hearts out: Ross McCormack and Usain Bolt are up front for Central Coast Mariners and they’ve both bagged goals [pic.twitter.com/XuNq0clZUH](https://t.co/XuNq0clZUH)
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> — COPA90 (@COPA90) [October 12, 2018](https://twitter.com/COPA90/status/1050687953394167809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> Ross McCormack and Usain Bolt up top [https://t.co/MTs4aiwLDX](https://t.co/MTs4aiwLDX)
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> — tom x (@tom\_hartley1) [October 12, 2018](https://twitter.com/tom_hartley1/status/1050754762092793857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> Ross McCormack went from having Steve Bruce shouting abuse at him from behind his gate to setting up Usain Bolt in Australia. Miracles do happen. [#avfc](https://twitter.com/hashtag/avfc?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
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> — OurAVFC (@ouravfc) [October 12, 2018](https://twitter.com/ouravfc/status/1050754357388554240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

https://twitter.com/gavinf72/status/1050749183685218304

> We live in a world where Ross McCormack is partnering usain bolt upfront in a professional football match. What a time to be alive
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> — Gavin (@GavinHowarth95) [October 12, 2018](https://twitter.com/GavinHowarth95/status/1050751244485189634?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

Even Leeds United fans were getting in on the act.

> Bolt scored 2, McCormack scored 1
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> — Bakke The Net (@BakkeTheNet) [October 12, 2018](https://twitter.com/BakkeTheNet/status/1050755069250072578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)