Peter Lorimer hit some pile-drivers back in the 60s and 70s but, sadly, none of them have been measured:
THE FASTEST RECORDED SHOT EVER
Sadly - and here lies the difficulty with such a list - the speed of most shots has not been recorded, which means there are probably lots of belters that we can never include. Peter Lorimer, for instance, is regularly cited as having hit shots at over 90mph, and this scorcher from Hereford's Ronnie Radford against Newcastle looks like it could have been even faster, but we can't prove it. However, with a bit of help from our ageing "Ballistic 96" VHS round-up of the 1995-96 season, we can confirm that Tony Yeboah's right-foot rocket jumps straight in at joint fourth (alongside David Trezeguet) on our list after it was measured at 96mph. "But Trezeguet was third," we hear you cry, and you'd be absolutely right; except that we also have a new No1. Step forward Sporting Lisbon's Brazilian left-back Ronny "Homem-Bomba" (human bomb) Heberson, who rifled in this free-kick against Naval in November last year, reportedly from 16.5 metres in 0.28 seconds: by our calculations, that's 131.82mph. Thanks to reader Peter van Balen for the tip-off.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2007/feb/21/theknowledge.sport
There's a video of the 132mph shot by Ronny Heberson on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSzwIBeihXA
This screamer by Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink is allegedly 230kmh, which converts to 143 mph:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPToYrDNcbI