#3 Shortest Premier League career: Joe Sheerin (60 seconds)
To go a whole Premier League season having played fewer than ten games would be miserable and embarrassing for most top flight talents, putting into perspective the absurdity of this statistic.
Born in Hammersmith, London, it was with Chelsea that forward Joe Sheerin would start his professional playing career and, coincidentally, set the record of the shortest Premier League career. Sheerin turned professional with the Blues in 1996 and it was in April 1997 that Chelsea would lock horns with AFC Wimbledon, a club Sheerin would play for later in his career.
With just minutes to go in the game against the Dons, Italian Gianfranco Zola was brought off, with Sheerin the substitute to go on and make his debut – a debut which would last just sixty seconds. Despite remaining with the Blues until 2000, that would be Sheerin’s last appearance for the club, rendering his Premier League tenure the shortest of all time.
