Date: 05.02.09 Location: Carrington Weather conditions: Very cold and windy. Conditions ranged between cloudy, snowing and sunny. Temperature range 0-1C without wind chill. Well below freezing with wind chill. 0-20 mph winds throughout. Pitch conditions: Good, short grass. Players and st ...

The facts speak for themselves: the Mercurial Vapor III took speed to a whole new level. Sleek as a sports car. Equipped with the traction of high performance tyres, for full-throttled changes of direction. Aided by an anatomical heel lock to hold feet moving quicker than ever. Once the Nik ...

Perfection takes time. Nike’s quest for the lightest, fastest boot began more than 10 years ago and reaches a new high this week with the debut of the Mercurial Superfly. The original Mercurial caused the kind of stir a shark makes in a fish pond. And with its standard-bearer R9 stil ...

Wednesday 11 March sees the launch of the world’s lightest boot, the Mercurial Superfly. Weighing in at 185g, the Superfly is the latest evolution of a 12-year boot design obsession that began with the first player to make the name Ronaldo a moniker to be feared. When our designers a ...

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