Business As Usual

When all eyes are on you, what do you do? If you're Cristiano Ronaldo, you do what you've always done. Just 27 minutes into his European debut, he fired in a trademark free kick. Then added another in the second half. Same again next time?

Reset the scoreboards: The Spanish Le ...

What has happened so far is past tense. We must forget about past titles, classification rankings or losses. All scoreboards are reset. The 09/10 season was a milestone, but the League is the League again, a place, where the world’s best players compete to achieve victories. Cristiano Rona ...

My Expectations are Greater than Yours

With Manchester conquered, it’s on to Madrid. Now the world’s most expensive player has been unveiled before an 80,000-strong crowd, it’s on to business. For every single screaming fan in the Bernabeu, that means just one thing - snatching the title from Barcelona. Th ...

The Superfly: a hat-trick of innovati ...

Look out defenders, Mercurial Superfly is coming. And it’s fast. The fastest boot in football is built on three key innovations. Flywire technology provides the greatest stability from the lightest materials. Ultra-efficient dual density studs, give total traction at defence-beating s ...

The History of Speed - Mercurial Vapo ...

If the first two incarnations of the Mercurial were all about R9, the Mercurial Vapor II was the boot that announced CR7’s arrival at the highest level. While the original ‘Phenomenon’ was routinely slotting home 20-odd goals a season in La Liga, his Portuguese namesake was ...