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From the crisp uncrinkling of the paper, to lifting the boot from the box for the very first time, there's something special about unboxing a new boot. For 100 lucky individuals this unboxing experience will be even more special, as they'll be

A Concorde Moment refers to a point "where great leaps are made in science or engineering and are then never used or retired because they are not business effective". We present the case of the Nike Mercurial Vapor Superfly III, which in 2011 delivered Nike Flywire technology, Nike Sense traction and a price tag of £280.00.

Nike certainly know how to sell and get everyone talking about a new boot. But as the boot community reacts to the launch of the new Mercurial Vapor VIII's, we thought we'd address one of the most important issues - how does the Vapor 8 compare to it's predecessor the Vapor 7...

We've seen the boots on-pitch in action, had a close-up look at them with exclusive photography and even spoken to the team responsible for designing the new Nike Mercurial Vapor VIII football boots. But now it's time to put them through the new style SoccerBible Play Test and see how they perform...

It used to be that every football boot was fitted with a conical sole-plate, but time, design and engineering has changed this, most radically this can be seen in the Speed market. Whilst every brand strives for greater acceleration and traction, how their respective designers go about delivering this performance is quite remarkably different...

Twelve months ago we pondered what 2011 would hold for the competitive speed ranges - Nike Mercurial and adidas F50? As 2011 draws to a close, we look back on the year it's been for the F50 and Mercurial ranges, and look forward to 2012...

Through the wonders of Twitter, former Liverpool striker Ryan Babel has given the social universe an ahead-of-schedule look at the eye-popping Purple/Silver Mercurial colourway, while becoming the envy of many football fans!

Being the lucky folks that we are here at SoccerBible, we've landed two of the worlds hottest boots signed by the worlds two best football players - Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo! No mean feat if we say so ourselves!

Hundreds of you asked your questions on Facebook in the build up to CR7 Live and now you can watch Nike Mercurial designer, Andy Cain and special guest, Cristiano Ronaldo, talk about the new CR7 Mercurial football boots!

Madrid recently played host to the official launch of the new Nike CR7 Collection. Cristiano Ronaldo, Nike's poster boy for a generation, gave a much-anticipated appearance to launch his new CR7 line, headlined by his third signature Nike soccer shoe – the Blue/Red/Obsidian Nike CR7 Mercurial Superfly III.