Former Chelsea striker Nicolas Anelka may be seeing out his days in the Chinese Super League, but that hasn't kept him out of the eye's of our SoccerBible bootspotting scouts! The Frenchman, who is currently playing for Shanghai Shenhua, caught our attention as he turned out to a Shenhua training session wearing a familiar looking pair of miadidas f50 miCoach football boots.

Chelsea's Nicolas Anelka has been breaking them in during training for the last couple of weeks, but yesterday's match at White Hart Lane was the first competitive debut for the upcoming Puma Powercat 1.10 Tricks colour way... Anelka has been

Chelsea striker Nicolas Anelka will miss the first leg of the club's UEFA Champions League quarter-final against Liverpool. The French international picked up a toe injury during Sunday's 1-0 defeat to Tottenham that will require three weeks on

Lionel Messi wearing Nike Tiempo Legend, Ashley Cole wearing adidas F50 and Rivaldo wearing Puma. Over the years there's been some shock moves as players have switched brand allegiance, so on the dawning on the new football season we thought we'd look back at the top ten most memorable boot transfers...

SoccerBible sat down for a one-on-one interview with Chelsea and England left back Ashley Cole at the launch of the new Nike Seitiro ball at London's iconic Niketown store. Ashley shared his thoughts on the revolutionary new official Premier League ball, his Tiempo Legend boots, and who is the best woman he knows...

Back in August 2000, Nike started a partnership with the English Premier League to be the official football supplier to the division. Now, a decade later, to accompany the release of the new T90 Tracer Premier League football, here at the SoccerBible we share a nostalgic look back over the 10 years the swoosh has been involved in the Premier League ball...

Puma v1.08 football boots are the choice of Premiership top goalscorer Nicolas Anelka and Primera Division top goalscorer Samuel Eto'o. A successful football boot that delivers on performance, the v1.08 has received three bold NEW re-designs for winter 2008.

There was more great pre-season action this weekend, with a host of new football boots on show and players including Joe Cole and Raul making their debuts. We also had players making surprising boot changes such as Nicolas Anelka and Florent Malouda...

There was a lot of passion shown this weekend, but who were the players able to channel their energy through their feet, and put in a good performance on the pitch to win their head-to-head battles... Nani (Man Utd) v Barry (Man City) Winner: GARETH BARRY

Was Nicolas Anelka forced into wearing the pink Puma v1.08 football boots?! If he was it certainly worked as he scored on their worldwide debut!