Pink Nike Books Heading To The English Premier League

The latest ploy in football has been unveiled by Nike…the Pink Nike Mercurial Rosa Boots. As our video shows stars including Cesc Fabregas, Gabby Agbonlahor and Theo Walcott in the latest Nike video viral. Djibril Cisse has trotted out in lemon coloured adidas F50.8 Tunit Pros for Sunderland this season while Wigan’s Amr Zaki has matched club colours with his white pair of Nike Mercurial Vapor IVs sporting a blue logo.

Ex-Everton player Alan Ball was the first player to make a style statement with his feet.

The Everton and England star wore white Hummel boots in the 1970-71 season and so began a fashion war that has spread over four decades. Ball later complained that his Hummels felt like cardboard and he even got the club’s apprentices to paint his black adidas boots white until he was rumbled by an unhappy sponsor.

It was a far cry from the white Nike boots that Ronaldinho showed off at Barcelona. The Brazilian star genuinely had a golden touch with two specially commissioned pairs of Nike boots that contained eight ounces of 24-carat gold. The Nike logo also had a layer of 24-carat gold, there was a gold No 10 and letter R and finally the heel of the boot included five gold stars in recognition of Brazil’s five world cup wins.

So who is going to be brave enough to put in a shocking pink performance from this week?

Step forward Arsenal’s Nicklas Bendtner, Marco Materazzi of Internazionale and Bayern Munich’s Franck Ribery.

Good luck fellas.

Actress Cherie Lunghi has become the ninth star to leave the BBC’s celebrity talent contest Strictly Come Dancing - despite backing from the show’s judges.

Her “breakthrough” performance had been praised by judges, but viewers opted to support broadcaster John Sergeant, who received faint praise from the panel.

Lunghi and dance partner James Jordan had to perform against Lisa Snowdon and Brendan Cole to stay on the show.

Head judge Len Goodman said having to choosing between them was “terrible”.

“I feel as though I’m kicking someone off the show because neither should be going, but I have to base it on that last performance, and for me the couple that edged it were Lisa and Brendan,” he said after casting the deciding vote.

The two couples had joined Sergeant and partner Kristina Rihanoff at the bottom of the score table following Saturday night’s performances.

But while Sergeant and Rihanoff received the lowest marks from the judges, the strength of viewers’ votes were enough to see them avoid the dance-off.

Lunghi’s partner Jordan begged viewers to change the way they voted.

“This is supposed to be a dance contest,” Jordan said.

“Please, please, people at home vote for the dancing. I think Cherie had a lot more to show.”

But Lunghi showed no signs of bitterness at the manner of her departure from the show.

“It has been great, such a wonderful experience and great fun,” she said.

“It’s been a huge learning curve and I wouldn’t have missed it for the world.”