The Premier League was on fold this weekend as the oldest federation cup competition in the world took centre stage. The FA Cup always produces some magical football as well as some great boot spots. Check out the best from this weekend’s 4th Round.
Easily the biggest game of the 4th Round was Manchester United’s trip to Anfield. United’s stand out performer over the past few weeks has been Michael Carrick (behind Welbeck), who gave the new Black/White/Lime Puma PowerCat 1.12 colourway their English debut.
Steven Pienaar gave us a glimpse of Puma’s new Dresden Blue/White/Lime V1.11 colourway last weekend against City when he gave them a short debut after coming off the bench. He came off the bench once again this weekend to help his side overcome Watford.
Stoke City forward Jon Walters has been through a variety of boots this season. Walters looked to have pledging his allegiance to Puma after wearing the PowerCat 1.12 but switched to Adidas AdiPower Predator recently. This weekend Walters was in Nike’s Stoke Kit complimenting White/Red Tiempo Legend IV boots.
We have been waiting for Adidas’ new AdiPure 11Pro to really arrive in the English football. Gareth Barry has worn the Black/White/Slime colourway a few times but we got our first glimpse of the White/Black/Energy colourway this weekend thanks to Bolton’s Mark Davies.
Another boot we have been looking forward to seeing is the Umbro Speciali 3. One of Umbro’s main men, Chelsea’s John Terry, is still wearing Speciali R boots but QPR’s Tommy Smith gave the new Speciali 3 its debut against the London club.
While on the subject of debuts, Darren Bent gave his brand new limited edition bespoke Yellow/Purple Umbro Speciali R boots a scoring debut against Arsenal on Sunday night. Having asked Umbro for a brighter pair of boots he was handing this Yellow/Purple colourway which unfortunately will not be available to the public.
We love bespoke boots here at Futbol Blog ET and we certainly appreciate Jermiane Beckford’s work. The Leicester City forward has matched a pair of custom Blue/Black Adidas AdiZero boots perfectly to his Leicester kit.
A boot that has popped up often, despite having no official on field support, is Adidas’ Leather White/White/Warning AdiZero which has been worn by a few Premier League players and this weekend by Crawley Town’s Tyrone Barnett (left).
Adidas often release boots that will have no official on field support yet they always find their way onto pitches. We aren’t surprised the AdiPure IV SL, worn this weekend by Beckford’s Leicester teammate Lloyd Dyer, has been spotted a few times. We wonder how long it will be before we see the AdiPure 11Pro SL on pitches.
Arguably the boot spot of the weekend was Chelsea forward Daniel Sturridge. Sturridge has been in Nike T90 Laser IV boots for most of the season but surprised us all on Saturday when he walked out against QPR wearing Adidas’ High Energy/White/Electricity AdiZero MiCoach boots.
Elsewhere in the world Cristiano Ronaldo surprised everyone by switching out of his CR7 Nike Superfly III boots and donning their White/Blue/Volt colourway which was released as an alternate colourway to the popular Purple/Silver Superfly III colourway. It’s not a surprise that Ronnie has taken a liking to this White colourway as the real Madrid man was one of the first to wear the popular Windchill Superfly II colourway. As was the case with his CR7 colourway we believe that these are actually the upcoming Mercurial Vapor VIII boots disguised as Superfly IIIs.
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