Indeed, it's the support at the ball of the foot that gave my pair their distinct feel.
Lance Allred remembers pre-season tryouts for the Stampede, when bad shoes literally ripped the skin off the ball of his foot.
Ja added the third in the 53rd minute with a touch of individual brilliance, twisting past two defenders and hitting the ball home on the outside of his foot from an acute angle.
But it was the briefest of honeymoons for Cook, lasting only until the last ball of the eighth over, when he played a half-hearted force off the back foot to a ball well wide of off-stump - and to the delight of the bowler Hilfenhaus, Michael Hussey dived expertly in the gully to take a fine one-handed catch.
Saints went two ahead when sub Maybury's shot from the left was deflected into the path of May and he showed great skill to knock the spinning ball over Cerny with a flick of his right foot.
Fabio Aurelio's cross from the right curled to the far post for Jamie Carragher to head back across goal, where Ngog guided the ball with the outside of his right foot in off the keeper and the far post.
By inches, the ball off the hands of the 6-foot-1 Garland cleared the outstretched hands of Reginald Buckner, the Rebels' muscular 6-9 center.
Moroccan striker Chamakh held his position to coolly side-foot the ball through the legs of Terrell Forbes from eight yards out, right into the corner of the net, for his first goal since the end of November.
It was chiefly thanks to the brilliance of Iniesta once more as he clipped an outrageous diagonal pass into the path of Alves, who took a superb touch to take it round Pyatov and with the outside of his right foot flick the ball into the net.
St Johnstone were more enterprising at the start of the second half and Samuel should have scored when he latched on to Cleveland Taylor's cross but the striker elected to stretch out a foot instead of heading the ball and the effort was collected comfortably by keeper Brown.
Messi stepped up to take the free kick but though the ball beat the wall it flashed a foot wide of the post.
Morais worked the ball on to his left foot on the edge of the United box on the hour mark and sent his shot swerving over the bar.
He checked onto his right foot and curled the ball onto the top of the net.
He jumped in front of the 385-foot marker and caught the ball above the fence.
The South African produced a neat piece of control with his left foot before lashing the ball past a helpless Tomas Lovasik with his right.
They were on the front foot and maybe we played a bit of ball in the first few minutes which allowed them to run at us.
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One of the most important points to remember about this particular shot is getting your front foot as close to the pitch of the ball as possible.
However the clearance ran invitingly to Elliott, who superbly wrapped his foot around the ball and found the top corner of the net beyond the despairing dive of Paddy Kenny.
Plus, rather than kicking the ball with your foot, where you at least have some level of sensitivity, you strike it with the bony part of your heel.
The contact shook the ball loose and it appeared to hit Williams' foot before rolling out of bounds.
The one thing Kentucky could do was dump the ball to Anthony Davis, the 6-foot-10 national player of the year.
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He won titles aplenty at Manchester United and one at Real Madrid, and the Galaxy will be looking for him and his famous ball-bending right foot to lead them to a trophy cabinet full of silverware in those five years.
Instead of driving to the ballpark, they tie a ball and chain to each foot and walk to work, because they're scrappy like that.
Florent Malouda chipped a ball into the run of Anelka and the French striker angled in a left-foot shot which keeper Martin Dubravaka failed to get a hand to despite it being within saveable range.
The Sporting defender quickly worked the ball on to this right foot and unleashed an unstoppable curling shot into the roof of the net.
Derby missed a couple of opportunities to clear and Vassell crashed the ball home from six yards after Neil Danns' powerful strike rebounded off the foot of the post.
The Gunners were rocked when Matthieu Flamini hesitated on the edge of the box, the ball found its way to Taylor and his side-foot shot arrowed into the corner via Gallas's ankle.
City centre-back Kolo Toure left Morten Gamst Pedersen's hopeful punt upfield to Hart but the keeper -- having come 30-yards out of his goal -- missed the ball and Kalinic steered in a left-foot shot.
The 6-foot junior guard went diving past photographers in pursuit of a loose ball less than 2 minutes in and crashed hard into the basket support when he was fouled on a fast-break dunk attempt.
Midfielder Lorik Cana picked up the ball following a Bolton clearance before sending over a high looping ball to the back post where Campbell had found plenty of space for a side-foot volley past Jussi Jaaskelainen.
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