Nike Tiempo Legend 10 Club Mg Soar White

First: match day as intended, blue and white boot with a dark kit so the Soar blue tracks your feet across the pitch, worn with a proper football sock and shin guard so the collar sits correctly. Second: five a side and turf sessions, where the multi ground outsole is doing the job it was built for and the synthetic upper handles damp better than leather would. Size close, since a boot that slides costs you touch. Do not wear MG studs on hard concrete or indoor courts, which will shred them. After play, knock the mud off while it is wet, wipe the upper, stuff the boot with paper and let it dry slowly away from heat.

Football is where Nike's advertising instincts translated most easily outside America. Ronaldinho appeared in Nike football advertising, including the 2005 Touch of Gold film, which spread through early internet video in a way no television buy could have achieved and set the template for how boot campaigns are made. The brand's wider voice came from Wieden and Kennedy, its agency partner since 1976, the same partnership that produced Just Do It in 1988. Nike's Indian football and cricket history has been more complicated, and it should be said plainly that Nike no longer sponsors the Indian cricket team, whatever the boots in the shop suggest.

MG stands for multi ground, which is the outsole decision that defines this boot. The stud pattern is configured to work across firm natural grass and artificial surfaces rather than being optimised for one, and that compromise is the right one for anyone whose weekly game changes venue. The Club tier uses a synthetic upper rather than the premium leathers of the top Tiempo models, which means less moulding to the foot over time but far better behaviour in wet conditions and a much shorter break in. Soar White puts the blue across the upper with white relief on the sole unit and Swoosh. Boots at this tier want to be dried at room temperature, never on a radiator, since heat warps a moulded soleplate.