By Chris Wright
Granted, this one’s for borderline-hardcore football boot aficionados, but to those who may be interested, those dirty flirts over at Adidas have titillated our imagination – emerging from the undergrowth, tugging on our sleeve and whispering in our ear that the gaudy boots that Lionel Messi wore against Nigeria on Monday were in fact ‘intelligent’ and that they contained a ‘super-secret micro chip’ before disappearing again into the night…
We can’t tell you any more at this stage due to embargo reasons (all in good time), but our money’s on the chip being some kind of Jedi force field – as it would go someway to explaining this kind of thing…