When Sport-locker.net reviewed the Nike Mercurial Vapor SuperFly III in the summer of 2011, we were huge fans.

However, we did note that the upper was somewhat stiff.

So we were chuffed to stumble across the above video on YouTube that shows how Real Madrid and Portugal superstar Cristiano Ronaldo makes the upper of his CR7 IIIs suppler before matches!

Would you try this before a game? Do you have any pre-match superstitions? Let us know on our Twitter and Facebook pages.