Everyone was trying to kick the ball, there were boots flying everywhere and I just dived in and grabbed the ball.
David Cameron jumped into the ever-sensitive politics of the Middle East with both boots flying today, determined to call a spade a bloody shovel and Gaza a "prison camp" that shamed all those, principally Israel, responsible for its enduring misery.
Kearney got another, set up by Zebo, whose boots flew with the speed he once showed as a schoolboy sprinter.
He has pace to burn, energy for two men, and courage to put his head in where the boots fly — as he did in scoring United's winning goal against Liverpool on Sunday.
Robshaw, however, spends a great deal of his time running into people, or at least other rugby players, putting his body where boots fly, elbows protrude and bones crunch.
The game was rough enough to make Wilf Copping raise an eyebrow, punches were thrown frequently and boots were flying faster and more wildly than hooves in a cavalry charge.
In one particularly bizarre photographic series, Cool Kid, toddlers were dressed up in the 1980s uniform of Dr Martens boots, MA1 flying jackets, spiky hair and shades - a bastardisation of an innovative series of pictures in the Face, styled by Petri, of young model Felix.
Not only was he brave to put his head where boots were flying, but he did so at some considerable cost to himself.
The shot clipped Gerard Piqué's boot and flew in at the near post beyond David de Gea who, falling backwards, had tried to stop it with his foot.
The ball leaves his hand 28 metres out, hits his boot and flies over the heads of all in front of him and the Waratahs' score goes up by three points.
On Monday, the Croatian teenager Mario Ancic could not continue because of leg cramps, the Italian veteran Andrea Gaudenzi stopped because of a headache, the Hungarian Attila Savolt injured his elbow, and Richard Krajicek, who came back from elbow surgery only in July, left Flushing Meadows with his left foot in a protective boot and flew home to the Netherlands for treatment.
