The second was a toe-poke which fell fortuitously to Mellberg inside the penalty area.
Even in a simple court dance, he's emphatic about the precise musical beat on which the foot has to be placed flat on the ground, the accent of a plié, the height at which a pointed toe should be lifted, the twist or curve of a torso.
But the detentions come amid a deepening crackdown against media outlets that do not toe the government line.
Now Manchester seems a city standing toe to toe with the energy of Hamburg or Barcelona as much as it does the energy of any other English city.
Try that metropolitan sneer on mothers who are themselves often wearing pink, alongside small daughters pink-clad from top to toe on pink scooters.
Only those with no taste, no imagination and too much money wear head-to-toe catwalk clobber.
The 8th toe is a sickeningly big digit, donated by an American who lost it in a lawnmower accident.
Tourists now visit Dawson City specifically to go toe-to-toe with this challenging libation, much as Captain Dick anticipated.
He looks to be through on goal, but has the ball taken off his toe by a block from Halliche, who is so stricken with cramp he can't even kick it away.
It should be a battle of the Princesses as we see Cannes juror Nicole Kidman in Grace of Monaco go toe-to-toe with Naomi Watts in a film now, finally and officially, named Diana.
Barring all-out nuclear war or a catastrophic meteor collision, a substantial minority of you will get a toe in the door of the next century – a very wrinkled, arthritic toe, but the same toe you're wearing now.
