Felipe Melo Starts The Year Off Right: Studs To Face

There's little doubt the dirtiest play of the year in 2010 was Nigel De Jong's ode to Carl Douglas in the World Cup final - Dirty Tackle seems to agree, and by golly if they aren't the authority on the subject.

Felipe Melo got to setting the bar supremely high for 2011, leaping out well ahead of the pack with some studs to the face of Parma's Massimo Paci all of 15 minutes after the Serie A campaign had rebooted.