29 Mar 2016 21:21:36
Watching the England game with my lad (16) I mocked sick note sturridge's gold lame' boots only to be told by my lad that they were quite cool.
My response that real men wear black boots was met with derision and laughter.
So, just for fun, what's the preference, traditional black footy boots or these multi coloured new fangled boots?
ps my lad also believed me when I told him Royston Vasey was an Ajax player in the 70's.
{Ed002's Note - A while back Charlton banned all of the non first team squad from wearing anything but black boots.}
29 Mar 2016 21:49:13
I could imagine brian clough only allowing all black and me too bit girly for me.
29 Mar 2016 21:50:13
Sorry forgot to mention and gloves.
29 Mar 2016 21:55:11
Alan Ball started wearing white boots and his form plummeted.
29 Mar 2016 22:07:53
Boots should only come in black. Some players are worse than women.
29 Mar 2016 22:17:58
dont watch england they bore me rigid but I have to say its bad enough that the joke that is henderson is deemed good enough to get england caps but even worse milner is deemed good enough to captain his country. the world really has gone mad.
{Ed033's Note - yes, but the pièce de résistance/cherry on the top would be to have Roberto Martinez as the next England manager.
29 Mar 2016 22:31:09
It's not the boots, it's what's in them that counts.
{Ed033's Note - touché, thecadet
30 Mar 2016 00:46:23
Adidas copa modial Umbro speciali and Puma kings. The best boots out there for the last 40 years. All made in black. All the greats used these.
30 Mar 2016 02:36:48
For me. black puma kings with the fold over tounge.I preferred quazer boots tho.they were black though lol.
{Ed025's Note - i had a pair of george best lace up at the side purple boots in my youth dentie..
30 Mar 2016 10:45:14
I had black adidas fx100's because Trevor Steven and Kevin Sherry wore them. didn't make me play like them though.
I see Ed025 had a pair of George Best boots, nowadays all I can afford is boots from george.
{Ed025's Note - times are hard RIB, but not as hard as when i was young when my shin pads were a rolled up echo mate.. :)
30 Mar 2016 18:05:14
As long as they are predominantly black, a bit of colour isn't too bad but some of these new boots are shocking. When I played, if you wore flash coloured boots then you were a target for a bit of a kicking!
My favourite boots when I was a kid were the asics vialli st, fell apart after a season though despite being looked after. I was devastated. Puma King and adidas predator were decent boots too.
30 Mar 2016 19:19:38
Puma king all the way. I know what your talking about with the coloured boot kid getting an extra bit of kicking spudv. No harm as far as I'm concerned. It's football not a fashion cat walk.
You'd swear some were trying to do a bit of modelling with the boots they wear nowadays.
{Ed025's Note - i done some work for ryan babel a couple of years ago NBTB and he had a box of boots in the garage, i could not believe how flimsy and soft they were mate..its no wonder players get so many injuries..
30 Mar 2016 21:34:10
Ha, Ryan Babel is that the usual red signing. Buy a player, keep him for a couple of years and then sell him for half of what he cost. Saying that City paid big money for a certain red last year.
How many games has he played this year? Must of got a few boots out of Ryan Babels box in the garage. Eh Ed025 😂.
{Ed025's Note - nah mate, far too big for me.. :)