History of the football boot

[4everredandwhite]

I started with Adidas, then Alan Ball white boots followed by George Best with the side lacing. All decent boots but with my feet the most comfortable were Patrick

 

[stephen cartwright]

I started with Adidas, then Alan Ball white boots followed by George Best with the side lacing. All decent boots but with my feet the most comfortable were Patrick

Any action pics?

 

[4everredandwhite]

Any action pics?

You must be joking, my mother warned me about people like you

 

[stephen cartwright]

You must be joking, my mother warned me about people like you

 

[4everredandwhite]

 

[What A Waster]

Two best ever boots.....Adidas world cup and Puma King.

This

 

[samaistonsrightfoot]

Puma King, Adidas World cups and 2002 predators

 

[4everredandwhite]

Puma King, Adidas World cups and 2002 predators

Weren’t the predators designed by Craig Johnston when he played for Liverpool?

 

[Dennis]

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My 2 favourites

 

[WhoDrankAllTheBovril]

I can't remember the make of the first pair of boots I had (perhaps Adidas), but I remember them having far too many studs on them. When we played on a muddy pitch, which was just about every game, the boots would feel like lead weights because they soon accumulated a massive clod of earth attached to the bottom. They were torture to clean after the match as well.

 

[Kid Galahad]

Patrick Keegan Top you philistine.

Did they have orange stripes? I had Patrick Keegan summat or other, orange stripes and made from kangaroo skin iirc, also had Patrick Chile, plain sort of brown/black, very mean...

 

[Deleted member 29601]

Did they have orange stripes? I had Patrick Keegan summat or other, orange stripes and made from kangaroo skin iirc, also had Patrick Chile, plain sort of brown/black, very mean...

Mine had green soles

 

[Thurston]

Anyone remember when New Balance brought out a boot only Bryan Robson (Man Utd and wba vintage) was allowed to wear?

Good marketing that

To be fair, Mizuno did a similar thing in 2002 when they made a custom boot for Rivaldo.

That was the only time I ever wanted to have Mizuno boots.

 

[samaistonsrightfoot]

Weren’t the predators designed by Craig Johnston when he played for Liverpool?

Think the original pair were, or at least a the tyre type grooves on them, were designed by a player. Can't remember who though so may well have been him.

 

[stephen cartwright]

Do current players still dubbin there boots?

 

[Deleted member 29601]

Do current players still dubbin there boots?

Are boots still made out of leather? Never picked a pair up for donkeys years.

 

[Anthly]

I started with Adidas, then Alan Ball white boots followed by George Best with the side lacing. All decent boots but with my feet the most comfortable were Patrick

I had a pair of moulded plastic studs boots as Thornhill had an all weather type pitch, that was rock solid. We played inter house games on it. The grass pitch was for school team games v the likes of bede , st Aidan’s, monkey house etc

In the mid 70’s I remember my Gola league footy boots at Broadway Juniors. Some of the older kids had Pumas with a big tongue and aluminium screw in studs, I was so envious. My brother had a pair of Stuburts ,does anybody remember them? Great days...

 

[Fetch Fletch]

Does it include those mental ones which had a spinning set of studs underneath?? Hummel tough spin or something like that - guaranteed to snap your ankle off

Not boots but I saw that Hi-Tec silver Shadows had made a comeback...£60+

 

[stephen cartwright]

In the mid 70’s I remember my Gola league footy boots at Broadway Juniors. Some of the older kids had Pumas with a big tongue and aluminium screw in studs, I was so envious. My brother had a pair of Stuburts ,does anybody remember them? Great days...

Loved to clean my boots, unscrewing every stud, then replacing them. No idea if players today are that conscientious with their boots.

 

[Scorer]

Think the original pair were, or at least a the tyre type grooves on them, were designed by a player. Can't remember who though so may well have been him.

Think it was Craig Johnstone but don't know why I think that!

Weren’t the predators designed by Craig Johnston when he played for Liverpool?

Beat me to the Craig Johnstone info!