Buying football boots

cafcdave123 said:

Ketman said:

Adidas copa mondials best by far.

I favoured the world cups personally but he could do a lot worse than the copa’s

Both - World Cups for studs, cops mundial for moulds. Interchange depending on pitch.

my copas fell apart after one season of sunday league! My puma king astros have been going strong on astro playing once a week 5 a side though since 2018, possibly even earlier as got them off my dad!

shine166 said:

SporadicAddick said:

shine166 said:

The boy is 5 and starting to play football more at school, also has just signed up for the after school club. Its outside on the grass but I presume he cant wear studs, is there anything with more grip that a normal trainer (incase its wet) but not a proper boot ? been years since I did anything footy wise so im absolutely clueless. He also likes being in goal, why is it so hard to get a kit for 5 year old ? 

football boots for a 5 year old

Thats great lol, but they need grip. Was playing outside in the rain lastnight and he slipped over 3 times. His confidence isnt great so him wanting to play football with the other kids is huge. Hes quite small physically compared to everyone else so Im trying to encourage with anything he wants to try.

I feel a contract at Charlton is on the horizon.

Raith_C_Chattonell said:

Forget all the advice above. 

What you need is protection of the ankles and a good hard toe cap to prevent stamping injuries.  These particular boots need a large dollop of dubbin.  Apply liberally with a stiff brush and finish off with a soft cloth and plenty of elbow grease.

Sorted.

To be fair the advice about dubbin is sound. I had it knocked into me as a young aspiring shit footballer and rugby player the importance of keeping my boots clean. Had the piss taken out of me for years as I'd watch my mates take out expensive boots caked in last weeks dried mud, absolutely stinking and falling apart. 

The routine was to wash them on a Saturday (rugby) and Sunday for football, leave them in the garage with newspaper in them and they would always be dry by Monday evening when I'd smear and work in dubbin stuffing more newspaper into them. Some pikey scumbag stole my Rugby boots after a game at new ash Green and I always made it my aim to draw blood when we played them ever since, never did find out who chored them

These Pantafola were the last pair of boots I wore.
 Black, stylish, blissfully comfortable and my favourite boots ever.
Like Carter above, my boots were always scrupulously clean.

Last summer I was asked to play in a vets charity match. I gave up playing at 36 and was 56 at the time of this game. I dug out my old boots, proper black leather old school boots. All the others seemed to be wearing multi-coloured slippers, so I seemed to get a lot of stares as I laced up my old faithfulls and anyone would think I was wearing Billy's boots (comic reference, for you youngsters).