Posted by Stuart Grimshaw | Posted in boots | Posted on 25-07-2009
After 8 years, almost 400 games, over 400 hours on the pitch, my faithful boots have quit on me, the stitching on the heal has gone, the inner front part of each boot has worn smooth and there’s no easy way to say this … they stink. This is the story of my hunt for a new pair of astroturf boots.
My current boots are made by Adidas, who knows what model they are though, that wore off years ago, but they are (were) half red and half black, and I’m looking for something similar, definitely nothing in pink or orange or stitched together from leftover bits left around the factory.
My search for boots starts with Nike Tiempo Legend III iD boot. Fully customisable colours, so you can create boots in the most garish patterns most likely to earn you a swift kick from the oppositions center half. After 5 minutes of that nonsense I set about and created my perfect colourway for a football boot. £117.40 gets you a “boot of wonder” made of “premium kangaroo leather”, you get a molded sockliner with with Poron cusioning, whatever that means.
The kangaroos can rest easy however, I’m looking for something a little further down the price chain and next time, I’ll be taking a look at the other end of the market and see what the cheapest boots have to offer.
