Your first pair of boots

[MoorgateRoyal]

What was your first ever pair of boots?

I remember having a pair of black Hi-Tec which were terrible in hindsight. Since then, I have cycled through Nike, adidas and Puma with little dips into the likes of Mizuno.

[John Smith]

Great topic.

I saved up a fiver to buy some Cotton Oxford mouldeds off a lad I knew and proceeded to churn up my back garden.

Best to go on proDirect and get some top of the range Lottos or Jomas when they get discounted as they're class but well priced

[Hoop Blah]

My very first pair of football boots were, I'm pretty sure, Savacentre's very own.

First range of boots that I specifically remember going for as a kid were these though



http://uk.complex.com/sneakers/2014/07/let-throwback-nike-ads-carry-world-cup-semis

Had a few pairs of really comfortable Mizuno's in the mid-90s before sticking with Copa Munds and World Cups ever since.

[Sanguine]

Gola. They looked something like this.

[No Fixed Abode]

Favourites ever

[MoorgateRoyal]

Favourites ever

I can't find those Valsports anywhere anymore.

[No Fixed Abode]

I got mine from SoccerScene in Carnaby Street years ago - not sure if they even make them any more.

[John Smith]

I got mine from SoccerScene in Carnaby Street years ago - not sure if they even make them any more.

Wasn't Michael Thomas the face of Valsport? I remember he was one of the first to wear yellow boots that matched the Liverpool away kit circa '97

[genome]

Red Adidas Predators.

[stealthpapes]

Something with four stripes.

[Pepe the Horseman]

First pair were Puma Kings. Fav pair were Copa Mondials.

[No Fixed Abode]

I got mine from SoccerScene in Carnaby Street years ago - not sure if they even make them any more.

Wasn't Michael Thomas the face of Valsport? I remember he was one of the first to wear yellow boots that matched the Liverpool away kit circa '97

First player I ever saw wear them was Daniele Massaro. I don't remember Michael Thomas wearing them.

[AthleticoSpizz]

First pair....my brothers hand-me-downs....plain black leather virtual hob-nails

Second...Steve Heighway endorsed dark red plastic ones

[tmesis]

First pair....my brothers hand-me-downs....plain black leather virtual hob-nails

Similar here. A cheap pair that used to belong to my brother, and had been sitting at the back of a wardrobe for four years until I grew into them. They'd been almost squashed flat from having stuff placed on top of them all that time, and the leather has become about as supple as wrought iron.

Never owned a good pair, but this was the early 80s, and few people really cared. Football boots were a functional item, always black, not a fashion statement.

[AthleticoSpizz]

spot-on tmesis..an identical scenario

Although I actually inherited mine early 1970's.....it sounds like those same boots re-surfaced in your household 10 years later

[RFCMod]

A pair of black 'Line 7' boots with purple and green pop colour around 1986/87

[No Fixed Abode]

Nobody has come forward with Quasers yet.......

[Mr Optimist]

First boots were some 70s Woolworths "Winfield" boots. Then as I was playing regularly my first reasonably decent boots would've been the cheapest kids Adidas boots, " Mendoza". My dream boots at the time would've been the Copa Mundials with the red studs and white and red soles.

[6ft Kerplunk]

A succession of no-brand 2 or 4 stripe boots when properly young. A few pairs of ok Mitre boots around the time they decided that you needed 7 studs not 6. Then thanks to our U15 manager owning the local sports shop a pair of fairly decent Adidas boots which I thought were Adidas Littbarski but a quick google suggests not. They had a sole a bit like Adidas World Cups but without the red horizontal stripe bit. Any ideas?

[No Fixed Abode]

A succession of no-brand 2 or 4 stripe boots when properly young. A few pairs of ok Mitre boots around the time they decided that you needed 7 studs not 6. Then thanks to our U15 manager owning the local sports shop a pair of fairly decent Adidas boots which I thought were Adidas Littbarski but a quick google suggests not. They had a sole a bit like Adidas World Cups but without the red horizontal stripe bit. Any ideas?

i DUNNO. There were plenty of similar Adidas boots around at that time. Like the Kaisers.

He're something a bit retro for this thread.