Fancy boots

[kingdannyb]

Sunday's team sported a bizarre array of luminous yellow, turquoise, blue and white boots and looked daft.

I say make them all play in traditional black boots for a more professional appearance.

That's why we got humped.

 

Nonsense, or am I onto something here ?

[redm]

 

I think it has a lot more to do with the feet inside those boots and the head attached to them rather than anything else. The colour of our players boots has to be the least of our worries.

[Fraggle]

 

I think it has a lot more to do with the feet inside those boots and the head attached to them rather than anything else. The colour of our players boots has to be the least of our worries.

 

Not so, alot of managers ban players from wearing coloured boots or make them earn it with good performances. I can't remember if it was Roy Keane that banned his players from wearing the coloured boots because he felt they thought they were better than what they were. The boots are all part of the attitude, if the attitude isn't right then I agree with the OP. Make them earn the right like everything else.

 

Black addidas wc boots all round I say

[magicTs]

I agree with Redm however I do like the Sir Alex approach to this issue. At best mediocre players such as Bouzid and Clum should not be wearing brightly coloured boots which only exacerbates their gashness when they can't even control the ball or pass it a few yards. JJ should have a word.

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/feb/22/manchester-united-premierleague

[kingdannyb]

Calum Elliot wore turquoise boots, yet fell over when touched by anyone, couldn't control or pass the ball and got hoyed (?) off at half-time. Ponce.

[Sarah O]

Players should be made to wear black books, shirts tucked in and play in short sleeves, nae gloves either (goalkeeper apart).

 

Any player at any level that requires fancy boots, poncy gloves or gets cold is a bloody woman.

[Ryan Gosling]

Rudi is the only player who should wear coloured boots if he wants.

[Snake Plissken]

I agree with Redm however I do like the Sir Alex approach to this issue. At best mediocre players such as Bouzid and Clum should not be wearing brightly coloured boots which only exacerbates their gashness when they can't even control the ball or pass it a few yards. JJ should have a word.

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/feb/22/manchester-united-premierleague

 

I believe Craig Levein had the same policy and I think it's fair enough, whatever keeps young players feet on the ground.

 

I don't care for coloured boots anyway and at a lower level I think they look ridiculous. There's something just wrong about seeing someone a couple stone overweight, huffing around a pitch in bright yellow boots with a hangover on a weekend morning.

[The People's Chimp]

 

I think it has a lot more to do with the feet inside those boots and the head attached to them rather than anything else. The colour of our players boots has to be the least of our worries.

 

Got to disagree a bit. It is beyond cringe when someone is shite and stoats about in coloured boots.

[Dr. Bapswent]

Couldn't care less what colour their boots are.

 

Cover a turd in glitter, and its still a turd.

[future is maroon]

No decent centre half should be wearing anything on their feet other thank black boots.

 

As for other players then again I think they should stick to black or white if need be. No danger should any players in spl think they are good enough to ponce about in bright blue, orange, yellow, pink or even in the case of Zal and Stevenson Gold boots - if a lot of the posers out there were half the player that they are then they would be twice the player that they are.

 

Grown men at 5's etc that wear the bright coloured boots seriously need to have a word with themselves. At least school kids have age as an excuse as they are copying their idols from spl and epl plus the fact they will have grown up only having ever known coloured boots to be worn - up until about 10 years ago only a couple of players in every league wore them and now only a couple in every first team around the world wear black.

 

World Cups, Munidals and Puma Kings all the way.

[Sergio Garcia]

Might seem like a trivial thing but it does annoy the hell out of me, if they have to have coloured boots then make them earn them, some of the colours they choose are just rank!

[redm]

Got to disagree a bit. It is beyond cringe when someone is shite and stoats about in coloured boots.

 

I guess I've just never associated coloured boots with decent footballers, in much the same way that I haven't ever really considered what it means for players to wear weird headgear, leave shirts untucked or allow socks to slouch. It's just personal preference. The only grievance I have is that some of them pick colours that just clash terribly with maroon and that's a terrible accessorising faux pas....

[i8hibsh]

A player would've got ripped apart back in the day for wearing the kind of shit you see on players feet nowadays. The 'day' when fans mattered and football was played by men.

[Sharpie]

Somebody should try real boots. The ones with the hard toe, with a wee strap type thing across the instep and high ankles.Covered in lots of dubbin. I am almost certain they would be a real success. The player could use extra long white laces, they would be wrapped around the boot, brought up and tied around the ankle.

[kingdannyb]

Rudi is the only player who should wear coloured boots if he wants.

 

Agreed, but only white ones - this is why:

 

[Anatoly_Korobochka]

Its a pair of boots, does it matter?

[Miller Jambo 60]

Sunday's team sported a bizarre array of luminous yellow, turquoise, blue and white boots and looked daft.

I say make them all play in traditional black boots for a more professional appearance.

That's why we got humped.

 

Nonsense, or am I onto something here ?

 

 

I had umbro red boots in 98 was my downfall

[Miller Jambo 60]

Rudi is the only player who should wear coloured boots if he wants.

 

 

Correct

[Therapist]

I think it has a lot more to do with the feet inside those boots and the head attached to them

 

 

No wonder we're pish if our players' heads are attached directly to their feet.

[redm]

No wonder we're pish if our players' heads are attached directly to their feet. <img src='http://www.hmfckickback.co.uk/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/teehee.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

 

You know what I meant...

 

Would certainly explain a few things though....

[jamboinglasgow]

I have never really followed this argument that players should not be allowed boots in any other colour then black. It is strange.

 

But if you look at it through the idea that the British football mentality is based around the strength of the team unit, where individuality is at risk to the structure and effectiveness of the team then it makes more sense. We fear the idea the that a player may have views above his station, as if he does that then he may decide to act on his own and the team unit fails. So not being uniform in the way we are dressed by the different colour shoes then they are a danger to the team unit, so these early signs must be stamped out.

 

But it doesn't, manafactuerers are creating all kinds of different colour shoe, sometimes it can be as simple as Nike or Adidas advising the player to have these shoes as they are the new pro ex 1 GT and they just happen that they are yellow/blue/red/white as they designers thought it looked good in that colour. The player did not say, hey I am better then everyone else so I will get blue shoes.