[Archived] Football Boots

[Presty On Tour]

As my pre-season has just started and I haven't played for a while after my acl knee reconstruction, I thought I'd treat myself to some new boots.

I've had many pairs of Predators over the years and really like the new white/night sky/cyan edition out this week, the star design is very cool although i'm quite tempted by Nike's new T90's in similar colours.

To keep options open, I was browsing through other makes and found these

Puma Power Cat 1.10- VIP Edition

Doubt the demand will be to high tbh.

The best boots ever made were the 1998 Predator Accelerator

2nd hand boots still fetch around £200 on ebay.

[Tooogs]

These are what I will be ordering for the new season...

http://www.prodirectsoccer.com/staticfeature.asp?WID=7942&ALT=Pantofola%20d%27Oro%20Football%20Boots

[heysham rover]

There are only 2 sorts of boots you need to look at really. World Cups for when its wet, Copa Mundials for when its dry or on astro. I bought 2 pairs of each (match and training) for this season at the weekend. I havent worn a different sort of boots since i was 14, you can beat a classic.

[den]

I still wear these, real leather and great protection for the ankles.

[rog of the rovers]

Accelerators!!! Loved those boots.

My favourite of all time was the Predator Mania's

I currently have the Nike CTRL but dont really like them, hopefully get some more predators when I can afford some.

[deryck guyler's spoon]

In 1986 I took advantage of the "Hand of God" incident and bought, at a much reduced price, a pair of Puma Maradonna from Pratts in Mill Hill.

Great boots!

[alexanders]

Am going to buy these myself.

Pure nice retro black design and my friends have been bragging about them.

Adipure III Trx

[Majiball]

Please dont presume to think you know what I think or know about reserve team footballers at rovers or any other club for that matter, I knew an awful lot about them and had watched them a number of times as my father is a senior figure within a league 2 club and I often go with him to sign/scout players as its something of interest to me. Rovers have an excellent relationship with said League 2 club so have seen a number of players in closed door games, etc.

For playing:

For Coaching:

[Iceman]

[67splitscreen]

I still wear these, real leather and great protection for the ankles.

Good choice but always found the nails would poke through the inner sole, shredding your feet.

I preferred something a with a little bit more durability, also put the fear of God into the opposition.

Grip was not great but but rarely turned your ankles.

At least five seasons between re studding.

[speeeeeeedie]

The best boots I ever had were Umbro Speciali's, both molded and 6 studs. What a quality boot.

[Ricky]

I have Nike air zoom supremacy for soft ground and Nike tiempo for hard ground. Wanted to go with adidas world cups but need a wide fit so always found nikes wider fitting.

[super_arran]

As my pre-season has just started and I haven't played for a while after my acl knee reconstruction, I thought I'd treat myself to some new boots.

I've had many pairs of Predators over the years and really like the new white/night sky/cyan edition out this week, the star design is very cool although i'm quite tempted by Nike's new T90's in similar colours.

To keep options open, I was browsing through other makes and found these

Puma Power Cat 1.10- VIP Edition

Doubt the demand will be to high tbh.

The best boots ever made were the 1998 Predator Accelerator

2nd hand boots still fetch around £200 on ebay.

I've got 2 pairs of the accelerators both in pretty good condition.

Think I'll be banging them on eBay.

Personally I prefer the adipure range.

They're the comfiest (sp) boots I've ever owned. Just ordered myself the new adipure 3's.

[67splitscreen]

No one fancy a pair like these.

Cheap as chips

[Majiball]

I have Nike air zoom supremacy for soft ground and Nike tiempo for hard ground. Wanted to go with adidas world cups but need a wide fit so always found nikes wider fitting.

Have nike sorted out the heels?? Every pair of their boots I have owned has rubbed against my achiles.

[Torgeir]

I use Lotto Italia 90 FG, the best boot around - only £30 pounds a pair

[RoyRover]

Quite a coincidence because tonight at gaelic football training, my adidas copa mundials tore. They are without doubt one of the best set of boots that I've had. Just pure class. They look great, they feel great and they are so durable.

As rog of the rovers rightly says, the Predator Manias were awesome. They are the best Predators ever in my opinion. I would absolutely love to get a pair now. I've checked ebay, but I'm not forking out £200+ for a pair. They are a work of art and wish that Adidas would bring back some of the classics like these and the Accelerator. It's funny because you get many gaelic footballers in Ireland still wear them year after year. I would love to know where they get them from. Cork's Eoin Cadogan wears them. I wonder if he and Cork players who tend to wear them a lot get them directly off Adidas?

[braddock]

i play barefoot

and i'm disabled

i win

[Torgeir]

I've used the Copa's for years as well, and they're very good as well. But they're biggest weakness is their durability. As for the Predator Accelerator "hype", I used to own a pair and it's the worst pair I've owned.

Mizuno make really good lightweight boots as well, the Mizuno Morelia's are great.

[dazmaz]

Not played 11 a side in a long time, but I have to say the best boots I ever had would have to be the F50I's and if I ever got chance to play 11s again I would most likely get the F50I Tunits

has all the studs you need included in the box.

At the moment I play 5 a side up JJB and 7 a side down at the Bric, for those I wear the World Cup Preds. some of the best astro boots out there.

[RoyRover]

Two other pairs of boots that I've had which I've really liked are the first edition of the Adidas F50's. I actually still have them, so that should save me having to buy some new boots.

And a pair of Adidas Absolute's which were brilliant for playing gaelic football in.