Your Boots

So, I've never really owned a great pair of boots until recently when I bought the Nike Premier. Before then I was just buying a cheap $80 pair each season which would conveniently break during the next pre-season. So anyway, I was wondering if anyone could give me some tips before I go off and ruin a nice pair of boots

I've read online that before wearing them in my first game, I should wear them in a warm bath to let them soak for 20 minutes but that sounds like a complete load of crap to me...

Anyway, feel free to post your current boots here, your favourite boots of all time or just general boot maintenance tips

give em a good going over with Dubbin

Adidas Santiago when I were a lad. Oh and this was all fields then too.

Holtender1982 wrote:give em a good going over with Dubbin

Where would I find Dubbin in Australia? Does it have to be Dubbin or are there other brands that do the same thing? I've probably got some hiding in the back of a cupboard that I've never used...

The Adidas Santiago's look good. Are they what the Copa Mundials are modelled on?

It's been a few years since I have had a pair of football boots on these old feet. I have no idea what the best boots are these days.

The Adidas Predator were the big thing when I was, 11-12. everybody in my class seemed to have a pair. I think Beckham used to wear them.

No idea what the current trend is.

I think I still have my first pair of footer boots that my grandad made for me when I was about five. Made of thick leather and laces right up to the ankles. I must have looked like that Chumley-Warner bloke out of the 'Fast Show'.

'Small boys...playing football...in the park. Jumpers for goalposts. Enduring images, isn't it? Mm?' Good old Ron Manager

Last time I played football regularly was in the indoor league at the Villa. Used to love it, my pre-match ritual was a pint of Guinness. I was a holding centre forward.   

My fave pair were Puma King