I remember my grandad made a big deal of wanting to be the person that bought me my first pair of football boots, he took me to a little shop in Mill Hill in Blackburn when I was about 8 - I came out with a pair of Lotto with the Italian flag colours on the logo - felt like the most cosmopolitan goalkeeper in my Sunday League!
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We’re going wildly off the threac topic here 
, but i was a proper tart when it came to football boots in the 80s - Puma Dalglish Gold, Adidas World Cup, Nike Tiempo and Nike Airstrike Pro - my mum definitely spoiled me rotten when it came to footwear. Ridiculous boots for a goalkeeper tbh. But nothing was excitjng as being taken every season to that mad little goalkeeper shop near Reading for a lovely new pair of Uhlsport gloves and outrageously coloured goalkeeper jersey.
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I wore New Balance boots as a kid in the 80’s cos my hero, Bryan Robson, wore them, not that I was ever really comfortable playing in boots as a kid, much preferred playing street/park football in trainers.
I met Robson at an instore thing he was doing at a little sport’s shop in Altrincham just before Mexico '86, I was 10 or 11 and was so star struck the only thing I could squeak out was ‘Good luck’ (for the WC) which he never heard cos he was already talking to the next kid in line. That was the WC he broke his shoulder in
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I had the first Nike football boots they released and they were so uncomfortable. My favourite boots ever were the Patrick ones that came with the tag… Soft as you like…
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Ive just had a quick Google of the Nike Air Strike Pro I had. £65 in the mid-80s. Jesus. My mum was a soft touch…
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As worn by Roy Race
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Maybe we need a ‘Jumpers for Goalposts’ thread???
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Aah…Oranges at half time…Ruddy mud stained thighs?.. isn’t it? Marvellous
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ralgex
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Getting pulled off at half-time…
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Rodney Marsh talking about playing for England under Sir Alf Ramsey.
We had a team talk before the game and Alf told me we all had to work harder. “Rodney you in particular,” he said in his accent.
Then he said: “if you don’t work hard I’m going to pull you off at half time.”
I said: “Christ, at Man City all we get is a cup of tea and an orange.”
Nobody laughed. And not only that, but it was the last time I ever got picked.
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Yes! although didn’t he have the ones above those that also had a yellow swoosh?
Yeah you’re right, only the best for Melchesters finest !
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the footy heads hijack yet another thread
take it here ya big prannies
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Don’t worry… Things always take their natural course…
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I’m on another forum (longstanding London bike oriented, very very salty place) and nothing causes quite so much grief as thread derails, which happen all the time…
Hilarious 
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I can imagine. I just like how mellow everyone is here… I’ll set up the jumpers for goalposts for childhood business and football stuff now : D
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