Talk:Football boot

History Section

Dear editors of this page, after reviewing the history section of this article, it appears to be a little bit brought. It lacks specific facts related to the time periods presented in this section. Another problem of this section is citations, there needs to be more of them to provide more credibility for this section and page in general. With a suggestion of editing this section in the future I also want to provide an excellent source that can be used to contribute to this section. Williams, Jean (2015-01, Vol.35 (1), p.81-107). Given the Boot: Reading the Ambiguities of British and Continental Football Boot Design. ISSN: 1746-0263 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Viacheslav7 (talk • contribs) 14:25, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Laces

Does anybody know why football boot laces are wrapped around the sole before they are tied, please? 80.249.48.109 12:35, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Usually because they are long. --Hamedog_Talk|^@ 12:14, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Actually I believe that this is done to make the boot feel as tight as possible. I asked several members of my club and this was the consensus. 131.111.184.25 (talk) 18:11, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Lighter boots

The way football boots began is that they were originally heavy boots with protection for the ankle, and these remained the standard style of boot in northern Europe for many years where the boots needed to stand up to the rigours of use on muddy winter pitches. A lighter boot without ankle protection and resembling a studded shoe became popular in southern Europe and South America where pitches were generally harder and less muddy and this eventually became the standard style. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.218.3.222 (talk) 10:38, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

...because, of course, their style of play and the performance of their players led the world.

Nuttyskin (talk) 16:43, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Nowadays, I have heard that most big companies such as Nike and Adidas, that make soccer shoes will eventually phase out leather due to environmental issues. Back in old days, soccer shoes were all made out of leather. Sadly, however, soon most soccer shoes will be plastic or synthetic material, which will be lighter than leather, but will feel as cheap and less quality. Nevertheless, I think the companies will try to make the synthetic feel more and more like leather shoes so I think we should wait and see what happens. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jasonlee9102 (talk • contribs) 21:28, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

Really?

This reads like an Adidas advert guys, c'mon. 77.102.229.7 (talk) 19:15, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Non-football boots

Why does the article discuss rugby boots? Isn't that entirely off-topic? Hairy Dude (talk) 23:43, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

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Boot image

I find the image actually quite useful, Berrely/Firefly. Wikipedia:No 3D illustrations seems to refer to images that require 3D equipment to view, not 2D images of a 3D model. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 21:53, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

I just checked Commons and uploader says it's their own original animation work, so copyvio seems unlikely; I'm going to restore. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 05:36, 2 July 2021 (UTC)

Sdkb, huh, I learned something today. If so then I don't really have an issue with it - even if it does look a little incongruous. firefly ( t · c ) 06:32, 2 July 2021 (UTC)

@Firefly It's horribly distracting in the Android app. It shows up as the main image for the article (eg in the mini lists of suggested reading), and I can't find any way to stop the animation, which is made even more distracting because of the speed. So there's an unwanted rotating football boot on the screen when I'm not even viewing the article.

I keep coming across articles that do this, and it's actually making me steer clear of them. Musiconeologist (talk) 18:24, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

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