If you’re like me you’ll spend all pre-season picking the right ones, there’s so much to think about, colours, ground type, brand, budget.
Even more so with modern-day boots, there are so many variations, knitted, sock fit, laceless, different quality levels and even choices for what type of player you are, do you fall into the speed, skill, or accuracy category?
But once you’ve got through all of this, the buzz starts, getting them home, putting them on and walking around your living room, with football socks on, as if this will give you an accurate idea of how they will perform.
Then it’s waiting time, hoping the weather is perfect on Sunday, but really you’re going to wear them anyway right?
You turn up Sunday morning waiting to see if your team are going to love them or give you stick, do you even care if they notice? Probably not!
Then you’re on the pitch, the confidence boost you get is unparalleled, whether this transfers to the pitch and your performance is never really a given. But for that whole game you feel a little lighter, a little faster and you know you made the right choice.
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