A crazy idea with incredible impact The football boot enthusiast community exploded with surprise earlier this week with the launch of adidas’ Memory Lane pack, which brought back revamped versions of the much-beloved adiZero series. Even crazier, each different colourway was a product of adidas’ designers working directly with different retailers. While some of adidas’ […]
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A Lesson for any small company Pantofola D’Oro used to have a committed cult following in the boot world. They were always known as a company that made beautiful, high-quality, and comfortable football boots. About five or so years ago, they began to lose this image when they began to start having boots that were […]
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And not in the way you think There has recently been more focus than ever on limited edition boots and part of this is because it seems like we are constantly seeing more and more limited drops over the past several years. As part of this, there is also an increase in collectors of said […]
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Like spinning tires in mud over and over again Shout out to @SFGSoccer on Instagram for the article idea In the past few years there has been a lot of releases that are either remakes or colourway call-backs to boots from the past 20-odd years. This has been a boon for a lot of people […]
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Err on the safe side. As mentioned in a previous article, the past year has an extraordinary rise in the amount of resellers around especially on Instragram. Every week it seems that there are several new sellers popping up. Although this is a great thing if you are looking older boots, there are several drawbacks […]
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Pro players are starting a change Over the past year or so, we have seen a large increase in the amount of boot resellers on Instagram. It has become easier than ever to track down a pair of your favourite boots from yesteryear. And while this is seen a change in buying habits from consumers, […]
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The Swoosh has dropped several big players this year Over the past several months, a number of high-profile players seem to have not had their contracts renewed by Nike. Raheem Sterling and Robert Lewandowski are just two of the well-known players to have dropped the Swoosh and have begun wearing other brand’s boots. The most […]
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Good foundation for future potential Kingdom Football appeared seemingly out of nowhere as a new classic boot brand last month, though they were actually founded in 2019. The brand is a bit unique in the fact that they not only use leather that is a by-product from the meat industry and vow to only be […]
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Its not “This boot vs. that boot” its “This boot versus everything else in the market” With the rise of online retailing and YouTube reviews, information about products is more readily available than at any time before. With only a few button clicks, anyone can find out almost anything about any boot on the market. […]
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How Mizuno has created an audience for a new product About a week ago, Mizuno teased a new product that even I had no idea about. It seemed at first as if it was going to be a new boot launch or something. Imagine the surprise when Mizuno announced they were launching ZeroGlide grip laces […]
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