Adler Yatagarashu Long Term Review

The definition of balance A lot can happen in two years. Especially in the football boot market. Just think about what models were available two years ago versus now. Boots seem like they were released forever ago, and we have seen leather disappear from major brands as well as some huge market shake ups. Heck, […]

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Adidas F50 Elite vs Nike Air Zoom Mercurial Vapor 16 Elite

It has been some time since we have two speed boot releases drop around the same time and put the boots more in direct competition with each other. Both Nike and adidas have always taken different approaches to their speed boots and with the newest generation of the F50 (which adidas have brought back) and […]

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Lockhart Boot Blog Boot of the Year Awards 2023

It has been another wild year for football boots. The absolute deluge of releases is hard to keep up with at times but at least it gives us all something to talk about. Once again, we had massive amounts of remakes, lots of supposedly new tech and the marketplace continuing to expand out of control. […]

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Is 32 teams too much too soon?

Massive thanks to @BootWizardBootReviews for putting this together! Yes, for all of you who thought I might have dropped off the edge of the earth, I have not, I still live, however family life has taken a bit of a toll on my ability to produce Boot Wizard videos (not complaining). However, that isn’t going […]

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Nike and Puma Abandon K leather

Nike and Puma’s latest moves seem dishonest News broke recently that Nike was going to stop production of kangaroo leather football boots. In the announcement, Nike also mentioned that they had divested of their only kangaroo leather supplier in 2021. This comes only two weeks after Puma had announced that they will also stop the […]

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Boot Wishes for 2023

With every new year comes the positivity of potential releases. We are already seeing leaks of a new Predator that looks like it has the potential to be something great and as well as seeing the first remake of the year in the form of the Predator Precision. Of course, I am sure we will […]

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LockhartBootBlog’s 2022 Boot Awards

It’s been arguably one of the best years for football boot releases in the last few years. We were treated to some lovely remakes, some great colourways, World Cup packs, limited edition releases galore, some good, some bad. We are still seeing release issues and some bizarre decisions, like Nike’s recent limited edition boots not […]

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Mizuno’s Big Problem

Continuing to raise prices poses issues I am a massive fan of Mizuno. Since the first time I wore their boots bout thirteen years ago, there has never been a time when I did not have at least one pair in rotation and at least a couple of pairs in my collection. Even now, though […]

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Mizuno Alpha Japan Review

Top Speed One of the things that Mizuno has not done in some time was make an out and out speed boot. The brand always pointed to the Morelia Neo 3 and the Neo 3 Beta as it’s speed boot options, but they are not as outright focused on performance as other speed boots on […]

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Capitten: What’s Going Wrong

Issues with a new company doesn’t bode well for the future Capitten made a minor splash on social media when they announced that they were the boot suppliers for Andres Iniesta. A little further digging makes it appear that the Andres Iniesta is heavily involved in the design of the boots themselves and looks like […]

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