Thanks to Sokito (@officialsokito) for making this post possible. Kangaroo leather has been for many years seen as the top leather available for football boots. No matter the brand, whenever there is a top leather model it is almost always kangaroo leather. After all, kangaroo leather is a unique material. In its best-used form, it […]
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A Classic that Perfoms Massive Thanks to KicksClassico for sorting me out with this pair. Please follow him on Instagram! While a classic design, the Puma Paramexico still remains in demand in Japan. This can be seen by the fact that Puma Japan still offers three different models at three different price points of the […]
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The needed future of football boots Recently, there has been a brand called Sokito beginning to make some waves in the boot world. While not officially launched yet, the brand promises to make their boots from fully eco-friendly materials. They are also starting a pilot scheme to take old boots and recycle them into new […]
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Brands should give us a choice We’re currently in somewhat of a remake and limited edition paradise at the moment as there always seems to be something new coming every month. The year is almost 5 months in, but we’ve seen tons of releases with even Mizuno getting in on the remake action. But as […]
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For Keeping their Prices Down As many readers of this blog will know, I have often hammered on about the prices of boots getting too high. Every single year we’re seeing higher and higher prices for even mid-level model boots. But if we focus on this too much, miss some of the success stories as […]
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In terms of Pricing Yesterday, Nike dropped the Mercurial Air Zoom Ultra SE and to no-one’s surprise, it quickly sold out. It was pretty much a guaranteed success given that it was based on a much-hyped concept boot and was limited to 1000 pairs. They will certainly show up on certain sites for resell in […]
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With the previous X Ghosted series from adidas, it was difficult to justify going for the Ghosted+ since the Ghosted.1 was fairly similar and the Ghosted+ do not have too much about it to justify the increased price or the foregoing the extra lockdown that the Ghosted.1 had available. However, with the launch of the […]
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Setting Up some Loose Goals In a hope to stick to somewhat of a plan this year, I figured I should layout the plans for this year. Obviously, I will be doing reviews of various boots, but I would also like to be more consistent in terms of producing content. I am going to try […]
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What a thrilling ride this year was. Football almost Came Home, we were treated to a ton (too many) of releases, some great colourways, some weird colourways, plenty of highs and plenty of lows. We have also seen many collectors begin to leave the market and the continued rise of resellers. Obviously, there’s more to […]
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The end of the year is fast approaching, and we have again had a year of remakes, “fresh” colourways and releases to give almost everyone a choice. We have seen Nike been put on the defensive by adidas with the release of the Speedflow and Puma continue to put pressure on those two with releases […]
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