Moving forward 300 years saw football developing and gaining popularity throughout Britain, but still remaining as an unstructured and informal pastime, with teams representing local factories and villages in a burgeoning industrial nation. Players would wear their hard, leather work boots, which were long laced and steel toe-capped as the first football botts. These football boots would also have metal studs or tacks hammered into them to increase ground grip and stability.
Football Boots – The 1900′s to 1940′s
Football boot styles remained relatively constant throughout the 1900′s up to the end of the second world war. The most significant events in the football boot world in the first part of the twentieth century were the formation of several football boot producers who are still making football boots today
