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
Another important consideration is the type of surface you will be playing football on. football boots are made especially to go on the various playing surfaces and they are initialed in the name to tell you which surface they are suitable for. The playing surfaces are firm ground, soft ground, hard ground, indoors or on AstroTurf. The football boots will then have initials as an extension in the model name that signifies these five surfaces - FG, SG, HG, IN and TF.
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