Late Tackle

GIVE ’EM THE BOOT!

by
The Late Tackle Magazine Team
19 December 2012

Pink, orange, yellow, turquoise – there’s no colour of boot that footballers don’t wear these days. But remember when boots only came in black? JOHNNY GREANEY does.

WHILE Michel Platini and his UEFA buffoons are making up new rules willy-nilly – scheduling Euro 2020 across the entire continent and introducing donothing officials behind the goals – they should try addressing football’s biggest problem: Coloured boots.
You can’t watch 22 lads kicking a pig’s bladder around a pitch these days without being blinded by day-glo footwear in al...

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