As they say, football is a funny old game. Eleven men on a football pitch chasing a ball around and trying to keep eleven other men from scoring a goal. Football keeps most of the male population occupied for most of the weekend as well as large periods of time during such events as the World Cup or European Championships. Thousands of grown men play park football each weekend with little more than a touch of fitness, a pair of shin pads and a pair of football boots. But what football boots should you purchase when you want to play? Not all football boots are created equally and not all football pitches play the same way. So you need a pair of football boots that will enable you to play a whole season in differing weather conditions as well as different playing surfaces.

If your children enjoy playing sports you may have the perennial problem of how to keep them entertained during the long winter months as well as keeping them off the computer, games console and keeping their fitness up. One alternative could be indoor soccer. Around the country indoor soccer arenas are springing up to enable children and adults alike to play indoor soccer through the dark winter months. Many indoor football arenas hold weekly training sessions for children and may even hold tournaments throughout the winter.

For those of you who have ever played football or soccer at any level you’ll understand how important good boots are to your performance. It used to be a ritual for my team mates and me to go shopping in the pre-season together to get our new boots. When I was younger there was choice alright but nothing compared to today, you’re choice consisted of moulded studs or screw in and then the different makes. Today the choice is endless, but what ones should you choose and why?