Where there is winter sport registration there is the suddenly urgent need to buy football boots.
Master 15 has some kind of football boot fetish. He scours the catalogues and web sites for months in the lead up to the season...trying to find the perfect pair. They can't be last seasons...even if those ones are practically identical and marked at 75% off. Oh no....football boots are intrinsically tied up in your worth as a person....apparently.
There is much talk among the boys as to which ones each of them are getting....texts are exchanged with photos attached.....they are compared and discussed, dissected and discarded, until a short list of "acceptable" pairs remain. Then it's a race to see who gets which ones....after all it's poor taste to get the same pair as your mates. Hence Master 15's "urgent" need to buy boots.
So yesterday, after school we went to Rebel Sports.
We have a Rebel store about 15 minutes from home...but Master 15 had already inspected their stock...and found it unacceptable. It was therefore decreed that we had to travel around 45 mins to the next nearest Rebel Sports and buy the boots there....from their superior range....by the way I'm pretty certain it was all exactly the same...much like McDonalds.
Football boots have changed over the years...and I'm not referring to their superior performance or aerodynamics or contoured heels or asymmetrical lock lacing or any of the other things the Sales Assistant may have mentioned...which I can't really recall because my eyes were too busy glazing over.
I am referring to the colour...once they were black or white...with a blue stripe if you were feeling particularly lairy....not any more folks....
....and they range from very expensive...to exorbitantly, take out an extra mortgage expensive.
....tried them on.......and settled on these......
KA-CHING......
oh and don't forget the shin guards......
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