This got me thinking about the first pair of branded football boots I had as a kid. I had a pair of Adidas Beckenbauers with moulded studs when I went to secondary school, which would have been around 1976 or 1977.
Can't remember my first - but do remember getting a pair of Patrick boots around the time of your recollections - made with Kangaroo leather... incredibly comfortable compared to what I'd had before ...
Yellow stripes, right? They were a right of passage in those days. Beckebauer Supers I'm sure mine were called. Patrick were also nice, but Puma King was the absolute bomb when I got a bit older at school. Still are TBH.
Don’t remember yellow stripes TBH, do remember they had quite big tongues which was somehow fashionable. Don’t remember what I had after that, but pretty sure I didn’t have Puma. I do remember being desperate to have screw in studs!
