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  • ElliotCAFC
    ElliotCAFC Posts: 2,552
    felix_31 said:
    AberystwythAddick said:

    Is a footless sock just a leg warmer!
    Can someone explain the point of these, please? 
    Most footballers have special socks that they wear on their feet for extra comfort and grip and then put the club socks over them, hence the footless socks. 
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,258
    felix_31 said:
    AberystwythAddick said:

    Is a footless sock just a leg warmer!
    Can someone explain the point of these, please? 
    Footballers nowadays wear things called grip socks, which are usually slightly padded, breathable socks with lots of rubber bumps on them to help them grip onto their boots. It means the foot doesn't slip around inside the boot and they have better traction, meaning less injuries. Before, they would cut the end of the kit socks and tape the bottom around their ankles, but as most players are doing this now, instead of seeing mass sock mutilation across elite football, clubs and kit manufacturers now make footless socks (also known as leg warmers) to make the process simpler
  • Valley11
    Valley11 Posts: 11,983
    Interesting. Why don’t they just make the socks with the grips in them? 
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,258
    No idea, probably because there's a multitude of these grip sock manufacturers now and you'd probably have a load of footballers still cutting up the socks as they prefer something else 
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,801
    Plus players tend to train in short grip socks, so can wear the same type of sock at the weekend 
  • Sage
    Sage Posts: 7,278
    Really like both home kit and goalkeeper kit. However, how likely is the keeping going to be wearing the black? Referees are in black most of the time so the keeper will be wearing whatever the away or third choice is. Nice shirt but not sure why they signed off on it. 
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,801
    Sage said:
    Really like both home kit and goalkeeper kit. However, how likely is the keeping going to be wearing the black? Referees are in black most of the time so the keeper will be wearing whatever the away or third choice is. Nice shirt but not sure why they signed off on it. 
    Ref has to change his top to adapt to the teams 
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,258
    Sage said:
    Really like both home kit and goalkeeper kit. However, how likely is the keeping going to be wearing the black? Referees are in black most of the time so the keeper will be wearing whatever the away or third choice is. Nice shirt but not sure why they signed off on it. 
    Happened a couple of seasons ago too if I recall, the 2 main keeper kits shown when we first launched them were orange and pink. Then someone realised they clashed with the red home kit too much so we wore the green "third" keeper kit all year, and then also realised at away games, chances are we are wearing red or the opposition are, so again we couldn't wear the pink or orange kit! 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,842
    Does it matter if the ref kit clashes slightly with a gk kit? The ref never stands in the middle of the penalty box, so will never be near the keeper.
  • Sage
    Sage Posts: 7,278
    No kit can clash with the referee. There has to be a very clear distinction.

    I like the kit but the likelihood is, we won’t see the black keeper shirt in action as much as the others. It’s different to a normal outfield kit, keepers change theirs far more regularly.

    What you’ll probably find is the away kit of the keeper will have to have RSK on it at times and University of Greenwich when we are in our away kit. 
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  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,258
    Also probably rules out a black away or third kit for us this season
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,801
    Sage said:
    No kit can clash with the referee. There has to be a very clear distinction.

    I like the kit but the likelihood is, we won’t see the black keeper shirt in action as much as the others. It’s different to a normal outfield kit, keepers change theirs far more regularly.

    What you’ll probably find is the away kit of the keeper will have to have RSK on it at times and University of Greenwich when we are in our away kit. 
    Refs in the EFL are issued 4 different shirt colours so they don’t clash with team kits, just have to get used to refs in blue or bright yellow 
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,225
    edited July 2023
    It's strange now seeing refs in black, same as players in black boots.
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,010
    The Red Robin said:
    MrOneLung said:
    The Newcastle away kit from 
    Nothing to see here, no Saudi state links. 
    I think it's actually quite a nice shirt though.
  • clive
    clive Posts: 19,452
    Leicester City faces a fine of up to £880,000 for colluding to fix the price of replica football kits, the UK's competition regulator has said.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-66110620
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,916
    Probably made more than that out of it.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,975
    JD Sports proper grasses
  • cafc-4-life
    cafc-4-life Posts: 1,305
    Any idea why the keeper kit has completely disappeared from the online store? Is it still available in store. Was considering getting it for the Spain trip.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,617
    edited July 2023
    cafc-4-life said:
    Any idea why the keeper kit has completely disappeared from the online store? Is it still available in store. Was considering getting it for the Spain trip.
    Saw someone on twitter yesterday having got both the home shirt and black keeper shirt.
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,916
    Just need the 4/5 year old kids kits to drop now amd then I can purchase. 
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  • cafc999
    cafc999 Posts: 4,967


  • cafc-4-life
    cafc-4-life Posts: 1,305
    guinnessaddick said:
    cafc-4-life said:
    Any idea why the keeper kit has completely disappeared from the online store? Is it still available in store. Was considering getting it for the Spain trip.
    Saw someone on twitter yesterday having got both h the home shirt and black keeper shirt.
    Hopefully in store then! When they make them tight fit nowadays I'd rather black :lol:

  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,617
    cafc999 said:


    Obviously not prepared for coming in contact with water.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,617
  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 14,467
    cafc999 said:


    So this shouldn't happen, but also, don't wash your football shirts on hot. It's a cold wash, whatever that means in Celsius. 
  • PopIcon
    PopIcon Posts: 5,970
    SDAddick said:
    cafc999 said:


    So this shouldn't happen, but also, don't wash your football shirts on hot. It's a cold wash, whatever that means in Celsius. 
    30 is considered a cold wash.
  • KiwiValley
    KiwiValley Posts: 3,379
    guinnessaddick said:
    Gratuitous trolling. Someone has just reversed the photo... 
  • PopIcon
    PopIcon Posts: 5,970
    KiwiValley said:
    guinnessaddick said:
    Gratuitous trolling. Someone has just reversed the photo... 
    Upside-down?
  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 14,467
    edited July 2023
    PopIcon said:
    SDAddick said:
    cafc999 said:


    So this shouldn't happen, but also, don't wash your football shirts on hot. It's a cold wash, whatever that means in Celsius. 
    30 is considered a cold wash.
    Wait, really? 86F is considered cold? I feel like here it's like 65F/15C.

    Update: Did some research, a "Cold" wash in the States is between 60F-80F, which seems like a pretty broad range. So yeah, 30 would be at the top end of that, but not outside of it completely.

    I retract my previous statement, but also, still recommend washing football shirts (as well as other graphic shirts or shirts with prominent logos) on the coldest possible setting. Maybe do a medium spin instead of the highest possible spin. You'll thank me in 3-4 washes when the logo, not the badge, starts to fall off. 

    Also, for the record, Castore has put out some poor quality items, like I'm not on their side in this.
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    edited July 2023
    SDAddick said:
    PopIcon said:
    SDAddick said:
    cafc999 said:


    So this shouldn't happen, but also, don't wash your football shirts on hot. It's a cold wash, whatever that means in Celsius. 
    30 is considered a cold wash.
    Wait, really? 86F is considered cold? I feel like here it's like 65F/15C.

    Update: Did some research, a "Cold" wash in the States is between 60F-80F, which seems like a pretty broad range. So yeah, 30 would be at the top end of that, but not outside of it completely.

    I retract my previous statement, but also, still recommend washing football shirts (as well as other graphic shirts or shirts with prominent logos) on the coldest possible setting. Maybe do a medium spin instead of the highest possible spin. You'll thank me in 3-4 washes when the logo, not the badge, starts to fall off. 

    Also, for the record, Castore has put out some poor quality items, like I'm not on their side in this.
    Thanks, but all this information is surplus to requirements. My staff deal with all such matters, and I dont care what method is employed to achieve it, they could beat it with rocks in my lake as far as I am concerned. My only stipulation is that my Balmer 1 shirt is returned to me in pristine condition with no eggy down the front.

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