Hot on the tail of the Sniper Speed review we have their leather counterpart, the Legend Speed. Much like the name implies this boot is a heritage speed hybrid putting it in a much beloved and successful category in the boot market. Unlike a lot of heritage boots on the …
Read More »How to Kick Off The New Year In the Right Pair of Boots
Sometimes the new year is a perfect opportunity to get yourself into a fresh pair of boots. We are hitting 2014 and once the cold snap currently hitting the country moves on, a lot of you will be shopping for something to wear for the spring season. But ensuring you …
Read More »Top 10 Performing Soccer Cleats Of 2013
How could we round out the year without bringing to you our list of the best of the best boots from 2013. It has been an extremely tough process whittling down the list, with a definite 5 other boots that could easily have cracked their way into the top 10. …
Read More »Personalized and Custom Boots – Best Of 2013
This year, personalized and custom boot releases were definitely the “IN” thing. With the addition of miadidas and NikeID, it seems like all companies are looking for new ways to promote their boots and take the spotlight in any way, shape or form they can. From the downright funky (Puma …
Read More »Where do you play? Staff Edition
I called on the other writers of soccercleats101 to deliver some pictures of the places they play soccer on a regular basis, and they delivered in a big way. I hope that this is just the first installment of an extended series that will showoff soccer fields, gyms, and other …
Read More »World Cup 2014 Draw – “Who to Watch and Why” Part 2
Welcome back to part two of my analysis of the draw for World Cup 2014. I’m going to continue on in the same vein as the first half of the draw running through my opinion of the group picking a winner and a runner up and highlighting some players to …
Read More »World Cup 2014 Draw – “Who to Watch and Why” Part 1
So this morning the world stopped what it was doing for about 60 minutes and watched the draw for the upcoming World Cup 2014. The draw in classic FIFA fashion featured retired footballers picking small balls out of pots; pots with numbers like 1,2,3, and 4 and letters like X. …
Read More »The Soccer List – Arsene Gets Shirty!
It’s Monday and well that means it’s time for me to climb inside “The Week That Was” machine and re-visit some stories from…errr…the week that was, it’s another edition of The Soccer List. 1. Things get a little shirty at the Emirates Sometimes the history and unwritten rules involved in …
Read More »The Soccer List – Featuring an Ashes Tribute and Le Coupe Grey
G’day and welcome to your regularly scheduled edition of The Soccer List, where every Monday (usually morning) I channel my inner Pat Benatar and Hit You With My Best Shot (kids if you don’t know that reference look it up it’s classic music), of news and views from the week past and including …
Read More »The Soccer List, Midweek Edition – Electric Bugaloo
So after a pretty crazy couple of international World Cup qualifiers it’s time to bring up a rare mid-week “The Soccer List“. I’ve boiled the kettle and am ready to dive into the biggest and weirdest stories from the last 48 hours. 1. Ronaldo Pretty Much Seals Balon d’Or I …
Read More »The Soccer List – The Legend of the Drunken Linesman
Hello and as CBC Radio One host Jian Ghomeshi is prone to saying “Happy Monday”. Welcome to a shorter than usual edition of The Soccer List, thank you International Break! Rest assured SC101 universe I’ll be throwing up a celebratory “Zlatan is in the World Cup” edition Wednesday morning, or …
Read More »How to Pick the Right Footwear for Footgolf!
If you haven’t yet heard about Footgolf, you must have been living under a rock for the past 12 months! In that period, the sport has quickly blossomed and taken a hold of the US market. It is, in fact, one of the fastest growing sports in the country, with …
Read More »The Soccer List – Black Cats at Night? Sunderland’s Delight
Hello or if you’re reading in Australia, G’day! Welcome back to The Soccer List, your one stop shop for all the major (and some not so major) stories from the last week in soccer. So hopefully your cup of tea is sufficiently mashed and we can take a Monday morning …
Read More »The Soccer List – Boots, Blowouts, Blowups and Wizards (Yes Wizards)
Hello, and welcome to the inaugural edition of The Soccer List, your one stop shop for all of the major (and occasionally minor) talking points from the recently passed week in soccer, and on the review front here on the site. Given that this is SC101 there will of course …
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