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Mitre

Denis Law advertised Mitre Boots

Jim writes :


Check out the boots on Denis Law. Denis had a contract to wear Mitre boots, but he hated Mitres, so Mitre let him wear Adidas as long as nobody could tell the were NOT Mitre.


Gola

Jim himself owned Gola boots, and sent me these pictures of their advertising brochure.

Gola boots brochure 1971

As advertised by Gary Sprake

Hummel

Here's a picture of one of the 70s most famous boots, the white Hummel.

The White Boot from Hummel
From advert in August 1971 edition of Charles Buchan's Football Monthly

The players who wore the white boot:
Ian Hutchinson (Chelsea), Ron Davies, Terry Cooper, Alan Hinton, Colin Todd (Sunderland) and Martin Chivers (Spurs)
From advert in August 1971 edition of Charles Buchan's Football Monthly

Also see ...

Ian Hutchinson's (Chelsea) 1970 Cup Final (black Addidas) boots sell for 920 pounds on ebay, see Autumn 2005

See Pelé and Puma boots, at Summer 2006

Thanks to Jim Ross for the originalo inspiration for this page, and for the top 3 images.

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