Holes in football socks, anyone know why?
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Chris_Boro
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Less restriction on the muscle. Lowers risk of cramp.
Apparently.
Apparently.
Norman_Conquest
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Chris_Boro
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We must have been forward thinking in South Bank.
Pretty sure it's just because everyone in South Bank had massive calves.
Glover_elbow
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And fat cankles
SpineyNorman
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It was largely down to these bar$t@rds when I was a young-un
Norman_Conquest
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Corco65
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Thanks for that. The first player I noticed was Saka from Arsenal and he still seems to go down with cramp alot. Maybe he needs to play without any socks and just strap on his shin pads.
Chris_Boro
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Thanks for that. The first player I noticed was Saka from Arsenal and he still seems to go down with cramp alot. Maybe he needs to play without any socks and just strap on his shin pads.
They use disposal shin pads these days too...
Corco65
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I wonder if they're expensive, I believe you can get some for a Tena!
jeff_potato
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It is probably more of a trend now, like covering your mouth to speak to another player.
I doubt that lip-readers are being employed to know the secrets being uttered between players grinding out a 0-0 between two League One teams on Sky.
I wonder if the kit manufacturers will start putting them in the back to avoid the subliminal hint of 'these socks are rubbish and I need to fix them.'
I doubt that lip-readers are being employed to know the secrets being uttered between players grinding out a 0-0 between two League One teams on Sky.
I wonder if the kit manufacturers will start putting them in the back to avoid the subliminal hint of 'these socks are rubbish and I need to fix them.'
hobblewobble
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It's fashion to make themselves different same as socks above the knee,ripped jeans and tattoos but then everybody else does it so they become sheep like.
The best one lately is blokes wearing shorts when it 's freezing so they can (not) impress us with their leg tats.
The best one lately is blokes wearing shorts when it 's freezing so they can (not) impress us with their leg tats.
atomicloonybin aka ALB
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The thing I've noticed as well is - like the NFL, which I suspect is where it started, some players are not wearing full length socks. Rather they seem to be wearing trainer socks (though I assume they're not the three for a quid types) - and what must be leggings / leg warmers. I did note this when Grant Hall was here, he got injured in a game and you could see that he'd taken a pair of socks and cut the feet out. And now some are wearing clearly intentional ones. Strange breed footballers, remember when nose plasters were big?
jeff_potato
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I think they're grip socks. I wear them for running and the sock essentially stays where it is put and it reduces blistering. Footballers can put tubular socks over the top to make sure that shin pads can be put on too.
Caesium137
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If you look closer, a few cut out the back of the boot too, something to do with pressure on heel/lower achilles, haglin heel or something I think.
The_Big_Woodowski
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Not so long back, but can’t recall seeing it for a while but I could be wrong. The fad of wearing electrician tape on your muscles appears to have died a death
redcarbob
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Made my eyes water looking at this and bringing back memories
Boro_Interlinked
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Back in the day when some players , then quite a few ,decided to put Vic's vapor rub on the chest of their shirts. I didn't have a clue so for about half a season I just thought it was the player getting snotty and clearing on his shirt. This was until I started seeing players coming out of the tunnel at start of games already vicced up. I couldn't understand it ,, I thought they were just having a good snotty blowout before kick-off and using their shirt, dirty gets Penny dropped for me a few weeks later when I actually saw a player on the sides applying some . Felt like a right sausage then , and had a good laugh at myself.
It's actually called kinesio tape. It's claimed to provide additional support to strained muscles but there's little medical research that actually proves it's effective. It still appears extremely popular with female tennis players (but not so much male tennis players, from what I can tell).
Does Kinesiology Tape Really Work?
It basically means you have a slight muscle strain but you're trying to play through it. This is perhaps not the wisest thing to do long term, which is perhaps why they've stopped using it for footballers.