Holes in football socks, anyone know why?

[red_harrington]

The holes are to remove excess weight.

With the law of diminishing returns, those extra few grams could make all the difference.

 

[Transitarmy]

I was at my grandsons under 9 game and one of the kids had the slots in the back of his socks,he had legs like matchsticks. Also had a pony tail. I despair.

 

[newusername]

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.

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Interesting, could see the point in cutting down the size of the heal tab to reduce pressure on the achilles tendon but a hole in the heal box seems counter productive, the foot would move further back & the heal tab put more pressure on the tendon.

 

[Caesium137]

Interesting, could see the point in cutting down the size of the heal tab to reduce pressure on the achilles tendon but a hole in the heal box seems counter productive, the foot would move further back & the heal tab put more pressure on the tendon.

Haglund’s Deformity: Causes, Symptoms & Treatment

Haglund’s deformity is a bony growth on your heel bone where your Achilles tendon attaches. Causes include wearing shoes that are too tight or overusing your heel.

my.clevelandclinic.org

Have a look, like a bony spur on the heel below where the achilles attaches.

 

[18MFC76]

It was largely down to these bar$t@rds when I was a young-un

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My god they hurt when they swung back onto your shin .

 

[Nzedred]

Haglund’s Deformity: Causes, Symptoms & Treatment

Haglund’s deformity is a bony growth on your heel bone where your Achilles tendon attaches. Causes include wearing shoes that are too tight or overusing your heel.

my.clevelandclinic.org

Have a look, like a bony spur on the heel below where the achilles attaches.

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I had an op to remove one of these last year, they are very painful!

 

[BorosMyHome]

I can 100% clarify that players are requesting the foot to be cut from socks now due to having more grip in the boot. Wearing the football sock makes the foot slip inside the boot more due to the fabric. There's a vid on YouTube I was watching last week with the kitmen from Swansea where they discussed this.

 

[El Guapo]

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.

Ditto

 

[Fattyfoggon]

Flip first thing I thought of when noticed this was do they wash the socks and re-use them or have they just ruined a good pair of socks, it actually annoys me lol!

 

[Druss_The_Legend]

You've spent too many nights in Fat Cats.

I only ever went in there once when I was 18. I got started on by a bloke who had a bit of a reputation and the lad I was with got told to leave the place of he was going down the stairs. That was the good old days