Manly shoes
While I’m on the theme of football, we play on astro turf and the surface can get pretty slippery especially in the Winter or when it’s been raining. Therefore, I prefer wearing astro trainers to normal ones so I don’t end up flat on my backside.
I had a bit of a discussion with the salesman in a well-known sports shop a few months ago when I asked if they had any women’s astro trainers and he told me I’d need to go to a specialist hockey shop. “Is that because girls don’t play football?”, I asked.
It turns out that most of the main high street sports shops don’t cater for women who don’t want to wear manly astro trainers. I’m not saying I want pink ones with bows on but if they can make normal trainers for women, why can’t they make astros?
I climbed up on my horse this weekend after another fruitless search in the shops and started to compose an email to the big sports brands asking why they don’t make them.
It’s a good job I decided to do some basic online searches before I got too cross because I came across a really clever little tool on the Nike website where you can design your own shoes.
They’re a bit out of my budget at the moment, but next time I need some I’ll definitely save up and get some of these. Hooray for online shopping!
