Life’s great isn’t it? You’ve had a couple of sherbet’s at the weekend, Euro 2008 is now underway (and with England not there, it doesn’t really matter that the German’s won their opening game) and today, just to start off the week in the best possible way, Footy Boots can bring you details of a brand new football boot that’s about to hit the market.

Reebok may only have two contracted players in Austria and Switzerland, Thierry Henry and Ike Casillas since you ask, but that hasn’t stopped the Reebok egg-heads from coming up with an ‘interesting’ looking football boot that will hit the shops in high summer.

It’s called the Reebok Sprintfit Lite Pro and comes in red, white and gold. Nice and understated!

The upper is constructed of Teijin microfiber that is lightweight, breathable and water resistant. There’s a HardLink for midfoot support, Reebok’s patented OrthoLite insock for comfort and a sockliner cover that reduces friction and moisture.

To complete the football boot, there’s a TPU (Thermoplastic Urethane) split outsole with integrated heel and bladed studs in forefoot and heel for traction on firm, natural surfaces.

And all this comes in at a weight on 9.2 ounces - until you stick ‘em on of course when it jumps up a tad, particularly if you resemble any members of the Footy Boots office. There’s a bloke in there who weighs over 15 stone and he’s the one we call Slim.

The Reebok Sprintfit Lite Pro FG comes in at about £75 and will be available to buy in late July.

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Footy Boots looks back at the Champions League final between Manchester United and Chelsea and highlights the highs and lows from a football boot perspective. Talk about a roller coaster ride for some of the biggest brand names in the business.

26th minute

It’s a great start for Nike as Manchester United’s leading scorer Cristiano Ronaldo gets number 42 of the season. His Mercurial SL boots aren’t directly involved though, but they do provide a great spring as the Portuguese international towers above Michael Essien at the back post to nod in Wes Brown’s excellent cross.

44th minute

Adidas hit back through Frank Lampard’s adiPURE’s. A speculative Chelsea shot takes a couple of ricochet’s and Chelsea’s leading scorer is in the right place again to side foot the ball past a despairing Edwin van der Sar.

77th minute

It’s nearly another Nike moment of magic as Didier Drogba, a peripheral figure for much of the game, curls a shot from the edge of the box with his Mercurial SL clad right foot that hits the post. Close call for United that.

Extra time

Once again it’s Lampard’s Adidas adiPURE’s to the fore as he swivels inside the box and whips in a left foot shot that hits the angle of post and bar with van der Sar no where.

Ten minutes later it’s a classic Reebok versus Umbro battle. Ryan Giggs, in his record breaking 759th United appearance and wearing his specially made Reebok KFS Sprintfit Pro’s stabs in a toe poke from close quarter’s only to see Umbro SX Valor wearer John Terry miraculously head off the line. What story that would have been for United’s only survivor from the starting line up of ‘99.

Oh dear. Nike won’t be too happy to see Drogba trudging off the pitch in his Mercurial SL’s with unique DROGBA11 stitching after seeing red for slapping Nemnaja Vidic. All that fuss over a throw in. And Chelsea lose a potential penalty taker in to the bargain.

Penalties

Can you believe it. Ronaldo misses his second CL spot kick in succession as Petr Cech, in his orange Adidas kit, saves. With Drogba off, it’s a double whammy for the boys from Oregon.

John Terry can win it for Chelsea but his standing foot gives way as he strikes Chelsea’s 5th spot kick and the ball hits the post. Nothing to do with his Umbro SX Valor boots, just a slippery surface.

Reebok can do no wrong as Giggs steps forward to calmly side foot home in his SprintFit’s.

And that’s it. United win the trophy as Chelsea sub Nicolas Anelka’s penalty via his Puma v1.08’s is kept out by van der Sar.

A great game, fantastic entertainment for the neutral, sorrow for Chelsea and their tearful captain but a second Champions League success for Sir Alex. Same again next year please.

As Ryan Giggs prepares to beat Bobby Charlton’s appearance record for Manchester United, at the Champions League final against Chelsea in Moscow next Wednesday, Reebok have produced a special pair of boots for the occasion.

The Reebok KFS Sprintfit Pro II are inscribed with Moscow 2008 and have the number 759 embroidered on their tongues. Only one pair has been made and no more will be produced.

The Reebok boot features their unique Kinetic Fit System (KFS) for greater support, comfort and flexibility in critical areas of the foot.

The upper is made from kangaroo leather and there’s an integrated heal counter for stability and protection.

Giggs has been with Reebok since he started his professional career 17 years ago. Unbelievably, he’s been with Manchester United a staggering 21 years after signing schoolboy forms as a 14 year old.

He equalled Charlton’s record of 758 appearances in the final league game of the season which saw United take the Premier League title ahead of Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool.

Ryan Giggs helped Manchester United reclaim the Premier League trophy. Having won 10 title medals in his illustrious career, should he also get the accolade as the best player the Premier League has ever seen?

It was the 29th November 1987, when Alex Ferguson made one of the best signings of his managerial career. Ferguson signed a 14 year old boy onto the Manchester United’s books. On the 9th July 1990, Ryan Giggs was given a Manchester United contract - almost 18 years ago.

Ryan Giggs made his first team début for Manchester United against Everton, on the 2nd March 1991. That was 758 games ago, now Ryan Giggs has equalled Bobby Charlton’s appearance record for the club and may well surpass it when Manchester United face Chelsea in the Champions League final in Moscow next week.

The Greatest

When people think about the best player to grace the Premier League, a few names always crop up; Cantona, Henry, Zola, Bergkamp, Shearer, Cech, Adams and there are others, but few can dispute that Giggs is amongst the list.

Honours

Looking at his unrivalled war chest of honours (right hand side), nobody comes close to the Welsh Wizard, but its not just his medals that make Giggs the best the Premier League has seen…..

Talent

Giggs started his career as a left winger. His pace, control, balance and skill frightened full backs all over the world. It drew comparisons with another footballing legend, George Best and he was awarded the U-21 European Footballer of the Year.

Aged 17 he became the youngest player to represent Wales internationally. He went on to gain 64 caps before retiring from international football in 2007.

Consistency

Giggs has maintained his form throughout his career at Manchester United, at the top level of football, never making fewer than 30 appearances in a season. A formidable record considering the competition for places and the standard of the game he has played.

Loyalty

In an age where moving clubs every few years is so commonplace, it’s rare to see a player stay at a club as long as Giggs has. He could have earned millions in transfer fee’s over the years, instead he focused on his football.

Off the Field

Giggs is a great role model for children. He now refrains from over publicising himself, something he was perhaps guilty of when he first came on the scene. Even his football boot sponsor has been consistent, Giggs has been with Reebok for several years now and currently wears the Reebok SprintFit football boots.

Versatility

Of late Giggs has demonstrated that he is not a one trick pony. As the years have crept up on him, he has had to adapt his game as he has lost a little of his pace.

Giggs started out as a pacey winger, before adapting to play as a central striker and more recently he has been used as a central midfielder.

Ryan Giggs

Few can contest the ability of Ryan Giggs, he’s performed at the very top level for almost two decades and his attitude has been exemplary. Look at the all round player and person Ryan Giggs is, he’s the greatest the Premier League has ever seen.758

The Footy Boots video boot reports have certainly caused a stir since Perry Groves launched his investigations two weeks ago.

Ron from Scotland contacted us to say “Congrats on getting Perry Groves to work for Footy Boots - he’s a legend.” John and Barry emailed from an army base overseas to say simply “we love Perry” whilst Lucio from London wrote “it doesn’t matter what Perry Groves wears on his feet - the man is a genius.” Mind you, that email was written in crayon.

This week, after putting the Umbro SX Valor and Nomis Glove through their paces, Perry switches his attention to the Reebok SprintFit.

As it happens, these football boots were in the news recently as Barcelona striker Thierry Henry was due to wear the brand new version of the Reebok SprintFit Pro for the first time in last weekend’s 0 - 0 draw with Espanyol. Due to a fever, Henry didn’t feature, but they just might get a run out this evening against Manchester United in the Champions League semi final.

Henry said ““The Sprintfit football boot just keeps on getting better and better. What I love about this football boot is it allows me to play my natural game, it’s like an extension of me.”

As for the manufacturer, they say that the football boot delivers an unbeatably snug fit thanks to Reebok’s Kinetic Fit System technology. An exquisitely soft K-Skin leather upper aids both flexibility and ventilation, creating a comfortable environment for the foot during play.

So Henry likes them as do Reebok. But importantly, what did Perry make of them? Find out just how highly the former Arsenal player rated them right here.

Having secured the services of Perry Groves amongst some intense competition from a number of other football web sites including www.didntheusedtobeaginger.com and the ever poular and respected www.groveswasbetterthanronaldinho.co.uk, Perry has been on the training ground for his first Footy Boots video boot report.

Over the course of the next few weeks, the former Arsenal star and now Sky Sports pundit, will be testing various football boots including the SprintFit, AdiPure, Tiempo Legend II, V1.08, and Nomis Glove.

Umbro SX Valor

This week, the 1987 League Cup winner has been trialling the Umbro SX Valor, as worn by Chelsea and England’s John Terry.

Our Perry might not be at his ’spring chicken’ best any more (in fact it’s more like Kentucky Fried Chicken these days) but his football brain is still as sharp as ever. Find out what he made of the SX Valor by watching here.

Thierry Henry features in Reebok’s latest viral video Your Move.

Reebok have created a new viral video entitled ‘Your Move’, which features their leading football boot endorser Thierry Henry.

The video begins with Thierry Henry marking out a white box on a road. Following Thierry, there are other people outlining similar boxes in a variety of situations. It soon becomes apparent that these boxes have been created to showcase a multitude of sporting skills.

Whilst Thierry features in the video, he’s not showcasing much of his own talent beyond balancing the ball on his head, although their is a freestyle footballer juggling with the ball as he sits on the ground.

The video ends with Thierry offering you to take the square, for ‘Your Move’.

See the video in the Football Boots Video section.

Reebok Sprintfit football boot wearers Iker Casillas and Thierry Henry have helped to launch Reebok’s ‘Two people in Everyone’ campaign.

The football boot brand’s marketing campaign compares and contrasts the private sides of the Real Madrid goalie and the Barcelona striker with their more recognisable ‘on duty’ personalities.

The Reebok Sprintfit duo unveiled a series of stunning shadow sculptures that depict the opposing on and off-field personas of the world’s leading sport and entertainment icons.

Thierry Henry’s sculpture includes basketball materials to represent his favourite sport outside of football. Iker Casillas’s sculpture includes a copy of the romantic British comedy hit ‘Notting Hill’ - Iker’s favourite film. Other notable objects used in the sculptures include sushi, classic novels, anti-racism literature, hawaiian shirts and photographs of Scarlett Johannson.

Real Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillas said: “The sculpture is great. It provides a good insight into my life away from the football pitch. The sculptors have done an excellent job - I can’t believe they’ve managed to create a perfect shadow image of me from all of those different objects. ”

Barcelona striker Thierry Henry added: “The Two People in Everyone campaign shows that you can’t always judge sports people by the way you see them when they’re in action. It’s great to get the opportunity to show another side of our personalities to people.”

Reebok has announced the launch of its new colourway Sprintfit football boot.

The Black and Tetra Blue colour way, which Footy Boots exclusively revealed in May, will be available for purchase in September 2007.

Football boot brand Reebok unveiled the Sprintfit football boot as the lightest, most comfortable football boot they’ve ever made. Rather than introducing needless gimmicks, the Sprintfit favours simple, yet intelligent design features. It is designed to have everything a modern player needs and nothing they don’t.

The Sprintfit football boot is currently worn by Thierry Henry, Andriy Shevchenko, Iker Casillas and Ryan Giggs.

Available: September 2007

Price: £125

Click here for more information on the Reebok Sprintfit

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With the transfer window remaining in full swing, clubs still trying to get in their last minute buys before the season begins on Saturday, Footy-Boots.com takes a look at the summer investments of the Premiership’s ‘top 5′ clubs.

Owen Hargreaves (Man Utd) has shipped his Adidas +Predator Absolute boots from Munich to Manchester (£17 million) to join fellow new boys Nani (Nike Mercurial Vapor III) and Anderson (Adidas +Predator Absolute) at Old Trafford. He will be hoping to create a solid midfield partnership in the Manchester United engine room with fellow England international Michael Carrick (Puma V-Konstrukt II). Are Hargreaves and Carrick too alike? Will they be able to play alongside each other?

FB Rating 3.5/5

Florent Malouda (Chelsea - Nike Total 90 Laser). The Fulham Road club fought off competition from Liverpool to sign up pacy winger and France’s footballer of the year, Florent Malouda. Malouda has already shown his huge talent, holding off England international Rio Ferdinand, to notch against Manchester United in the Community Shield. He will be hoping that his Nike T90 Laser’s can help supply the ammunition to the blues striker force Didier Drogba (Nike Mercurial Vapor III Cactus), Andrei Shevchenko (Reebok Sprintfit), and fellow Chelsea new boy, Claudio Pizarro (Adidas +Predator Absolute), and reclaim the Premiership title from their north west rivals. Malouda looks a quality signing, and is sure too be a fine replacement should Arjen Robben (Adidas +F50 Tunit 2) leave the club.

FB Rating 4.5/5

Fernando Torres (Liverpool - Nike Total 90 Laser). ‘El Nino’ (the Kid) progressed through Atletico Madrid’s youth system and became one of Europe’s most sought after strikers following an impressive showing in the 2006 World Cup in Germany. Not renowned for his prolific goal scoring, he will be hoping fellow new boy Ryan Babel (Nike Mercurial Vapor III) can create the chances for him to find the net with his Nike T90 Laser’s; thus finally replacing Michael Owen (Umbro X Boot III) as Liverpool’s twenty goal a season striker.

FB Rating 3.8/5

Eduardo da Silva (Arsenal - Nike Mercurial Vapor III). Brazilian born Croatia striker Da Silva knows that he and fellow attackers Robin Van Persie (Adidas +Predator Absolute) and Emmanuel Adebayor (Adidas +F50 Tunit 2) have a difficult task in replacing the prolific Thierry Henry (Reebok Sprintfit). The former Dinamo Zagreb man has already been described as a ‘great asset’ by Gunners boss Arsene Wenger, and began to repay his faith by scoring on his Arsenal debut against Lazio in the recent Amsterdam tournament. Only time will tell if he can replace Henry.

FB Rating 3.7/5

Gareth Bale (Spurs). Exciting 18 year old Welsh international and Adidas +F50 Tunit 2 wearer Gareth Bale has swapped the south coast for London joining Spurs crop of youthful team for an upfront payment of £5 million, which could raise to £10 million on appearances. Bale, who is renowned for his precise free kicks, will be hoping to pick out fellow new boy, Darren Bent, and his Nike Mercurial Vapor III’s. Bale, at 18, looks to have an extremely bright future ahead of him.

FB Rating 4.2/5

Do you think the Premiership’s top 5 have spent wisely? Who else would you like to see your team bring in before the transfer window closes at the end of the month?

Edwin van der Sar saves three penalties, as Manchester United beat Chelsea in the Community Shield.

In a physical game at the ‘New Wembley’, Manchester United came up trumps in a penalty shoot out, after the game was drawn 1-1 in normal playing time.

Veteran Ryan Giggs, wearing Reebok Sprintfit’s opened the scoring for Manchester United on 35, scoring his first goal at Wembley. But Chelsea were level again, shortly before half time when Florent Malouda, wearing Total 90 Laser’s, took Ashley Cole’s pass and fired home at an angle.

The game was played with a physical edge, and both teams had chances to score in the second half. Shaun Wright-Phillips was getting a lot of the ball for Chelsea, but his final ball was often lacking.

The game went to penalties and whilst United fired all their penalties home, Van Der Sar didn’t let one past his beanpole frame, saving from Claudio Pizarro, Frank Lampard and Shaun Wright Phillips.

In our preview we picked out the challenge between Cristiano Ronaldo and Ashley Cole. Despite United winning the game, Man of the Match went to Ashley Cole, so perhaps Cole can give Ronnie a wink on his way out of Wembley.

New Reebok Integrity Football Boots for 2007 Season

Just when we thought Reebok had run out of ideas they surprise us with the release of images of the new Reebok Integrity 07 Pro football boots! The limited details which we have at Footy Boots show that new football boots will be available in black/silver/gold or white/tetra/silver colourways, SG or MS (multi-studded) formats, from 1st August 2007, around the £80 mark.

The new Reebok Integrity 07 football boots are an update to the classic Integrity range, and are made of the highest grade soft ‘k’ leather which gives an instant second skin comfort, perfect ball feel and touch.

Reebok Integrity 07 Pro Black Football Boots

Reebok Integrity 07 Pro White Football Boots

Verdict: Footy-Boots HQ is already buzzing at the thought of getting our sticky hands on a pair of the new black Reebok Integrity 07 football boots (Size 10 - hint hint!). It has the looks and appeal with its classic styling and cutting edge technology of becoming the star attraction for the new season!

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Henry Shows Off His New Kit and New Reebok Sprintfits

Ex-arsenal striker Thierry Henry has been unveiled this week in his new Barcelona shirt, having taken the number 14, made famous by Johann Cruyff. Thierry Henry moved to his new Spanish club in a cut price £16million deal in a move that had been speculated on all season, but once confirmed was still a shock to Arsenal fans, who face the prospect of their club going into melt-down, especially if manager Arsene Wenger joins the exodus. Henry took the opportunity to showcase his new football boots for the first time, the Reebok Sprintfits.

Footy-Boots especially enjoyed the way as Thierry Henry was making his way onto the Barcelona pitch for the first time in front of the world’s waiting media, he stopped to tie his white Reebok Sprintfits laces, giving everyone a great view of his new football boots, and probably earning himself a few extra Euros from his sponsors, Reebok, who would have loved the exposure from that simple move! Henry saluted the assembled 20,000 Barca fans, then gave a quick demonstration of a few tricks and moves, during a carefully staged exercise.

Watch the video, and see Thierry Henry in his new football boots here.

See more on the Reebok Sprintfit football boots.

Football Boots Videos Keep On Coming…

Footy Boots is happy to round off another packed week by bringing you an EXCLUSIVE video! Yes it is another of our Video Panel of Legends talking about football boots. This section cuts straight to the chase, with the ex-pro’s getting their eager hands on some Adidas Tunit Titan Metallic football boots, and Thierry Henry’s new football boots, the Reebok Sprintfits. See what they had to say about these offerings - it will suprise you what their reactions were!

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