From preventing injury to flagging offsides: What will football boots look like in 20 years’ time?

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Football boots have come a long way since Alan Ball debuted a gleaming pair of white Hummels while captaining Everton to a 2-1 win over Chelsea in the 1970 Charity Shield. 

That momentous occasion was ironically something of a white lie for the forward-thinking German company; the 1966 World Cup-winning midfielder was actually wearing a pair of adidas boots hastily whitewashed and camouflaged with Hummel chevrons prior to the game. 

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