To ask you how you clean football boots

[Polkapjs]

Facebook tells me I need a boot buddy. Do I? And are there different ways for wet mud and dry mud? I’ve just used about 15 baby wipes and soaked myself at the outside rap. There must be a better way...

Leaving them to dry and then whacking them on the ground gets all the mud off ds’s. Can’t say I could be bothered with anything that required more effort!

Wait until the mud has completely dried/caked in a few days.

Then take them outside and smack the studs against a wall until it all drops off. Use one baby wipe to wipe any remaining visible dust off the tops.

Washing machine

Run them under the outside tap, use a cloth with a bit of washing up liquid on the uppers, picking out any awkward bits out of the studs with a knife. I do it as soon as we get home so the mud doesn’t get chance to dry solid. Takes two minutes max.

Tried a Boot Buddy, didn’t rate it.

Doesn't all that mud clog up the washing machine Stealth? If not, I'm doing it.

Broke my washing machine with muddy sports kit... be warned

I don't.

Have I been going wrong all these years?

If the owner wants them clean the owner can learn how...

We’ve got a boot scraper. Scrap on those before coming in. Usually tackles the worst.

Not in a decade of three boys doing sports involving studs have I cleaned a pair of boots .

I LOVE banging them together when the mud is dried though, at the front door so it echoes round the village .

Lol temporary the owner is 6. My nephews were coming home with muddy boots at 4. Should they have learned to clean them? You can show them and they can have a go but under 9s probably can't clean them throughly enough and this leads to minging smelly boots and shortens their usage

We have a boot buddy, worth every penny.

I use a dishwashing brush and a bowl of soapy water.

In winter I put Vaseline on before I play. It keeps the leather soft and means the mud doesn't stick.

I let them dry off then use a normal long handled dish washing brush (kept for boots!) & either clean them at the outside tap or in a bowl if it's bad weather etc! Then they go in the airing cupboard.

Ds is now 8 & he's started doing them himself with a bit of guidance. So far so good!

Off to google boot buddy!

JustPurple do you mean vaseline just around the leather/plastic join, or all over the leather? Thanks.

Boot buddy just arrived. Tackled 2 weeks worth of mud and dried on shite. It worked really well, I'm happy with it. Not sure DH is happy. I've told him to clean them as the boots come off. That's not his style, when tomorrow still exists he'll keep putting the job off. And then use them again without cleaning. Our DS will never make it as a pro with dirty boots!