What’s with all the footballers cutting massive holes in the back of their socks? It looks dreadful. Back in the day, they’d be taking an early shower for doing that to their kit.

You know, as a species we’re pretty smart: we put a man on the moon, we split the atom, and we’ve cloned dolly the sheep. Can we now put our collective horsepower together to design a sock that footballers don’t want to destroy? It just looks dreadful……