Firey_Dragon
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Boots raise every player's game about equally. They don't decrease the gap between good and bad players, just improve the overall spectacle. But gloves do artificially decrease this gap. Players with good handling skills gain very little by wearing them, but a "feet for hands" bloke gains a lot. This is unfair.
If you've got hands for feet, gloves will do little to fix that. It simply takes the slipperiness of a ball out of the equation.
Rosin, you know that glue they spray on every players hands before a game, is more tacky than any glove on the market. Silicon just makes water a non-factor.
But LOL @ thinking boots raise the level of every players game equally, if that were the case, there wouldn't be so much research put into boot performance by each individual manufacturer. When blades were first released, people were trying to ban them because they gave much better grip over standard stud configurations.