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They were admonished for, variously, disorganisation, unpunctuality, wearing the wrong boots, buying unsatisfactory bananas and failing to think properly as scientists.
James Milner – 7 Began with the wrong boots for the pitch, and after a couple of slips and a change of footwear fizzed a shot fractionally wide.
"He always makes the mistake of using the wrong boots.
Chan suffered minor injuries attempting stunts in the film, having been kicked in the chest by a stuntman wearing the wrong boots and fallen off a quad bike, while attempting to perform a wheelie.
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Military boots hit the ground in the flood-hit village of Wraysbury on Tuesday, but it quickly transpired they were the wrong kind of boots.
Just as I once delighted in overhearing an American fashion journalist in Paris go nuclear down the phone at her poor assistant in New York for shipping over the wrong Balenciaga ankle boots, so I was pleased to eavesdrop on one particular English tabloid sports writer scream down his phone at his desk assistant in London to find a direct flight to Recife "or I'll go fucking ballistic".
This geezer had evidently packed the wrong pair of boots.
But they will not do for your purposes, and the questions you ask about them are the wrong ones to boot.
(American Sniper is similarly set in motion by acts of terrorism, but quickly devolves into a orgiastically pornographic revenge fantasy, waged against the wrong enemy to boot).
How the human race managed to keep going when all they had to protect them from the elements was a bearskin is quite beyond me: if they were anything like my colleagues they'd have all refused point blank to go out catching woolly mammoths on the grounds that they were wearing the wrong kind of furry boots.
Boots manufacturers like to make it seem like their latest designs will turn even the most average pub-side clogger into Messi or Ronaldo, but rather than having this 'Jimmy Grimble' effect, the wrong pair of soccer boots could impair performance, and even lead to injury.
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