Sports Soccer / sportsworld

Advantages: It's cheap
Disadvantages: Everything else

...Am I the only person not to be taken in by this company? I cannot deny that it is cheap - that goes without saying, but isn't there more to retail than that? If I just wanted cheap I would never leave home. Sometimes I want advice, sometimes I want service, sometimes I want quality and if I am shopping I most certainly want it to be a good experience. I love sport, I love branded clothing and so I have visited Sports Son numerous occasions. Mainly because I keep forgetting how bad the experience was last time! What is the experience? You go in the store - if you can get in for all the crappy umbrellas and buckets full of socks in the entrance. You can't move between the mountains of stock piled high left right and centre, 99% of which is awful Donnay, Slazenger, Lonsdale or whatever other brand owner Mike Ashley has bought...

dickyj 21.03.2007 · Read review
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Sport & Soccer

Advantages: cheap, brand named sportswear
Disadvantages: usually very busy & crowded

...Sport & Soccer is a great shop if you want to buy branded sportswear at a reasonable price. They sell a huge variety of tops, jumpers, tracksuit bottoms, trainers, footballs, bags, golf equipment, roller blades, hats, ski boots, and pretty much any other kind of sportswear in between. All of their goods are BRAND NEW and the latest (as in current style/current football strips/England shirts/trainers). They seem to buy in bulk, so they can offer very competitive prices, and as such, their prices are significantly less than in other sports shops such as JJB. Quite a large part of their stock consists of Donnay, or Umbro. And it is these makes that you can pick up really cheaply. T-Shirts for under £10 for men and women, and this range is especially good for young kids, as they are less style-conscious! I recently picked up...

charkai 31.07.2005 · Read review
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Sports Waste

Advantages: Cheap prices and large stores
Disadvantages: Generally ugly clothes

...It's interesting to find what's being built right under your nose, and whilst it has been open for quite some time now when a massive new Sports World (formerly known as Sports Soccer) opened in a new shopping park just outside of the usual shopping area in Cambridge, I was obliged to find out what it's like. This now not very newish Sports World isn't the only one Cambridge has to offer though, as there is also one in the centre of town - that's not too shabby in size either. What exactly do these shops have to offer? Well I'll be happy to let you know. With the arrival of the new Sports World came an influx of a brand I had hardly ever heard of before, Lonsdale. Hmm.. what's that I thought. It didn't look very nice but people seemed to be picking up new outfits of it by the bucketful from somewhere. I wondered where, and not to be...

Nathan_Innit 22.03.2007 · Read review
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Sport but not just soccer

Advantages: Price
Disadvantages: Layout

...This is just one of those shops which really really needs to change it's name. I first came across the place when I moved to Cardiff a few years ago, and I was looking for a new swimming costume. In Cardiff, Sports Soccer is situated just opposite the Capitol arcade, but if you're not from the area, you can usually find a branch of sports soccer in most relatively large towns. Anyway, back to my search for a swimming costume. Well, I'm afraid to say, that I took one look at Sports Soccer, presumed it was a sports shop catering for football equipment, and walked straight past. It wasn't until serveral months later, when I was out shopping with my boyfriend in one of Cardiff's frequent downpours, that he dragged me soggie, kicking and screaming into this "awful football shop!". Well, much to my surprise and delight, the first thing...

NATI 16.03.2001 · Read review
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Sensible World Of Soccer

Advantages: Addictive and rewarding
Disadvantages: Commentry

...manager of your chosen nationality and guide them to world domination!!!!!!!!! Thanks for reading and enjoy the game... Whoever says this game is rubbish either doesnt like football or doesnt like a challenge!!!...

Flushyou888 18.12.2007 · Read review
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THE ONE STOP SPORT SHOP

Advantages: good quality across the range, many top names at good prices
Disadvantages: too many queues, staff are largely morons

...Sport Soccer now seems to have branches all over the place, though I’d suspect it is still firmly centred around the Home Counties. Many of their branches that I frequent have been undergoing a refit and enlargement, so I’d have to guess the business was thriving. So that nicely brings me to ‘the business’. This chain of Sports stores started life as Sport & Ski. Trading in Shopping Malls and stocking winter gear for the skier, in addition to general sports gear like T-Shirts, Polos, Sweats and Jackets. Also, there were always racks of trainers, football boots etc for both Adults and Children. This brought them a niche market. It was a shop you could kit little Johnny out for his new school with some respectable labels like Umbro,. Adidas and the now ubiquitous Donnay. While the teenagers and more label...

flashpointz 18.07.2001 · Read review
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Dunno about Soccer, I wanted to Sock Her

Advantages: Wide range of stock, large stores
Disadvantages: Staff have social skills comparable to a gerbil

...gangsta rap ?music? !) Actually virtually all of the stock was some shade of blue, but I don?t think this is a reflection on Sports Soccer ? the whole world has gone blue! Anyway .. after having located a couple of pairs of trousers, I inquisitively went downstairs. The downstairs, branded ?Soccer World?, has a truly sumptuous assortment of trainers, football boots and sporting gear. This is the biggest collection of sporting footwear I?ve ever seen in one place. Row upon row of top-make trainers, well laid out with prices a little extortionate but clearly displayed! The football boot section was heaven for my brother. Getting bored of him discussing the merits of boot X over boot Y, I went to explore the rest of the floor. The impression I got was that, when pronouncing the name of the store, the emphasis should be on ?soccer? rather...

mattwood 10.04.2003 · Read review
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A must for sports wear fanatics

Advantages: affordable sportswear, massive selection
Disadvantages: not particularly well labelled

...Harlow now proudly boasts a new sports wear shop in the name of Sports Soccer. It is located alongside the UGC cinema in the DIY industrial shopping area at Templefields. I visited it for the first time yesterday and was very impressed. Although Harlow already has many sports wear shops located in the town centre, Sports Soccer offers a much wider range of clothing and accessories but at mega discounted prices. Being that this shop occupies an industrial unit it boasts a large shop floor with a first floor to it too. The layout is not particularly well laid out nor labelled in anyway, but to be honest at those prices I didn't mind that bit as I hunted around everything in my own orderly fashion sniffing out the bits that I liked best. The cheapest sports brand that they offer is Donnay International, they also offer...

GraingerN 27.02.2001 · Read review
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INSIDE INFORMATION ABOUT SPORTS SOCCER

Advantages: CHEAP, AND A FUN PLACE TO WORK
Disadvantages: POOR PAY, MANAGERS DONT CARE ABOUT STAFF JUST PROFIT

...I am a sports soccer employee and I wholly agree with your views of the shop 100%. I agree that the shop layout is very crampt, and the number of injuries that I have witnessed over the last few months that I have worked there where people have walked into stands and cut them selves etc. It is a serious health and safety problem. The part time staff (like me) who work 10 hour shifts on weekends and after school get treated like crap by full time workers. We are not thick, dumb people, we get paid £30 for 10 hour shifts and £15 for 5 hour shifts with only 15min break for 5 hour shifts and 1 hour for the 10 hour shifts. This makes us tired, so we do get annoyed when people ask for the best selling stuff to be brought down from the top shelves. When they should be in easy reach of the customer anyways. Another thing, You may have...

realeminem 21.04.2003 · Read review
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Best for World Football

Advantages: great range of coverage
Disadvantages: A little Anoracky

...I enjoy following football from all over the world and it has always frustrated me that non-European leagues and internationals have had, at most, minimal coverage in the British media. The coverage that does exist, such as Sky Sports ‘Futball Mundial, is hopelessly truncated and often outdated. The antidote to this is to buy World Soccer, a monthly magazine costing £2.60. Inside you will find all the statistics from every national league and cup competition in the world as well as international games, each national league is analysed in detail. You will also find all the transfer news and managerial comings and goings. There are profiles of teams ranging from Obilic of Yugoslavia to our own tractor boys of Ipswich, as well as interesting features on players from all over the world. I have to say that because...

aprose 09.02.2001 (03.02.2001) · Read review
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