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

...with their purchases. To me there is nothing in their selection that I like currently, although one good thing I can say about this area of the shop is that they seem to keep this side of the store well staffed. There's usually always someone there to serve you, but with the trainers being more expensive than the clothes I'm not surprised that they want to get your business more on that side of the store. Having said that, the trainers are still quite cheap. Upstairs is the more specified area, and it's generally well organised, although except for the till staff there is no one up there. It offers replica football tops, sporting equiptment, golf clubs, etc. Also the womens range is upstairs, even putting on fluffy boots that were all the rage when I last went up there looking around for some reason. Still don't expect anything upstairs to...

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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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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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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A shop not to buy trainers or football boots from

Advantages: Cheap, Big selection and ranges
Disadvantages: Tests Patience, Staff not helpful

...A few months ago I asked in-store whether Sports Soccer had any jobs and they said no we have too much staff on at the moment..........really? are you sure about that? so why does it take me an hour just to find someone to ask for size 10 football boot? and then they don't come back for half an hour? and then they come back eventually to tell me they don't have them in my size. Even if you get a pair you will have to lace them up youself as the staff just disappear. I think soccer sports is great for price, tracksuit bottoms, joggers and sportswear. However if you buying trainers or football boots then you need a lot of patience. However it is better for choice that it's competitors JJB so you will have to wait unless you feel comfortable buying boots or trainers over the internet not knowing whether they fit or not. Sports...

91jcollier 14.08.2009 · Read review
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Island of Sporting Desire

Advantages: Three or four really great sporting games
Disadvantages: The need to 'calibrate' Wii Remote

...Let the games Begin... As a game which came free with the Wii console, 'Wii Sports' had little to prove - a title designed to show off the ingenious controls of the new machine, which at times meant that it felt like a bit of a glorified tech-demo. The sequel 'Wii Sports Resort' is tied in with the release of MotionPlus - the little white box that plugs into the bottom of the Wii controller, offering much more accuracy and finesse of controls - but does the game make the most of the new technology, or is it a missed opportunity? Set on the tropical island of 'Wuhu', Sports Resort allows you to compete in twelve different sporting disciplines, each one designed to push your skill and co-ordination to the max. In this review, I'll take a look at each of the sports, whilst briefly explaining and summarising my feelings towards them...

JOE.B 13.11.2009 (14.11.2009) · Read review
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  Wii should go to the Sports Resort!...

Advantages: Good for all the family, Great fun, Entertaining, Something to do on a rainy day
Disadvantages: Expensive

...Wii Sports Resort One special day last year, I woke up unusually early - it was even still dark outside. I just couldn?t wait to get downstairs and go into the living room, but I couldn?t - not just yet anyway. It?s something we always do in my family, we must all go downstairs at the same time, together. Not every morning! Just on this particular special day, so I called my mum and dad - my two younger sisters were already up, practically buzzing with excitement at the top of the stairs - and together we all walked, or rather sprinted into the living room. That special day of course, was Christmas day! Woohay! So, you?re probably wondering I wanted to tell you about this, aren?t you? Well, keep reading and you?ll find out? I love surprises, don?t you? Not knowing that something?s going to happen and then it does (as long...

Ruby.xo 04.08.2009 (07.08.2009) · Read review
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