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... Read review

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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... Read review

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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... Read review

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

...I’m not exactly a style guru. You’re more likely to find me in some backstreet shop buying something cheap-and-cheerful than shelling out on trendy clothes from big names. But in this instance some new trousers were desperately in order, and as my mum had kindly volunteered to pay, what had I to lose? So I ventured into Sports Soccer. This op is based on my experience today with the Milton Keynes branch. Others may be different, although frankly I rather doubt it. First impressions are important, and Sports Soccer certainly impresses. My local shopping centre features not one but TWO Sports Soccer stores – I plumped for the bigger one. The store advertises its presence with huge lit-up signs across its vast shop front, and baskets of footballs and other goods placed enticingly near the entrance. Having far too many footballs already... Read review

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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... Read review

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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... Read review

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Advantages: Enjoyment, potential to make a profit.
Disadvantages: Risk of losing money.

...BETTING ON SPORT : SOCCER By Keith Wymer Betting on sport, is now very big business and, thanks to the internet, increasingly world-wide. Investors range from people who wager once or twice a year (eg on the Derby and/or Grand National) to those who bet every hour of the day (and, more recently, night). Betting is great fun but anyone starting should be aware of the risks - and not bet more than they can comfortably afford to lose. More punters lose than win. But a significant number make a living from betting: this requires a professional approach, severe discipline and, like any other successful business, very hard work. This article assumes no prior knowledge of betting. It gives simple explanations for beginners and experienced gamblers are likely to find the content tedious. Correct Score Betting The sphere... Read review

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Advantages: Fair prices
Disadvantages: Store layout, poor staff training

...This is the story of an attempt to buy a pair of Rugby boots. First stop, the Meadowhall shopping mall in Sheffield. Lots of sports shops to choose from, so you would think this would be an easy task. Sports Soccer is a shop which has competitive prices although the staff consists mainly of youngsters who have yet to learn basic social skills. The numbers of times that I have had to listen through their boring conversations with each other about their private lives. Usually, in between, they will tell me the total price of the items but they rarely use the words "please" or "thank you". It appears that chewing gum is part of the requirements of the job. However on the basis of value for money this was our first stop. They had a tiny selection and only one type in the correct size. Unlucky, I thought. Never mind let us move on... Read review

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Advantages: it's comical and is about football
Disadvantages: it's only on once a week

...funny. i advice you to watch soccer am on saturday mornings if you are a football fan and have sky sports 1... Read review

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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... Read review

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