You can laugh, when I started playing at age 10 football boots for little kids still had toecaps. I got my first proper boots when I went up to secondary school. 'Modern' boots were for the famous players, new fangled lightweight boots worn by fancy dans from Italy and such like, hence they were called 'Continental'boots and I so desperately wanted a pair. The thing with toe cap boots when you are starting out, you could kick it further and toe poking was the thing, we all had to learn what an instep was later on.