Nine-year-old blasts 'sexist' Sports Direct over labelling of football boots

A nine-year-old has blasted Sports Direct for labelling its football boots for boys and not girls.

Summer Hoofe is campaigning for the retailer and other sports stores to market such products as unisex. The Bolton schoolgirl says it's unfair that every time she shops for new boots they are marked as 'boys' and has launched her own campaign - starting with a TikTok video - to get retailers to reconsider.

Explaining why she decided to make a video for social media, Summer said: "It’s annoying that whenever I get new boots they always say boys on them. It’s not fair because lots of girls play football too, they shouldn’t say they are for boys, why are they boys' boots?

"It shouldn’t matter what colour or make they are, they should say unisex or just kids boots. Girls' feet are no different to boys' feet, feet are just feet aren’t they, they are all different shapes and boys' boots are no different to girls' boots, but you can’t even find any in Sports Direct that even say girls on them."

Summer, a pupil at Claypool Primary School in Horwich, plays for Wigan Junior Latics Blues boys team on a Saturday, Tiki Taka girls team on a Sunday and also plays for Bolton Futsal Club.

She lives with parents Charlene and Mark and is the youngest of six siblings - she has three brothers Blayden, 20, Toby 14, Ewan 12 and two sisters Rubie, 18, and Fearne, 17.

Charlene said: "She only started playing football two years ago and futsal four months ago, but she absolutely loves it and constantly has a ball at her feet. She’s following in her big sister Rubie's footsteps as she’s an avid footballer too.

"Summer is a massive Liverpool FC fan and she also loves Manchester United Women and Blackburn Rovers Women too."

She added: "Summer said