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It wasnt that long ago that seeing a player wearing a pair of white football boots was something of a rarity.

Indeed, the names of Alan Gladys Hinton and Alan Ball are still talked about today after they famously donned white boots over 30 years ago. Take a look at Hintons entry in Wikipedia and the second sentence reads: He famously wore white boots. Bearing in mind that he had a 17 year long career and played for England three times, scoring once, that pretty much sums up the impact his footwear had at the time.

But now, white football boots seem to be all the rage certainly if you check out the choices of the England team that played Slovenia at the weekend.

Of course, over recent months, England have always had a few players for whom white football boots were the norm. Captain John Terry has worn the England Speciali and the Speciali in White / Red. Frank, Frank Lampard is rarely seen without his trusty pair of adidas adiPure II Romes and Glen Johnson, Lottos biggest name player in the UK, is a familiar sight in his White / Black / Red Zhero Leggenda Tres.

Now, perhaps its something to do with the all white, Umbro kit but Terry, Lampard and Johnson were joined at Wembley by a whole clutch of their team-mates who decided that white was right.

Shaun Wright-Phillips took to the field wearing a pair of White /Black / Red adidas F50is, a decision that was replicated by second half substitute and goalscorer Jermain Defoe.

As the other substitutes came on, so the number of white football boots increased. Carlton Cole arrived in a pair of Nike Tiempo Air legend IIs in White / White (and you dont get much whiter than that), while midfielder Michael Carrick strutted his stuff in the White / Black PUMA King XLs.

Seven players out of the squad in white football boots is a decent number, and with a bit of poetic licence, you could increase that number to nine by including Ashley Cole in his White / Blue PUMA v1.08s and Joleon Lescott in his White / Red Nike Total 90 Laser IIs.

So, out of that lot, whats your choice of the best white football boot out of the current crop as modelled by Englands finest?

Let us know by commenting below.