What do you mean like something out of a cartoon strip? I had boots just like them. Used to buy studs from the Walco near the Playhouse corner of Queens and Oldham Rd.Bert Sproston & Johnny Carey. I love Carey's boots - like something out of a cartoon strip from the old days. I used to love City's socks of those colours.
No chance of old Bert overlapping down the right wing then.
Why we needed studs I don't know because we played on the Red Rec , Monsall St and carpet slippers would have been better. I graduated to a pair of Continental boots in the mid fifties, which were indeed like the fore mentioned carpet slippers.