It is a trend many believe was started by Jack Grealish — pulling football socks down to just above the ankle and wearing tiny shin pads that barely cover the lower leg.
'It's just his style,' his former Aston Villa manager Tim Sherwood said in 2015. 'If he performs how I think he can, he can dress how he wants.'
The Manchester City star has rolled his socks down and worn children's shin pads since his breakthrough and it has become a trademark others have replicated. Some, such as Grealish, wear small shin pads but instead keep their socks high.