Things that happened while playing football as a kid

ap1986

Picking numbers to pick teams, then someone forgets their number and you have to start all over again AND shouting Next goal wins even when the scores arn't even.Has to be classics!!!

NegativeCreep

Jumpers for goalposts :cool:

starbelgrade

Jumpers for goalposts that kept moving closer together during the game.

u140acro3xs7dm

ap1986 wrote: »

Picking numbers to pick teams, then someone forgets their number and you have to start all over again AND shouting Next goal wins even when the scores arn't even.Has to be classics!!!

I fúcking hated that, i as always winning then someone would shout that and we would lose. Still not over it 20 years later

Pottler

Going up for a header, right inside the box, and some lanky defender elbows you in the ribs, breaking two or three of them. A lingering soccer memory. I played an awful lot of soccer..

ap1986

STOP HATCHIN!!!!

marshmallowx

'last man back', u never see that in the leagues..

Tombi!

Does anyone know what "fly goalie" actually came from?
I lived in Dublin City in the 90s and to us, it was "goalie is allowed be a normal player, no handball outside the box".

But why "fly goalie"?!

Sea Sharp

Football sets off a car alarm, everybody runs.

Pottler

Running so hard your lungs felt like they might just come up your neck, and really caring if the keeper was crap, if the scores were right, and if your Da was watching.

senorwipesalot

Pulled off at half time.
Nice.

theavenger

Penos all round!!!

DEFTLEFTHAND

House, House. Watch your House!!

ap1986

something to do with having uneven numbers for teams so the goalie on the team with fewer players could also play out field i think

starbelgrade

senorwipesalot wrote: »

Pulled off at half time.
Nice.

We were lucky if we got oranges.

Pottler

Brutal Deluxe wrote: »

Does anyone know what "fly goalie" actually came from?
I lived in Dublin City in the 90s and to us, it was "goalie is allowed be a normal player, no handball outside the box".

But why "fly goalie"?!

HAH! Had forgotten that one. "Handball!!!" - No, he was fly-goalie - "Oh, Ok then,", hah! Good times.

Tombi!

ap1986 wrote: »

something to do with having uneven numbers for teams so the goalie on the team with fewer players could also play out field i think

Was that to me about fly goalie?
I used to think that myself. But it would happen with even teams also.

ap1986

Or saying.... That was over, how do you know? Cause I couldnt reach it !!

starbelgrade

Brutal Deluxe wrote: »

Was that to me about fly goalie?
I used to think that myself. But it would happen with even teams also.

A fly goalie was the appointed goalkeeper who was also free to play anywhere else on the pitch.

It was also gave the fly goalie free reign to basically handle the ball anywhere on the pitch. It was like having a GAA player on your team.

ap1986

Pottler wrote: »

HAH! Had forgotten that one. "Handball!!!" - No, he was fly-goalie - "Oh, Ok then,", hah! Good times.

something to do with having uneven numbers for teams so the goalie on the team with fewer players could also play out field i think

mikemac1

Take a shot and the ball ends down the hill feckin miles away

The rule was if it was a goal the keeper had to run and get it

If it was wide whoever took the shot had to do the fetching

Fair is fair

Pottler

Or picking the worst lad cos he was last, then having to convince him that "being goalie" was actually an Honour! Or the ball going out of play, and busting your hole to get it back so you could score another goal, to "level it up", jasus, the shame of going into class after break having lost, with your uniform stuck to you with sweat!

ap1986

Bagsy not in goal!!!!!!!!

mikemac1

Game of Wembley

One goal and keeper, score a goal and you go into the next round, last man eliminated

Hours of fun and brutally competitive,

How it got that name I don't know

ap1986 wrote: »

STOP HATCHIN!!!!

What does this mean?

Pottler

starbelgrade wrote: »

A fly goalie was the appointed goalkeeper who was also free to play anywhere else on the pitch.

It was also gave the fly goalie free reign to basically handle the ball anywhere on the pitch. It was like having a GAA player on your team.

:DFell off the chair laughing! Too tru though!

starbelgrade

mikemac1 wrote: »

What does this mean?

It means that you are Gary Linekar.

Tombi!

mikemac1 wrote: »

What does this mean?

Either staying in the goalie's box or else staying in the goalies box.

Will I Amnt

Heads and volleys.
60 seconds.
Wembley.

You're dinner is ready............ah bollox.

Tombi!

starbelgrade wrote: »

A fly goalie was the appointed goalkeeper who was also free to play anywhere else on the pitch.

It was also gave the fly goalie free reign to basically handle the ball anywhere on the pitch. It was like having a GAA player on your team.

Ya smart fecker!
I bet you were one of the kids who new all these "rules" :pac:

mikemac1

Brutal Deluxe wrote: »

Either staying in the goalie's box or else staying in the goalies box.

Ah, a goal hanger so.


Sure Filippo Inzaghi made a career out of it :cool:

ap1986

Going home in a huff if things aren't going your way and if the ball belongs to you, taking that with you as well!!

ap1986

stop hanging around the oppositons penalty area waiting for your team mates to do all the hard work for you just to tap it in!!!

starbelgrade

mikemac1 wrote: »

Ah, a goal hanger so.


Sure Filipo Inzaghi made a career out of it :cool:

As Alex Ferguson once said of him, "That lad must have been born offside".

ap1986

mikemac1 wrote: »

Game of Wembley

One goal and keeper, score a goal and you go into the next round, last man eliminated

Hours of fun and brutally competitive,

How it got that name I don't know



What does this mean?

stop hanging around the oppositons penalty area waiting for your team mates to do all the hard work for you just to tap it in!!!

Tombi!

ap1986 wrote: »

Going home in a huff if things aren't going your way and if the ball belongs to you, taking that with you as well!!

*knock at the door and the mother comes out*
*is Greg there?*
*Yes, he is*
*Is Greg allowed out to play?*
*NO! He's grounded!*
*Err... can his football come out to play*?

ap1986

cambo2008 wrote: »

Heads and volleys.
60 seconds.
Wembley.

You're dinner is ready............ah bollox.

ahhhhhhhhhhh maaaaaaaaaaaaaaa gimmie a minute im winnin!!!!

marshmallowx

Anyone who scored being called 'skilachi!!!!!'...and of course the 'glorys'...

starbelgrade

The park we used to play in as kids had thorn bushes all around it, so the balls would regularly get punctured by the thorns.

We soon discovered, that by breaking off a thorn & sticking it into the puncture, you could stop the ball from deflating any further. Some of the balls ended up with more thorns on them than rubber.

BillyMitchel

We used to play on the road and a pole to the wall was the goal always having to stop for cars and people. One time we were playing and my friends neighbour had just turned the corner we all stopped but he didn't see her. The ball is bouncing towards him, he done is usuall and screamed John Barnes wacked the ball on a half volley and smashed the woman right in face and knocked her clean out. She must of been 70 odd. We didn't know if she was dead or alive or if we should laugh or cry!

Few windows smashed in our time too.

ceegee

Fly goalie didnt really confer any extra privileges (keepers are usually allowed come outfield if they want). It just meant the other team had a stick goalie (couldnt leave his box).

There would generally be great debate about the exact terms of these rules prior to games, swiftly followed by a very loose and ever changing interpretation of them as the match went on.

Eventually it would end up as next goal wins, or best of 3, regardless. At the end of the match the losing team would generally announce the match wasnt actually finished and there would be a penalty shootout to decide who really won.

In the world of sport, the last man back rule is second only to cycling in terms of rule breaking and general corruption.

Pottler

Not hugely caring if the football was actually a "football" - tennis ball would do if nothing better was available - and having to decide between football and "Bulldog" cos both involved running a lot(and we were bursting with energy). Also, playing "mixed" teams, where you spent most of the time chatting up your best mates good-looking sister and letting her off when she got passed to.

Tombi!

The funny thing about all this is that we actually understood and agreed to the rules. And it was bleeding fair.

mikemac1

Your stylish yellow and black gloves

http://www.lynchschooluniforms.com/prd_img/508_1.jpg

Pottler

mikemac1 wrote: »

Your stylish yellow and black gloves

http://www.lynchschooluniforms.com/prd_img/508_1.jpg

oooh, you grew up posh!:D We just got "stingers"

gammygils

After a game which lasted on average 4 hours with the scores 24-22!

Around 20 lads gathered around the local water pump with lads taking turns to pump the handle and around 15 to 20 heads jostlin under the
spout mouths open guzzling the water.

Aah! The memories

Tombi!

gammygils wrote: »

Around 20 lads gathered around the local pump with lads taking turns to pump the handle and around 15 to 20 heads jostlin under the
spout mouths open guzzling the water.

Aah! The memories

One word removed and you're suddenly a pervert. :pac:

PeterStrauss The Second

Nods and volleys, best game ever.

Whatsisname

Dunno where ye get your "Wembley" outta lads, out in the stix we called it "World Cup"!

justshane

makers takers (if you won a fk or pen you took it)

Pottler

Whatsisname wrote: »

Dunno where ye get your "Wembley" outta lads, out in the stix we called it "World Cup"!

Same game, different name. Still a reddner to go out in the first round.

Tombi!

Whatsisname wrote: »

Dunno where ye get your "Wembley" outta lads, out in the stix Ireland we called it "World Cup"!

Fixed your post. :cool: