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Things that happened while playing football as a kid

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    #32
    ap1986
    Registered Users Posts: 328 ✭✭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!!!


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    #33
    starbelgrade
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    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".


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    #34
    ap1986
    Registered Users Posts: 328 ✭✭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!!!


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    #35
    Tombi!
    Registered Users Posts: 6,689 ✭✭✭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*?


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    #36
    ap1986
    Registered Users Posts: 328 ✭✭ap1986


    cambo2008 wrote: »
    Heads and volleys.
    60 seconds.
    Wembley.

    You're dinner is ready............ah bollox.
    ahhhhhhhhhhh maaaaaaaaaaaaaaa gimmie a minute im winnin!!!!


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    #37
    marshmallowx
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    Anyone who scored being called 'skilachi!!!!!'...and of course the 'glorys'...


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    #38
    starbelgrade
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    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.


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    #39
    BillyMitchel
    Registered Users Posts: 3,324 ✭✭✭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.


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    #40
    ceegee
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    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.


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    #41
    Pottler
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    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.


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    #42
    Tombi!
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    The funny thing about all this is that we actually understood and agreed to the rules. And it was bleeding fair.


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    #43
    mikemac1
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    Your stylish yellow and black gloves

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


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    #44
    Pottler
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    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"


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    #45
    gammygils
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    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


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    #46
    Tombi!
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    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:


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    #47
    PeterStrauss The Second
    Closed Accounts Posts: 130 ✭✭PeterStrauss The Second


    Nods and volleys, best game ever.


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    #48
    Whatsisname
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    Dunno where ye get your "Wembley" outta lads, out in the stix we called it "World Cup"!


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    #49
    justshane
    Registered Users Posts: 1,120 ✭✭✭justshane


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


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    #50
    Pottler
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    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.


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    #51
    Tombi!
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    Whatsisname wrote: »
    Dunno where ye get your "Wembley" outta lads, out in the stix Ireland we called it "World Cup"!

    Fixed your post. :cool:


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    #52
    gammygils
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    Yeah! Speaking of thirst we used to have fine weather those days too! :cool:


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    #53
    mikemac1
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    glory glory alleluia,
    glory glory alleluia



    You sang in a right sarcastic manner at the local goal hanger

    +1 to calling these lazy players Schillacis!


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    #54
    a very cool kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 504 ✭✭✭a very cool kid


    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
    ap1986 wrote: »
    STOP HATCHIN!!!!

    What does this mean? :)


    Its actually called World Cup Knockout!


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    #55
    ap1986
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    PeterStrauss The Second wrote: »
    Nods and volleys, best game ever.
    Heads and volleys !!!!


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    #56
    PeterStrauss The Second
    Closed Accounts Posts: 130 ✭✭PeterStrauss The Second


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    glory glory alleluia,
    glory glory alleluia



    You sang in a right sarcastic manner at the local goal hanger

    +1 to calling these lazy players Schillacis!
    We called the lazy players matt le tissier if they did something good :pac:


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    #57
    BunShopVoyeur
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    'You're a hatcher!!!!"


    Edit: Sorry, been mentioned.


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    #58
    mikemac1
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    Cheap and nasty footballs but they would do

    The Derby 5, brilliant footballs, I'm pretty sure they still make these. If you owned one then you were very popular


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    #59
    marshmallowx
    Registered Users Posts: 68 ✭✭marshmallowx


    PeterStrauss The Second wrote: »
    We called the lazy players matt le tissier if they did something good :pac:

    Memories dude!


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    #60
    The hammers
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    The ball getting stuck in the ditch.. Spend more time searching for a ball then actually playing!


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    #61
    Witcher
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    Denying someone a goal because they 'toe bogged it':pac:

    Conceding a controversial goal and settling it by shouting 'give them a peno on it'.


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