Cup Champions ball in the face on a frosty day

Giblet · 23-09-2014 09:19PM #1

Jumpers for goal posts hmm?

jimboblep · 23-09-2014 09:30PM

Even better when its a burst one

some random drunk · 23-09-2014 09:32PM

Being in goal on a wet day and wearing soaking wet yellow Mikasa gloves.

Sauve · 23-09-2014 09:34PM

I actually flinched

mikom · 23-09-2014 09:34PM

Astro-turf burns.

Dr. Mantis Toboggan · 23-09-2014 09:34PM

Getting hit in the bollox by a semi flat, freezing cold, cup champion ball was no fun.

Giblet · 23-09-2014 09:37PM

some random drunk wrote: »

Being in goal on a wet day and wearing soaking wet yellow Mikasa gloves.

The stink!

Remmy · 23-09-2014 09:38PM

and Sally O'Brien and the way she might look at ya

dxhound2005 · 23-09-2014 09:43PM

Oh, those Brazilians, you know? Circa 1970? Broke the mould. Theory out the window. Free expression of football. Uncategorisable. Is that a word? It is now! You know? Far cry from small boys in the park, jumpers for goalposts. Rush goalie. Two at the back, three in the middle, four up front, one's gone home for his tea. Beans on toast? Possibly, don't quote me on that. Marvellous.

The Backwards Man · 23-09-2014 09:47PM

That's not a ball.

This is a ball.

razorblunt · 23-09-2014 09:48PM

The same ball getting smashed against you in the inner thigh just at time of night in the summer when the sun was going down and it was getting dewy.

whiskeyman · 23-09-2014 10:02PM

Getting your ears flicked on an icy cold day

Giblet · 23-09-2014 10:06PM

Getting your white runners christened? Not on my watch bud!
Mitre football boots!!!

131spanner · 23-09-2014 10:09PM

Teacher starts ringing the school bell, "next goal wins!"

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo · 23-09-2014 10:13PM

131spanner wrote: »

Teacher starts ringing the school bell, "next goal wins!"

And chases us into the showers wiping us with his white towel.

Stinicker · 23-09-2014 10:16PM

Staying out late in the summer playing ball until eventually the midges hunt you indoors.

porsche959 · 23-09-2014 10:18PM

What's this? Foreign games? We'll have none of that nonsense here.

nullzero · 23-09-2014 10:20PM

Those balls had a particular reverb to them. Even the lightest of touches resulted in a high pitched pinging sound, added to the cold weather made to unwanted contact with cold ears even less pleasant.
As I remember they could float like nobodies business as well, football was a somewhat different sport when played with one.

Tail Docker · 23-09-2014 10:31PM

If one got lost, and sat for a few weeks, when re-discovered, it was like kicking a block of concrete. Still bate having no ball at all though. Shyte for keepie-ups.

some random drunk · 23-09-2014 10:35PM

I remember getting one of the orange ones thinking it would be great for playing with at night. Dunno what I was thinking - turned out to be very difficult to play with under orange street lights!

Once saw similar plastic footballs that had some sort of light inside them that you could switch on. Alas I didn't have the 4 quid on me at the time and I never saw them for sale again. Would have been class!

Giblet · 23-09-2014 10:35PM

nullzero wrote: »

Those balls had a particular reverb to them. Even the lightest of touches resulted in a high pitched pinging sound, added to the cold weather made to unwanted contact with cold ears even less pleasant.
As I remember they could float like nobodies business as well, football was a somewhat different sport when played with one.

Ah man, you'd hoof one up the field and it would make a deadly sound while curving like no-ones business.

KomradeBishop · 23-09-2014 10:41PM

The pinging sound from one of these bouncing off someones face was brilliant.

rogieop · 23-09-2014 10:46PM

Goal or a Penalty!

wp_rathead · 23-09-2014 10:52PM

"Goal!"
"It was over"
"No it wasn't it was in"

dmc17 · 23-09-2014 10:55PM

KomradeBishop wrote: »

The pinging sound from one of these bouncing off someones face was brilliant.

Except when the sound came from your own face :pac:

razorblunt · 23-09-2014 10:55PM

Tail Docker wrote: »

If one got lost, and sat for a few weeks, when re-discovered, it was like kicking a block of concrete. Still bate having no ball at all though. Shyte for keepie-ups.

Even worse was when it was crossed in you knew it was going to hurt but you had to put your head on it anyway, to save face in front of the lads.

Tail Docker · 23-09-2014 10:56PM

razorblunt wrote: »

Even worse was when it was crossed in you knew it was going to hurt but you had to put your head on it anyway, to save face in front of the lads.

"Token nodding". Lol.

Super-Rush · 23-09-2014 10:57PM

We used to play with one of the O'Neills GAA balls in school.

I took one of those to the ear on a frosty November morning.

I tried not to cry, i really really tried.

anncoates · 23-09-2014 11:00PM

Slide tackling on the grass and knowing immediately you've slid in dog sh1t. A guy in school actually got it on his face and was immediately christened sh1te savage.

anncoates · 23-09-2014 11:04PM

nullzero wrote: »

Those balls had a particular reverb to them. Even the lightest of touches resulted in a high pitched pinging sound, added to the cold weather made to unwanted contact with cold ears even less pleasant.
As I remember they could float like nobodies business as well, football was a somewhat different sport when played with one.

They had a really metallic pinging sound if you lashed t hem off a wall in a space with a slight echo like an alley or a gable end with walls .

HalloweenJack · 24-09-2014 12:37AM

There he goes now, being a ballhog as usual.

Cup Champions ball in the face on a frosty day

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