Cup Champions ball in the face on a frosty day

Call Me Jimmy · 24-09-2014 12:39AM

Giblet wrote: »

Jumpers for goal posts hmm?

I feel violated

Witcher · 24-09-2014 12:39AM

wprathead wrote: »

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

'Give you a peno on it then'

:pac:

wp_rathead · 24-09-2014 12:39AM

HalloweenJack wrote: »

There he goes now, being a ballhog as usual.

Or being a goal hanger

HalloweenJack · 24-09-2014 12:42AM

Blay wrote: »

'Give you a peno on it then'

:pac:

Always smacked of guilt, that one did.

Another:
"Foul throw!"
"What's a foul throw?"
"When you don't have your feet on the ground."
"No, it's when you throw the ball after it's passed the top of your head."
"Or before?"
"Doesn't matter now, they've scored."

To this day, still don't know what a foul throw is.

HalloweenJack · 24-09-2014 12:42AM

wprathead wrote: »

Or being a goal hanger

Was always the one who'd get about ten tap-ins and go on about how he was the new Cantona.

Witcher · 24-09-2014 12:45AM

Anyone remember the balls that weighed a ton and had dimples on them..bit like this;

http://2.imimg.com/data2/WG/LF/FCP-2949821/data2-ak-cu-fcp-2949821-enkayballs-golty-250x250.jpg

Like a ****ing cannonball coming at you :pac:

Also one of these old veterans being dragged out for one last lap;

http://lastwordonsports.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1309957427QJ14n4.jpg

siblers · 24-09-2014 12:47AM

Playing with the orange ball with snow on the ground was the best.

Aubrey loves Joe · 24-09-2014 01:05AM

If you kicked it in July it would be still bouncing in September

Satriale · 24-09-2014 01:15AM

Kicking what you though was a snow covered Cup Champions ball and finding out it was a old kettle full of ice...

ballsymchugh · 24-09-2014 01:21AM

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.

if you were lucky, your record was 2.
3 and you were a genius.

Call Me Jimmy · 24-09-2014 01:42AM

DIYers, hatchers, bagsy keane/cantona/fowler, bash-ins, 'CAR!' and Names with a tennis ball on a crisp morning before school.

anncoates · 24-09-2014 07:48AM

wprathead wrote: »

Or being a goal hanger

Hatcher

Fly goalie

Hospital ball

Have a ging

Man on

Watch your house

Citroen2cv · 24-09-2014 08:44AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f2-Hw8ukqc

Cheesy peas at half time, mums at home making the tea.
Match of the day - da, dat da da dah da daa da da
The Arsenal, isnt it?

cournioni · 24-09-2014 09:08AM

Blay wrote: »

Anyone remember the balls that weighed a ton and had dimples on them..bit like this;

http://2.imimg.com/data2/WG/LF/FCP-2949821/data2-ak-cu-fcp-2949821-enkayballs-golty-250x250.jpg

Those balls were for the posh rich boys. :pac:

Remember these yokes?!

http://thumbs2.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/maWun3-svEhmqBS_XYGPrVw.jpg

Impossible to play football with. If you smashed one it would travel like crazy (while moving all over the place) for about ten metres and then stop. Good craic all the same.

24-09-2014 09:09AM

Giblet wrote: »

Jumpers for goal posts hmm?

I broke my toe with one of these. It had been sitting outside for a year or two. I can't tell if it had deflated and the plastic kept its shape or what but it was rock solid.

Screamer of a goal though, apparently.

cournioni · 24-09-2014 09:12AM

circadian wrote: »

I broke my toe with one of these. It had been sitting outside for a year or two. I can't tell if it had deflated and the plastic kept its shape or what but it was rock solid.

Screamer of a goal though, apparently.

Were you one of those bull toers?!

Akrasia · 24-09-2014 09:20AM

cournioni wrote: »

Were you one of those bull toers?!

No Bull Toeing!

One lad at school was famous for calling for a penalty because the keeper picked up the ball outside of the box

Also, 6th class vs 5th class at lunch time, 150th consecutive victory for 6th class

gandalf · 24-09-2014 09:37AM

Jaysus that brings me back. Playing football in the park ( a big green patch in the centre of our estate, it was built in the 1960's so they didn't pack houses everywhere!). I think I broke one of my neighbours windows with one of those balls back in the early 80's. God bless single glazing

pickarooney · 24-09-2014 09:40AM

The sting of a Wavin hurl and the pins and needles in your arms after you flake a wet leather sliotar.

24-09-2014 09:55AM

cournioni wrote: »

Were you one of those bull toers?!

30 yard toe pokes were my special move.

JIdontknow · 24-09-2014 09:57AM

Was it the Derby footballs? White and yellow, rubber ones. Werent too bad to play with back then, but if you left them in the sun getting the fish fingers beans and waffles at lunch, Im pretty sure when they bounced after that they would hit Mars... I remember one year there was a promotion for some european championships or world cup and avonmore or some dairy product the milkman used deliver us, gave us all promotional cheap leather footballs. Delighted at the beach that evening kicking them around and this príck of a dog comes from nowhere and just bites into it, that awkward few seconds where you think wait it didnt burst followed by the sound of air hissing out.... I didnt mind as it was my cousins not mine, que about an hour of, no you're not getting mine you had your own...

Then there was your first ever leather football, and being extra careful not using it on the concrete at all and checking it each time it went into the trees or ditch for thorns and not wanting to use it. Some memories!

duffman13 · 24-09-2014 10:04AM

If you hit one of them bad boys sweetly and it looks for all the world to be sailing over the bar before a vicious last minute dip to put it in the bottom corner. Them were the days!

Robbo · 24-09-2014 10:48AM

pickarooney wrote: »

The sting of a Wavin hurl and the pins and needles in your arms after you flake a wet leather sliotar.

There'll be no domestic games here in this thread.

Recognising the pureness of the game as it was played as with a Cup Champions ball, it seems that every World Cup FIFA try and make the matchball more and more like one. In fact if they were to only allow two types of boots (Puma Kings and Adidas World Cups, only in black) football might be saved.

gandalf · 24-09-2014 10:55AM

Ah I had a pair of these Patrick boots. Loved the fact the studs were metal

Egginacup · 24-09-2014 11:26AM

When taking a corner kick, getting screamed at by everyone "put it on the line. It's not your fcuking birthday!"

Heads and volleys
3 and in
last man back

gandalf · 24-09-2014 11:46AM

And don't forget the infamous "next goal wins" just as day turns to night

muddypaws · 24-09-2014 12:11PM

Most of you are obviously young fellas and young wans, real pain was playing with a leather ball with laces, that would get heavier and heavier as it got wet. And then heading it when the laces were on the wrong side of the ball, and that's what would hit your forehead, or the bit that you'd put the pump into would stick out a bit, and that would hit along with the laces. Ah good times

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/About/General/2010/9/24/1285346124440/Vintage-leather-football--006.jpg

jay1988 · 24-09-2014 10:51PM

Someone hand balls it during a game of world cup, only one solution.

Penos all round.

24-09-2014 10:56PM

When the ball gets blasted miles down the road/field
Goalie: ''Kickers, getters.
Everyone else: ''Keepers, getters.

When the ball rolled over the jumper
''That would've went post and in''

When the ball goes anywhere near head height of the goalkeeper
''That was over.''

Cup Champions ball in the face on a frosty day

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