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Venezuala's new Sports Minister.:cool:

IvySlayer

I can see the country getting behind her....huehuehehuehuehuheue

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Watching ESPN Classic and they are advertising for subscriptions.Very odd considering ESPN is going off the air in July as BT take over.The only ESPN branded channel left will be showing American sports.
Gonna be interesting to see how much we'll be charged to watch BT Sports considering Sky customers in Ireland get ESPN free.

Marty McFly

zerks wrote: »

Watching ESPN Classic and they are advertising for subscriptions.Very odd considering ESPN is going off the air in July as BT take over.The only ESPN branded channel left will be showing American sports.
Gonna be interesting to see how much we'll be charged to watch BT Sports considering Sky customers in Ireland get ESPN free.

Is there any chance we will get BT for free instead of ESPN?

GLaDOS

This brought back some memories of playing football as a kid . Though we had 'World Cup' instead of 'Wembley', and 'fly keeper' instead of 'Rush keeper'

Kylo Ren

ScienceNerd wrote: »

This brought back some memories of playing football as a kid . Though we had 'World Cup' instead of 'Wembley', and 'fly keeper' instead of 'Rush keeper'

And 'No goal mooching' was no 'goal hanging'. "You're some bloody goal hanger"

Pro. F

Keno 92 wrote: »

And 'No goal mooching' was no 'goal hanging'. "You're some bloody goal hanger"

'Hatching' was what we called it.

The_Kew_Tour

Loved being the fly goalie

Kylo Ren

Pro. F wrote: »

'Hatching' was what we called it.

Hatching? Jesus. You must of grown up in an awfully rough estate. :P

Snibbing no?

GLaDOS

Was always hatching for us

Pro. F

Deleted User wrote: »

Snibbing no?

That was another one we used for it as well. Wouldn't have remembered it if you didn't post it.

Red Crow

It was called snitching!

IvySlayer

I used to be a hatcher :P I have asthma and can't run that much

dreamers75

hatching in dublin anyway.

Lovely Bloke

Definitely hatching.

Stick, Fly and last-man-back ar the three acceptable keeper terms.

Stick if one team had more players than the other team.

How high is the crossbar? As high as the keepers upstretched arm whenhe jumps, higher than that and it's over.

Ball over the jumper? Goal or not, or "it would have went in off" "No it wouldn't" "We'll take a penno then".

NEXT GOAL THE WINNER!!!!

D'Agger

It's fly keeper and goal hanging c'moffit

GavRedKing

D'Agger wrote: »

It's fly keeper and goal hanging c'moffit

Same around where I lived.

Goal hanger/poacher & fly keeper/last man back were the norm.

The_Kew_Tour

Goal hanger was normally laziest person in the group. Dirty feckers.

EdenHazard

we still play world cup, what else is there to do like?

G.K.

Can't remember what we called the keeper. May have been 'fly'. What's more worring is that this was in the last 10 years...

MagicIRL

Last man back and stick keeper. Always has, always will be.

Marty McFly

Ah the memorys , do kids still play like this? Never see them out all day playing ball like we used to.

EdenHazard

we still play, 3 and in, world cup, if someone did that get on knees and head it into goal from a yard away though that would just be bad out these days.

3hn2givr7mx1sc

In 3rd year we used to play against the 6th years every day. I was the resident hatcher, used to score at least 2 goals most games, but then the 6th years got thick and started kicking the shít out of me every game. :pac:

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baz2009 wrote: »

In 3rd year we used to play against the 6th years every day. I was the resident hatcher, used to score at least 2 goals most games, but then the 6th years got thick and started kicking the shít out of me every game. :pac:

That was acceptable if you hatched.

Anyone remember using those cheap plastic Champion balls that used to fly all over the place and end up shaped like an egg by the end of a game?

IvySlayer

G.K. wrote: »

Can't remember what we called the keeper. May have been 'fly'. What's more worring is that this was in the last 10 years...

Fly keeper or last man back

Kerrigooney

I miss being young

Marty McFly

Did anyone else used to play football tennis? Every summer for a couple of weeks when Wimbeldon was on.

Kerrigooney

Marty McFly wrote: »

Did anyone else used to play football tennis? Every summer for a couple of weeks when Wimbeldon was on.

Haha,yeah sure did. I'd forgotten about it till now. Great game.

Marty McFly

Kerrigooney wrote: »

Haha,yeah sure did. I'd forgotten about it till now. Great game.

Sure was , every summer tv full of Wimbeldon what shall we do play tennis? Nah let just draw a line draw a line on the road and play tennis with a football, then you had doubles football tennis .

Kerrigooney

Marty McFly wrote: »

Sure was , every summer tv full of Wimbeldon what shall we do play tennis? Nah let just draw a line draw a line on the road and play tennis with a football, then you had doubles football tennis .

There was a school just across the road from my house and they used to leave the tennis nets up all summer(quiet area in the country) so we used to play on the tennis courts not on the road. This thread is making me very nostalgic for my youth.

Marty McFly

Kerrigooney wrote: »

There was a school just across the road from my house and they used to leave the tennis nets up all summer(quiet area in the country) so we used to play on the tennis courts not on the road. This thread is making me very nostalgic for my youth.

Ah you played posh football tennis :P:pac:, yeh nostalgic thoughts are flowing.

Mars Bar

I loved football tennis at the football camps!

Copper_pipe

Go to someones house that has a decent size lawn, have a soccer tennis tournament, with a ladder

Kerrigooney

Copper_pipe wrote: »

Go to someones house that has a decent size lawn, have a soccer tennis tournament, with a ladder

A decent size lawn AND a ladder :eek:

Now that's posh :pac:

dfx-

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

Definitely hatching.

Stick, Fly and last-man-back ar the three acceptable keeper terms.

Stick if one team had more players than the other team.

How high is the crossbar? As high as the keepers upstretched arm whenhe jumps, higher than that and it's over.

Ball over the jumper? Goal or not, or "it would have went in off" "No it wouldn't" "We'll take a penno then".

NEXT GOAL THE WINNER!!!!

And whoever kicked it, goes after it.

As a keeper/last man back, I was making sure this was enforced, particularly when the hatcher belted it down the road

Kylo Ren

We played a game called 'skills'. You probably called it something different. It was where you each had a finite amount of lives and the first keeper would get an extra one. You could only score on the volley and if it went wide you were put on goal. Last two people settled it on penalties.

nicklauski

Keno 92 wrote: »

We played a game called 'skills'. You probably called it something different. It was where you each had a finite amount of lives and the first keeper would get an extra one. You could only score on the volley and if it went wide you were put on goal. Last two people settled it on penalties.

That was called "Heads and Volleys " where I'm from. 7 lives. First Keeper got 8.

GavRedKing

Keno 92 wrote: »

We played a game called 'skills'. You probably called it something different. It was where you each had a finite amount of lives and the first keeper would get an extra one. You could only score on the volley and if it went wide you were put on goal. Last two people settled it on penalties.

We used to call it Nods & Volleys, you could only score with a volley or header.

I remember the amount of complaining when a ball went over a jacket or "post" and if it was in or not or when some poor fecker on goal used to always moan when people were volleying in from about 6yards out.

Good times :pac:

Red Crow

Heads and Volleys no?

The_Kew_Tour

No wonder I have bad knees when playing in goals as a Kid I dived on concrete.

Was worth it just to save shots from those Goal hanging cheats though.;)

Lovely Bloke

Heads and Volleys or Three and In

• only score with a head or volley
• can't set yourself up
• wide, over or a clean catch by the keeper and the outfield lose a life
• outfield has 3 lives
• last person to lose a life goes in
• can't score from "too close" in
• no blemmers

nicklauski

The nostalgia in here the last few days. Ahhhh good times.

World Cup.
Heads n Volleys
Goal Hanging.

We also used to play "Names" basically ya kicked the ball against a piece of the wall, called someones name (generally the furthest away from you, so they would have to leg it for the ball ) they then had One touch and a shot to hit the wall again whilst calling someone elses name.

I'm sure other people played it and called it something else

Lovely Bloke

Anyone play "Squares" or "ABC"?

GavRedKing

nicklauski wrote: »

The nostalgia in here the last few days. Ahhhh good times.

World Cup.
Heads n Volleys
Goal Hanging.

We also used to play "Names" basically ya kicked the ball against a piece of the wall, called someones name (generally the furthest away from you, so they would have to leg it for the ball ) they then had One touch and a shot to hit the wall again whilst calling someone elses name.

I'm sure other people played it and called it something else

I think we called it rebound or some variation of that.

Simpler times, anyone who had bought a new leather football was automatically the coolest guy around.

I remember a few times as well you'd call to the guy with the ball and your game hinged on whether or not he was playing or would lend ya the ball.

Kylo Ren

nicklauski wrote: »

We also used to play "Names" basically ya kicked the ball against a piece of the wall, called someones name (generally the furthest away from you, so they would have to leg it for the ball ) they then had One touch and a shot to hit the wall again whilst calling someone elses name.

I'm sure other people played it and called it something else

We called it 'wall ball'. Ours involved two people and they had to kick it first touch.

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Washington Irving

Keno 92 wrote: »

We played a game called 'skills'. You probably called it something different. It was where you each had a finite amount of lives and the first keeper would get an extra one. You could only score on the volley and if it went wide you were put on goal. Last two people settled it on penalties.

We called it 'On The Volley'. We had a rule where if the keeper caught the ball cleanly whoever touched it last went in goal. There was no winner, just whoever hit 0 lives first had to stand in the goal, bend over, and everyone gets a shoot at them from 5 yards

Nuri Sahin

I'm only 25 and it feels like a lifetime ago I played Heads n Volleys, Wall Ball, World Cup, etc. Good times they were.

SaulGoode9 wrote: »

We called it 'On The Volley'. We had a rule where if the keeper caught the ball cleanly whoever touched it last went in goal. There was no winner, just whoever hit 0 lives first had to stand in the goal, bend over, and everyone gets a shoot at them from 5 yards

Red Arse that was.