Things that happened while playing football as a kid

SuperInfinity

Nozebleed wrote: »

3 an in..

nobody else play this?

It was already mentioned. I played it but from where we're from it was called "Three goals in", and the person who scored them got to choose who went in goal.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Whatsisname wrote: »

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

In my school we called it 'Copies'.

SuperInfinity

splendid101 wrote: »

In place of penalty shootouts? What would they have, a spare, independent keeper on the sideline to step into the breech?

No, there'd be the goalkeeper and defender against one attacker. The attacker would be trying to score while they would be trying to put it out of play or past the halfline or something.

fasttalkerchat

Le Graduate wrote: »

Used to play a game called 'Heads/ Flicks' as the name suggests you can only score by volley or a header. Golie was whoever drew the short straw and shots could only be taken outside the 'box'.

You started off with three lives but you only lost them if someone scored on you when you were in goal. If you missed a shot on goal by it going wide you ended up between the sticks.

Good times

Something similar but instead of lives the keeper counts down from 60. When he gets to zero, last to touch it is in nets. If the keeper gets a clean catch from your shot, you're in nets. If you Dirty Joe you're in nets.

mathstalk

"Last one to touch the crossbar is in!"

entropi

NegativeCreep wrote: »

We used to call them "selfers" :pac:

Or "me fein'ers" :pac:


We also used to play poles. Each pole had 5 lives, last one with a life on the pole is the winner. And in other areas here, "heads and volleys" was called "overs and wides". We were not those people

Mars Bar

Ah those derby footballs were great. The sting off them if you saved a rasper with your hand. You got a smack with that in the face and you were looking like a pug.

Those cup champions used to take off with the wind. It's kind of odd that todays professional footballs imitate the movement of those cup champion balls.

The pub my mam works in has two shrubs that are THE perfect goals in the beer garden. We spent hours playing football out there. There is a dip in the garden as well and if you're running fast enough you'd just gather more spit and fall flat on your face. Good times!

Hide the Rum

When there was no Cup Champions balls left and you had no option but to buy one of them feckin' cheap yokes that changes direction in the air, they were game changers.

When someone got a leather ball, and sh1t got real.

Having to play with a tennis ball in school because the bigger ones were "too dangerous", you needed karate skills to catch that thing on the volley.

Or when they let the top yard classes down to the bottom yard and there was 4 matches happening on the one pitch. Must have gotten hit in the face with a ball at least 6 times that day, memories.

shuyin1

Le Graduate wrote: »

Used to play a game called 'Heads/ Flicks' as the name suggests you can only score by volley or a header. Golie was whoever drew the short straw and shots could only be taken outside the 'box'.

You started off with three lives but you only lost them if someone scored on you when you were in goal. If you missed a shot on goal by it going wide you ended up between the sticks.

Good times

heads and volleys! basically cant play a match with 3 people, thus the game was born

bijapos

Nozebleed wrote: »

3 an in..

nobody else play this?

Yeah, we played it all the time, a good game when there wasn't enough to make up two teams, as more people joined it would suddenly be abandoned and we'd divide into two teams.

The way we played it was whoever scored 3 goals went in goals, handy if you wanted a breather. It's still and excellent way to play footballl, you are defending and attacking at virtually the same time, playing with and then against the same guy almost at the same time.

I taught kids how to play this in Germany when I lived there and was working at a sports club in the town where I lived. The head coach for under age teams was amazed that they had never thought of something like it before, there again he reckoned the total chaos involved didn't suit the German way.

tippspur

johnmcdnl wrote: »

I'm Michael Owen, no I'm Michael Owen, your were Michael Owen yesterday so its my turn, no I called it first, no I called it over there, no you didn't, yes I did

Then to settle the dispute first person to decide to touch with the ground got to be Michael Owen

HaHa yeah,in my day you could substitute George Best for Michael Owen there.

tippspur

Great thread,the memories !

mikemac1

Taking a penalty and doing the Aldo shuffle!

John Aldridge had this very strange start stop start run up routine, worked for him so we all tried it

IM0

anyone else wondering how many other people from the thread grew up in their area :eek: how did we all evolve the same games and names and stuff in different parts of the country or just towns

BunShopVoyeur

Playing with a tennis ball in the school yard.

Edit: Fûcking hell...beaten to it again

Sunnyisland

IM0 wrote: »

anyone else wondering how many other people from the thread grew up in their area :eek: how did we all evolve the same games and names and stuff in different parts of the country or just towns

I grew up in the sixties and street games was all we had,Suppose a lot of other posters here were the same,having the street games that is ;)

helimachoptor

Where I live there were a number of estates around, about 10 on total. Each summer would begin the same with lads from the same estate playing each other,essentially these were warm ups for the big games.

Once the summer project was over we'd about 2 week left before school and the estate cup would start. Each teams captain would send messengers to get the game organised and if you were picked for your estate team it was a big thing!

I remember one year we were a goal down in the final and one of the opposition lads got a knee to the head the ball fell to be in the box and I'd an open net, behind me screams of "shoooooot" I picked it up and kicked it out of play as the other lad looked fcuked. The other team commended my sportsmanship and gave me a free penalty which I scored howeve we lost the game in the end.

Even years later I'd see some of the lads I played against and they still comment on it. It really was an honourable game amongst kids back then due to the innocent of youth!

cyrusdvirus

70's to 80's kid here

On the Vol ...... headers and volleys

World Cup... Massive big free for all, 1 goal to get through first round 2 for second etc.. depending on the amount of players the final could be 16 goals to decide the winner!!

3 and in... same as above without the ever increasing scoreline, mad big free for all

GavRedKing

One I always rememebr was if anyone had a proper football, like a Mitre/Nike/Adidas type it was never, ever allowed to touch the concrete in fear of ruining it.

cyrusdvirus

GavRedKing wrote: »

One I always rememebr was if anyone had a proper football, like a Mitre/Nike/Adidas type it was never, ever allowed to touch the concrete in fear of ruining it.

HA!! i remember that!!

You'd have one of the plastic hand stingers for games where there was even the slightest possibility of it hitting the concrete... then a leather yoke for a proper pitch.

Xavi6

"NO HOMEMADE VOLLEYS!!!" :mad:

The anguished cry of many a goalkeeper during Red Arse. For those unaware, a 'homemade volley' is a volley that you've either flicked up for yourself off the ground or when you've taken about 50 touches to control a cross before shooting. Made it a lot harder for a keeper to save, very important when your arse is on the line.

And for the record, the proper terms are World Cup, three and in, bull toe, hatching, and heads and volleys :cool:

TrustedApple

Back in primary school over 8 years ago at this stage :eek: . We had like the best wall ever i think it was a old handball wall.

We used to play a game called Tip Of The Wall in which there was maybe at lest 10 of us playing. The rules where that you had to hit the wall with the ball and if you missed you where out. But the killer move was that if you hit the wall and got the ball over the wall you got a free kick from be hide the wall and you basically got to knock some one out.

Targets was a game we used to play the odd time in the mooring. It used to be everyone in class lined up on the wall and that if you get hit you are out and last guy standing wins.

Then we had football on the pitch in which was at lest a 13 a side game with no trow ins but there was corners .

We also had the game on the basket ball court in which you had to hit the pole to get a goal

But i would love to get a few of the lads from school again and play a game of tip of the wall so much was had in that game

podgemonster

Anyone play off the wall? You need Players (more than 1), a ball and a wall. Each player is given lives and everyone takes turns belting the ball of the wall to make the next shot as difficult as possible.

Veteran players you take a risky shot and just tip the side of the wall sending it way left the wall causing the other players to curl there shots in order to stay in the game.

Our wall was in the playground, hit the ball right and it ended up behind the slide, hit the ball too high and its out on to the main road into traffic. This could go on for hours thanks to the "Doggie Life" rule but the games got shorter and players dwindled as we got older due to lads going "shifting" in the toilets with the girls.

upandcumming

Griffin1988 wrote: »

Roaring a players name like a commentator as you volleyed the ball

ZIDDDAAAANNNE!

WINDAAASSSSSSS!

I_smell_fear

I vaguely recall playing a game we christened 'dirty soccer' back in Primary school. It was usually played when the ground was fairly soft but not after too much rain, dirty Autumn kind of weather. Scoring goals wasn't a priority in this game as much as mastering a sliding from 15 yards away to buckle the opponent was. Coming away from the game with your pants littered in skid marks (no, not the one's you're thinking of! ) was an accepted outcome and pretty much part of the fun. Mother's were not best pleased when we got home.

JohnMarston

Getting a belt in the face from a hard plastic football on a winters morning

SuperGrover

No lashers in the box

kfallon

8 games of football going on simultaneously in the same yard at lunchtime, all of them about 20 a side

Dyr

We used to play out in the carpark at night because of the street lights, so being the permagoalie, I had a concrete wall for a goal as well as tarmac for a goalmouth.:o

Late one summer night we were playing away around the times the pubs kicked out and a few older fellas heading back from the local walked past and joined in. They were handy enough cos they played for one of the local teams so it was a bit of craic. Then some more ould lads wandered past after last orders and joined in..and then more, Within about 15 minutes we had an exhibition match going with a handful of 12 years olds and a dozen half pished oul fellas heading back from the boozer. Some of them would'nt have been able to kick a ball sober but that just made it more fun, everyone pissing themselves laughing and trying to pull off Maradonna move's. Lads would wander off home after a bit only to be replaced by another lad heading past with a skinful being pressed into action

One of the happier memories of an 80s childhood :pac:

howyanow

we used to play in a field with a main road running directly behind one of our goals i.e bundles of jumpers.one day one of the lads scores a goal and the ball flies in the window into the drivers lap of a van while hes driving past.he was good enough to bring the ball back,too funny at the time.
also had a priest give out ****e to us for cutting the lines of a football pitch into the grass,as if it was evil vandalism!!