The Good Old Days Playing Football

Hipper · Post by **Hipper** » Tue May 01, 2018 7:38 pm

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Smallpaul · Post by **Smallpaul** » Tue May 01, 2018 7:43 pm

Jumpers for goal posts.

Dazzler · Post by **Dazzler** » Tue May 01, 2018 7:46 pm

Girlfriends for cheerleaders

Dazzler · Post by **Dazzler** » Tue May 01, 2018 7:53 pm

Marl pits

Devils_Advocate · Post by **Devils_Advocate** » Tue May 01, 2018 7:58 pm

Expected this to be an anti Dyche thread based on the subject title

NEILTHO61 · Post by **NEILTHO61** » Tue May 01, 2018 7:58 pm

Warming up in front of the electric heater

bob-the-scutter · Post by **bob-the-scutter** » Tue May 01, 2018 8:04 pm

Freezing cold communal showers and having your buttocks towel-whipped

And that was just the spectators!

Hipper · Post by **Hipper** » Wed May 02, 2018 10:13 am

I seem to have missed out when I was a lad. I can't remember having my buttocks whipped or girlfriends as cheerleaders, or some other combination of these things.

Sausage · Post by **Sausage** » Wed May 02, 2018 10:19 am

Dog turds in the penalty area and broken glass in the six yard box. Glad I wasn't a goalkeeper.

Caernarfon_Claret · Post by **Caernarfon_Claret** » Wed May 02, 2018 10:35 am

bob-the-scutter wrote:Freezing cold communal showers and having your buttocks towel-whipped

And that was just the spectators!

Luxury.

starting_11 · Post by **starting_11** » Wed May 02, 2018 10:42 am

Having the power to award yourself a penalty at junior school

fatboy47 · Post by **fatboy47** » Wed May 02, 2018 10:48 am

Whitewellbottom B....and Tot faggin t'ball from down t'hill.

Foshiznik · Post by **Foshiznik** » Wed May 02, 2018 10:50 am

The difficulties of getting a yellow card that it became a spectacle when the ref brandished it.

claretblue · Post by **claretblue** » Wed May 02, 2018 11:17 am

'...do you want to play football lad or do you want to some maths?..'

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LordBob · Post by **LordBob** » Wed May 02, 2018 1:02 pm

Shadlock Cote on a wet winters day nobody really wanted to be there except Jackie Barnes turning up for the last 15 mins you tell him its nil nil and he asks you what it was at half time, miss him.

Vino blanco · Post by **Vino blanco** » Wed May 02, 2018 1:07 pm

Playing on Lockyer or up Towneley on cold, muddy pitches with an old casey ball, hoping that when you had to head it your forehead didn't come against the laces on the ball. That could really hurt!

ClaretEngineer · Post by **ClaretEngineer** » Wed May 02, 2018 1:16 pm

Memories of playing for the Rosehill on Lockyer with a dogs egg as the centre spot

LoveCurryPies · Post by **LoveCurryPies** » Wed May 02, 2018 1:33 pm

“The balls landed at the feet of Duggie Brown but is swiftly passed to Norman Collier. Roy Hudd intercepts and boots the ball over Tommy Cooper’s head. Leonard Sachs has stopped the game and is having words with Ken Dodd for wasting time. The match starts again...”

Ooopsss, looks like I have misunderstood the title.

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Wed May 02, 2018 2:03 pm

Bacup Rec,freezing our balls off.

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Wed May 02, 2018 2:04 pm

Barlow Fold playing in 8 inches of mud.

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Wed May 02, 2018 2:06 pm

Shadlock Cote getting covered in cow shite

Buxtonclaret · Post by **Buxtonclaret** » Wed May 02, 2018 2:06 pm

Ten goals each way....
No...teas not 'til 6.
Make it 15 each way.

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Wed May 02, 2018 2:08 pm

LordBob wrote:Shadlock Cote on a wet winters day nobody really wanted to be there except Jackie Barnes turning up for the last 15 mins you tell him its nil nil and he asks you what it was at half time, miss him.

Being a goal keeper I got peppered with questions from JB,and yes I remember the 0-0 conversations we had,great character sadly missed.

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Wed May 02, 2018 2:12 pm

Having a fag and a can leant on the goal post when we where playing someone we used to beat 25-0

Lancasterclaret · Post by **Lancasterclaret** » Wed May 02, 2018 2:12 pm

Fat coaches stinking of fags and booze shouting at you to "Push up" and then shouting when you concede a goal "WHY THE **** DID YOU PUSH UP?"

Foshiznik · Post by **Foshiznik** » Wed May 02, 2018 3:10 pm

The smell of cut grass, deep heat, vics and mud in the changing room.

NEILTHO61 · Post by **NEILTHO61** » Wed May 02, 2018 7:17 pm

Firey Jack in your undies put there by a red carded team mate. Resulting in an uncomfortable time in the pub afterwards

chipbutty · Post by **chipbutty** » Wed May 02, 2018 7:28 pm

I bet kids these days don`t play Cuppies and 3 and your in!

bfcjg · Post by **bfcjg** » Wed May 02, 2018 7:32 pm

Slide tackles through lime wash painted lines. OUCH.

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Thu May 03, 2018 7:38 am

So cold you couldn't do your buttons up after a match.
Changing room locked, so change behind them and pile your clothes up.
Wet day, leather ball weighing a ton.
Full size goals and little keeper!
No net, so score and the ball goes miles.
Just in the team and the football shirt is an old adult rugby shirt and is the length of your body.
In the playground, 4 matches 1st to 4th year, in a very small area. 5th years turn up to play...All move down one...first years watch in envy.
Get tripped over in the playground and feel the pain as you scrape the asphalt!
Ball kicked over the fence...whip round for new ball.

Hipper · Post by **Hipper** » Thu May 03, 2018 8:57 am

To continue Ian's list:

When ball goes over the fence, the one who kicked it over had to go and get it, unless he was 'the tough boy', then he would 'persuade' someone else to go.
When ball goes over the fence, irate householder threatens to put knife in ball but never did.
When ball goes over fence and lands in thorns: attempts later to repair ball by using a knife heated on a gas stove to melt the plastic over the hole - this was the good old Frido ball.

LoveCurryPies · Post by **LoveCurryPies** » Thu May 03, 2018 9:02 am

Those few seconds as your ball glided towards your neighbour's window.

piston broke · Post by **piston broke** » Thu May 03, 2018 9:04 am

Ive played a match so cold we filled the sinks with hot water and queued to drop your gonads in it, heaven.

MrClaretandBlue · Post by **MrClaretandBlue** » Thu May 03, 2018 9:09 am

25 a side, next goal wins.

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Thu May 03, 2018 9:57 am

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Wearing this type of boot.

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Thu May 03, 2018 9:58 am

Hammering the studs in with a lump hammer!

bob-the-scutter · Post by **bob-the-scutter** » Thu May 03, 2018 10:00 am

Hipper wrote:I seem to have missed out when I was a lad. I can't remember having my buttocks whipped or girlfriends as cheerleaders, or some other combination of these things.

That's dreadful! Did you have a note from yer mum excluding you?

4:20 · Post by **4:20** » Thu May 03, 2018 10:09 am

chipbutty wrote:I bet kids these days don`t play Cuppies and 3 and your in!

Double Cuppies!

60's!

Claretski · Post by **Claretski** » Thu May 03, 2018 10:10 am

Dogger up the leg of your shorts when making a sliding tackle, that still makes me shudder just remembering it.

Having rip raps thrown through the dressing room window when just out of the shower.

4:20 · Post by **4:20** » Thu May 03, 2018 10:15 am

Playing against a wall with the goal drawn on and arguing the whether the mud\Water\Dust ball imprint on the post or crossbar wouldve gone in in real life

Chobulous · Post by **Chobulous** » Thu May 03, 2018 10:38 am

Steve1956 wrote:
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Wearing this type of boot.

Billy's Boots

Holmeclaret · Post by **Holmeclaret** » Thu May 03, 2018 11:35 am

Playing on until it's so dark that you can't see your hand never mind the ball.

Chobulous · Post by **Chobulous** » Thu May 03, 2018 12:01 pm

Stoneyholme Junior Schoolyard was the perfect place for football. There were some epic games played in there outside of school hours. 10 change round games every night and all day Saturday and Sunday in the 60s and early 70s

Cirrus_Minor · Post by **Cirrus_Minor** » Thu May 03, 2018 12:35 pm

Playing with jeans on because you felt a Burke if you wore shorts.
Getting cows off the pitch so you could start the game.
Running half a mile by a river hoping the ball would come to the edge.
Games starts at 9 in the morning and finished when dark, 30+ on each side coming and going with dinner and tea time breaks.
Standing on the ‘baby line’ and scoring shot 40 goals.

Claretski · Post by **Claretski** » Thu May 03, 2018 12:47 pm

Not football I know but when I was young and foolish I used to fill in for our local rugby team if they were short some weeks as my mate used to play for them.
The club had just started so they hired a field off a local farmer who kept cows on it during the week, suffice to say being at the bottom of a ruck was never, ever a happy time

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Thu May 03, 2018 1:43 pm

Chobulous wrote:Billy's Boots

Billy'Boots you got me racking my brain now..Beano,Dandy, or Wizzer?

Chobulous · Post by **Chobulous** » Thu May 03, 2018 2:36 pm

Steve1956 wrote: Billy'Boots you got me racking my brain now..Beano,Dandy, or Wizzer?

It was in SHOOT wasn't it?

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Thu May 03, 2018 2:58 pm

Come on guys which comic was Billy's Boot's in?

Sausage · Post by **Sausage** » Thu May 03, 2018 3:02 pm

Steve1956 wrote:Come on guys which comic was Billy's Boot's in?

Scorcher, then Tiger, then Eagle.

The Beano character was Ball Boy.

Chobulous · Post by **Chobulous** » Thu May 03, 2018 3:30 pm

There was also Alf Tupper, the goal keeper that always had a clean sheet. He used to ride a motor bike with a sidecar made from an old bath.