Walking Football in Lancashire?

[South West Claret.]

I'm staying up for the Liverpool and Brighton games in early Dec. and fancied playing WF at the Turf on the Friday but sessions are being cancelled because of the reason below

"All dates in December - the facility we use will be out of action due to the installation of a pop up bierkeller
Walking football will return after this period on Friday 18th of January."

I know a few on here play there and wondered if some of you were going to play somewhere else while the work is going on, now I've been playing WF for 6 years I will only play on a 3G surface and wondered where you were going to play. I'm not coming up by car so the place will have to be public transport doable.

[gandhisflipflop]

Stick around and you can see walking football on the Saturday at the turf.

[longsidetrumpet]

There's walking football on Fridays at St Peter's Centre in Burnley, but it's not 3G, a composite typical sports centre floor

[ClaretPope]

It’s 1000 to 1100 at St Peter’s on Friday. Quite competitive.

[Spike]

Joe Gallagher would even bobbins at this

[South West Claret.]

Thanks both but think I’ll give it a miss, might come and watch though providing know one else comes up with a reachable 3G pitch at that time.

[South West Claret.]

Just had a phone call (how he new my number I know not) anyway he sounded very tall on the phone, he asked what it was like playing at Burnley and of course I told him thinking he meant Walking Football but near the end he got a bit annoyed and said he would slam the phone down.

The phone was indeed slammed down, who it was well I couldn’t be sure but as I said he did sound very tall... Oh and he had a Southern ascent..

[Pstotto]

Coming soon to the area... Peter Crouch.

[Siddo]

I'm staying up for the Liverpool and Brighton games in early Dec. and fancied playing WF at the Turf on the Friday but sessions are being cancelled because of the reason below

"All dates in December - the facility we use will be out of action due to the installation of a pop up bierkeller
Walking football will return after this period on Friday 18th of January."

I know a few on here play there and wondered if some of you were going to play somewhere else while the work is going on, now I've been playing WF for 6 years I will only play on a 3G surface and wondered where you were going to play. I'm not coming up by car so the place will have to be public transport doable.

The 10 to 11 session at St Peter's on Friday is not walking football. Its the older end playing 5 a side.
Genuinely competitive and some good players.
"I will only play on 3G" . You're a Claret, not a southern snowflake. Get your backside down there!

[South West Claret.]

To the top for Homeclaret.

[Holmeclaret]

So does anyone actually play, not just in the Burnley area. It looks as though it could be a bit frustrating - very few flying headers, I imagine. Any opinions?

[South West Claret.]

Busy at the mo HC but will respond later if I can with the full SP for beginners, I have coached it the right way because like a lot of things there is a right and wrong way of doing things in life generally and at our age starting right is essential in my experience.

[bfcmik]

So does anyone actually play, not just in the Burnley area. It looks as though it could be a bit frustrating - very few flying headers, I imagine. Any opinions?

It is still a very competitive game. Minimal contact (it was originally designed to get older men back into exercise), not allowed to tackle from behind, ball not allowed over head height, heading the ball gives a free kick to the opposition, 2 minute sin-bin for 3 'running' calls, 2 dissents or if the ref thinks you were deliberately 'dirty'. The game is stopped during the o60 and above sessions when people hit the deck to check for injury. Running is hard not to do when that ball is just a foot or so in front of where you can get it. Lots of players get called for running when they knock the ball past me as it is almost a 2 mile run to get round

My club, Birmingham Walking Football Club are the largest club in the world, with over 450 members and 20 different sessions each week across various age groups (plus 1 women only session), and the chairman of our club is the current England over 50 manager. Our coach/organiser used to be a youngster at Forest when Dyche was there! He was sacked by Brian Clough for turning up to training smelling of beer and cigarettes. I play 2 or 3 90 minute sessions each week and have played in a couple of international tournaments against teams from Blackpool, Wigan, Rotherham, Italy, Spain, Germany and Switzerland.

The English Walking Football Association have a rule book and are trying to organise a World Cup for 2021. They have had a number of meetings with the FA to try to get the FA to amalgamate them into their organisation but have been met with total indifference so far.

[Holmeclaret]

It sounds great, Mik. Dr. has told me to avoid high impact because I've developed a problem in my knees - but apparently no problem with walking at speed.
I can imagine it must be hard to get out of the habit of running.

[bfcmik]

I can imagine it must be hard to get out of the habit of running.

That is the hard part, I have to say. There is always a belief that "If I just hurry a bit more, I should be able to reach that ball"!. A really good warm-up is essential but, from what I have seen, ankle, calf and thigh strains are still common. We all want to do our bit for the team and so often push ourselves just that little bit harder than our bodies are able to deliver.

Walking football (or walking rugby) gives good exercise for your core muscles and your joints. I used to walk around 10 miles a day when I was at JLR but felt stiff as a board when I played footie. The muscle groups used are hardly the same at all.

[vinrogue]

The trick to walking and not being blown up for running is to put your heel down first of your leading foot, it is how refs can determine a run against a walk, try running with your front foot hitting the ground heel first you would look like Crouch on Ice! We have some very strict refs and once the players realise it is called Walking Football for a reason our games end up with minimal cheating. Running is cheating.