Football games growing up

[ClaretsPadiham]

Cuppies & Double Cuppies - One player goes in goal and the rest play against each other. The last player to score in each round is eliminated, sometimes games could last for 4 hours growing up round Stoops.

Red Arse - That sudden burst of energy you got when you was in goal and only 1 goal was needed, you turned into prime Gigi Buffon

We used to play this game where we defended a garden gate, if your gate was hit you was out

Loads more …. Once bounce, Wall’y, Keepy uppies.

What’s your memories of growing up and the games you played ?

Remember constantly being under cars to get your ball out and refusing to use your ‘new ball’ on concrete

[bumba]

I remember flicking swings around the top of their bars so we could use the frames as goalposts for cuppies or headers and volleys haha
Curby as well with a football, catch it and you got double points

[jdrobbo]

Slam!

Football rounders

Football golf.

[Devils_Advocate]

Anyone remember playing K9 Keeper where you tied one of your mates dogs lead to one of the house gates and then took pens with the gate being the goals and the dog being the keeper? One of the lads on our street had a dog who was unbelievable and would hardly ever let one in

[burnmark]

Double Cuppies was the one for us at dinner time at St Ted’s.

‘Sixties’ at break as you only got twenty minutes.

[Tw@]

Sensible soccer on Commodore Amiga

[Vegas Claret]

I remember flicking swings around the top of their bars so we could use the frames as goalposts for cuppies or headers and volleys haha
Curby as well with a football, catch it and you got double points

Curby !!! blast from the past, love it

[ElectroClaret]

Wall-y was a definite fave.
And inevitably, the plastic ball would puncture and someone would try to melt the plastic over the hole with a fag end to try and repair it.

[dandeclaret]

60’s was always a favourite… chance for a spectacular volley to bounce down off the crossbar, which was often the frame of the swings.

Cuppies games were huge at Teds….. could stretch multiple breaks and lunches.

[bfcjg]

Three and your in, score 3 goals and you took a stint in the nets. Crossbar, trying to hit crossbar, players either side first team to hit it say 5 times won.

[ClaretsPadiham]

60’s was always a favourite… chance for a spectacular volley to bounce down off the crossbar, which was often the frame of the swings.

Cuppies games were huge at Teds….. could stretch multiple breaks and lunches.

We used to have 40 against 40 games at dinnertime at Teds (On the older years yard) not good when you was wearing Rockport boots

[Burnley1989]

Anyone remember playing K9 Keeper where you tied one of your mates dogs lead to one of the house gates and then took pens with the gate being the goals and the dog being the keeper? One of the lads on our street had a dog who was unbelievable and would hardly ever let one in

[wilks_bfc]

60 seconds - you had 60 seconds to score a goal. Anybody that didn’t was out. Those left in then had 50 seconds, then 40 etc
If it there was still anybody left after 10 seconds it then went to 2 in 60 etc

[Quickenthetempo]

One man Wembley. Cuppies was two players.
60s and various spin offs. Last attack Platt was based on Platts last minute goal against Belgium. Header and volley to score but if you miss, you went in goal.

Squares was a good games. 8 lads in 8 different squares, ball could only bounce once in your square, twice and you were out. Or once and out of play. Eliminations until last man.

[California Claret]

Cuppies, double cuppies and headers and vollies all bring back memories of playing football as a kid with my mates on the field behind my house.

We'd also have big 10 a side games in the summer holidays that would go on till it got dark.

When there were only two of us we'd play a game where one was the goalkeeper and the other was the outfield player. First to ten goals, the outfield player could score but couldn't come too close to shoot, the goalkeeper got a goal if he made a good enough save.

That lead to lots of VAR type delays while we figured out whether shots had been too close to count and the goalkeeper would always try and make routine saves look world-class by diving acrobatically! Some of Trafford's saves remind me of that game! He doesn't get up and yell at imaginary defenders to get tighter like we used to do though!

[CaptJohn]

Gridsy: Played with a tennis ball. The grids were the ones built into the kerb stones and weren't exactly opposite one another on the road. They were the goals and it was damned difficult to score as you had to keep the ball low. Spent hours playing that. I doubt you'd be able to play it now with all the parked cars and so much traffic

[Rowls]

What you Lancashire folk call cuppies was Wembley in the Midlands.

Any other regional variations for this game?

[Jakubs Tash]

Sensible soccer on Commodore Amiga

I see your Sensible Soccer and raise you Emlyn Hughes International Soccer on the Commodore 64. Great game. Great memories.

[Kilson810]

Red arse is the classic. Last goal had to be a volley, followed by great scenes when someone blasts in a worldie.

[RicardoMontalban]

I see your Sensible Soccer and raise you Emlyn Hughes International Soccer on the Commodore 64. Great game. Great memories.

I had a succession of proto champ manager ‘style’ games on the C64 that I would play for hours. I had one called Football Director which came out in about 1986 and was so basic by today’s standards, pick your 11 and watch the clock tick up. Weirdly addictive.

https://youtu.be/BUkAponSXMo?si=FacePTCXd2Bk1H15

[jedi_master]

Cuppies and Wall-y in Todmorden in my childhood (90's-early 2000's)

There were evenings where you'd have about 20 of us stood in the giant car park behind Kwik Save (shop and car park long gone now, where Aldi is these days) battering the ball against the huge 20ft wall that was there in a Wall-y game that would go on absolutely hours.

[Murger]

We used to play cuppies with a tennis ball at high school between 95-00.

[RMutt]

What you Lancashire folk call cuppies was Wembley in the Midlands.

Any other regional variations for this game?

Wembley in Rossendale too, as I recall. Also the ability to just wander up and join in a game with relative strangers. I remember doing this well into my teens. Often on a full sized grass pitch with just normal every day clothes on, bar, sometimes a pair of boots. Massive fifteen a side games sometimes.

[Tw@]

I see your Sensible Soccer and raise you Emlyn Hughes International Soccer on the Commodore 64. Great game. Great memories.

Microprose soccer C64

[Cheats]

One man and two man wembley in Accrington too. World Cup was on of my favourites. A bunch of you playing against one goalie. You had to score between you from a header or volley, if the keeper caught it then he got a goal. First to 5. Simple but classic.

Emlyn Hughes International Soccer on the C64 had an absolute belter of a loading music tune!

[claptrappers_union]

I played Wally almost everyday and every evening for five years at high school.

I drove past the little car park where we played recently and I have no idea how we did it.

[Jakubs Tash]

I had a succession of proto champ manager ‘style’ games on the C64 that I would play for hours. I had one called Football Director which came out in about 1986 and was so basic by today’s standards, pick your 11 and watch the clock tick up. Weirdly addictive.

https://youtu.be/BUkAponSXMo?si=FacePTCXd2Bk1H15

I had this too! Wow - brought back some memories of 10 year old me playing this (and hoping it would load up first time). Thanks for posting the link.

[boatshed bill]

Before there were many cars on the street we used to play a game called "Gutters" with a tennis ball.
One player on either side of the road, both constantly running (Obv in the same direction). A goal was scored if you hit the other players kerb within a yard of his foot. Played only with feet of course.

[RicardoMontalban]

I had this too! Wow - brought back some memories of 10 year old me playing this (and hoping it would load up first time). Thanks for posting the link.

Don’t ever recall having an issue getting it load, what I did have an issue with was getting to play more than one season! Took me a couple of years to work out that I had to save it on another blank tape, reload the game, then load the saved game. Imagine having that sort of faff now.

I had another odd football game where you were a striker playing in some sort of European super league. You had to earn these chance cards that could be used for giving you an opportunity to score a goal in set piece moves. You earned these by either buying them with your wages, or taking part in some weird football general knowledge quiz which was already a couple of years out of date by the time I got the game.

Then of course there was Peter Shilton’s Handball Maradona. Classic.

I am still, much to my wife’s bemusement/despair, a fan of FM or FIFA games. No idea what she’d have made of their ancestors on the C64.

[ClaretinJapan]

Trying to play with a "Wembley Hawk" ball was always a laugh. More swerve than Falcao, but never when you needed it.

[Clive 1960]

Cuppies and crossbar was what i used to play or next goal wins even if you were winning at cut off time...

[StuffyClaret]

Jumpers for goalposts


Also...slightly off topic as it wasn't football related but in the mid 80s, at Mansfield, we had a long period where we played Cannon using four dolly clothes pegs and a tennis ball. It was a bit like a cross between Cricket and Ball Tig. Great fun.