New Balls Please
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New Balls Please
New Premier League ball for 2020/21
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Was never anything wrong with these!
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Or this
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Brings a whole new meaning to putting your laces through it....
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Looks like a dodecahedron.
Has there ever been a dodecahedral football before?
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The fear of what was going to hit your head with that ball posted by CT-please not laces on forehead, please please, please. Why was it that it seemed like that is what hit you 90% of the time and oh my goodness even worse whichever bit you headed when the ball was soaked from rain
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Mmmmmm that answers a lot.
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Remember when the ball was smooth and Craig Johnston invented his boots covered in pingpong bat grip?
Now the grooves are in the ball and they play in slippers.
Now the grooves are in the ball and they play in slippers.
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Shoddy bit of lacing there. Even I could get it with just the laces going smooth across the laceholes.
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If you headed that Casey with the lacing as per photo you’d end up with 6 stitches in your forehead. Most of us tried not to head it by moving ever so slightly out of position and then looking like we had tried to head it!!!
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Wimp
Or maybe wise
I remember having blurred vision after some headers not properly executed
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I vaguely remember my Dad having one. Clansman called it a Casey, as did my Dad. Was like kicking a sack of flour compared to today's footballs.
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Anyone remember the ‘Solar’ footballs with the dimples? Memories of St. Ted’s PE lessons on the gravel ‘All-Weather’ pitch. One of them on the inside of your leg on a cold December morning left an imprint for weeks!
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I reckon they should give one of these a go for a season.
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I remember the Casey - if it was raining and you had bits of the cover ripped off, it would soak into the ball and make it about 10 times heavier.
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Not in Bournemouth they’re not. No wonder they could afford Defoe.
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Hell fire! That would have cost me a fortune as a kid kicking them over into next door's back yard! They're not even proper Shoot ones!cricketfieldclarets wrote: ↑Wed Jul 29, 2020 8:24 pmNot in Bournemouth they’re not. No wonder they could afford Defoe.
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I remember them well. Only headed it once, never again!
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My dad reckoned Jimmy Mac headed one of the old balls on the lace once and had a headache for a week.
He said it put Jimmy right off heading. Before my time so I don't know if it did or not, but having played with a casey at school I could well understand it if it did.
He said it put Jimmy right off heading. Before my time so I don't know if it did or not, but having played with a casey at school I could well understand it if it did.
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I do indeed like the word dodecahedron -who doesn't, eh?- but what shape do you think 12 pentagons arranged into a polyhedron make?dougcollins wrote: ↑Wed Jul 29, 2020 9:52 pmThe panels look kind of curved pentagonal to me, not sure where you're seeing twelve sides.
Do you just like the word dodecahedron?
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https://www.google.com/search?q=dodecah ... e&ie=UTF-8dougcollins wrote: ↑Wed Jul 29, 2020 9:52 pmThe panels look kind of curved pentagonal to me, not sure where you're seeing twelve sides.
Do you just like the word dodecahedron?
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Nothing beat a good toe ender.
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Do any of you remember the slightly heavier plastic balls, black and white, with the team names on them (for some reason I remember Huddersfield town being one of them). This would be early 80s.
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Omg, wet casey balls, you only headed them once, then as stated above feigned trying to do so again. Ouch
The boots hurt like hell too!
The boots hurt like hell too!
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My wife was a Psychologist in Prestwich about 15 years ago and asked me if I knew an old footballer called Nathaniel.
I couldn`t think who he was and she went on to tell me about his dementia brought on by heading sodding great caseys and I said Nat Lofthouse!
He was a mess apparently as anyone who has had involvement with the disease will know
I couldn`t think who he was and she went on to tell me about his dementia brought on by heading sodding great caseys and I said Nat Lofthouse!
He was a mess apparently as anyone who has had involvement with the disease will know
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“Description - In geometry, a dodecahedron is any polyhedron with twelve flat faces.”
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“Try and pedantic”?
I wasn’t trying to be funny, but you’ll have to explain what I’ve said that wasn’t correct. A ball is not a dodecahedron, irrespective of the number and shape of the panels which make it up. Polyhedra have flat faces, as noted in your helpful link.