The Good Old Days Playing Football

[Paranoid]

Playing on Trawden Rec with black bin liners under our shirts to attempt protection against the gale and horizontal rain!!!

[dsr]

Scorcher, then Tiger, then Eagle.

The Beano character was Ball Boy.

"Scorcher" became "Scorcher and Score", then "Tiger and Scorcher", before probably dropping the "Scorcher" bit as I got too old for it. Or at least, as I stopped having it bought for me by my Dad.

You thought Roy Race had a long career. Billy Dane (see - I know his name!) played for thirty years and never left school.

[Cliviger Academicals]

Playing somewhere near Bacup on a pitch resembling the north face of the Matterhorn in a swirling snowstorm and having your centre half convinced he had just seen a woolly mammoth on the moors in the distance!

[piston broke]

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.

Off thread.
Never played football in front of Jackie but he used to come down New Hall Hey for workshop cricket and give the umpires abuse for not giving lbws and he was stood behind the square leg boundary.

[IanMcL]

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.

Alf Tupper was the miler from the Victor, who ran on fish and chips.

[IanMcL]

Heading the laces! Ouch!

Dubbin

[Steve1956]

Marking out the pitch with sawdust.

[paulus the woodgnome]

Pathetic green cotton goalie "gloves".

[IanMcL]

Gloves? You had gloves?!!!!

[LordBob]

Off thread.
Never played football in front of Jackie but he used to come down New Hall Hey for workshop cricket and give the umpires abuse for not giving lbws and he was stood behind the square leg boundary.

Ha Ha yeah that was typical Jackie I think everyone in Rossendale probably has a story to tell about him and if he was still with us the legendary Paul Witney would have more stories than most. These 2 people are really missed, I reckon you could post a few pages on Jackie David Bumble Lloyd devoted almost half a chapter to Jackie and his Lancashire league exploits in his first book.

[paulus the woodgnome]

Gloves? You had gloves?!!!!

Yes, Ian. If you can call them gloves. Must have been about 1973 I think. Very hi tech

[IanMcL]

Obviously wealthy!

[groove]

Sitting on your mates shoulders while hooking the netting over the goal post. Netting weighed down with bricks.

[IanMcL]

Sitting on your mates shoulders while hooking the netting over the goal post. Netting weighed down with bricks.

Another posh ond - gloves, nets, what ever next? Proper kit?

[dsr]

Another posh ond - gloves, nets, what ever next? Proper kit?

They'll be telling us they had a ball, next.

[IanMcL]

What's wrong with an old tin can?

[dsr]

What's wrong with an old tin can?

Exactly. The hours of fun I had with my mates kicking an old tin can around. In bare feet. On gravel.

[IanMcL]

Gravel? That's posh!

[Brunlea]

Cherryfold (I think) p..ssing down with rain and getting hit in the bo..ocks by a wet heavy leather ball! Happy days!!

[paulus the woodgnome]

Gravel? We used to dream of playing on gravel.

[Saxoman]

I sent James beattie sprawling a few times in his pre pro footballer days.

[Holmeclaret]

Pathetic green cotton goalie "gloves".

Ha, ha, remember those. About as much use as a thin coat of green paint, especially against a sodden leather 'casey'.

[TVC15]

Cherryfold (I think) p..ssing down with rain and getting hit in the bo..ocks by a wet heavy leather ball! Happy days!!

Not to mention the pitch being sprinkled with glass and dog sh-it !!

[TVC15]

"Scorcher" became "Scorcher and Score", then "Tiger and Scorcher", before probably dropping the "Scorcher" bit as I got too old for it. Or at least, as I stopped having it bought for me by my Dad.

You thought Roy Race had a long career. Billy Dane (see - I know his name!) played for thirty years and never left school.

Loved Tiger & Scorcher and Billy’s Boots was great. Remember during the cricket season he has a special pair of magic cricket boots didn’t he ?!!!
It was this time every Saturday morning 40+ years ago I would get my pocket money and walk down to Rammies (for all you Manchester road lot) and buy T & S and a bag of sweets.

Now do you remember some of the other stories in T & S and the follow up Roy of the Rovers ? How about Nipper ? Or Safest Hands in Soccer (was it Andy Stewart ?)

[CharlieinNewMexico]

Hot Shot Hamish!

[IanMcL]

The nails in your wooden studs, suddenly picking the sole of your foot, when the boot has worn down.

[IanMcL]

Walking home clattering your boots on the ground.
Walking indoors with muddy boots on and leaving a big dollop of mud with holes in it, on the floor!
Trouble from mum!

[IanMcL]

Jock strap anyone?

[dsr]

Loved Tiger & Scorcher and Billy’s Boots was great. Remember during the cricket season he has a special pair of magic cricket boots didn’t he ?!!!
It was this time every Saturday morning 40+ years ago I would get my pocket money and walk down to Rammies (for all you Manchester road lot) and buy T & S and a bag of sweets.

Now do you remember some of the other stories in T & S and the follow up Roy of the Rovers ? How about Nipper ? Or Safest Hands in Soccer (was it Andy Stewart ?)

Skid Solo - motor racing
Bobby of the Blues (played for Everpool - no idea where that name came from!!)
Johnny Cougar - an American Indian wrestler whose pidgin English would certainly not be published today!
There was one about a masked goalkeeper as well, with a hidden identity. Was that safest hands in soccer? Or was it a different one that came and went?
And I remember one about another goalkeeper, who got sent back in time by 100 years to the days when men were men and goalkeepers were scared!

[TVC15]

What about Tommy Troubles and Martin’s Mini (or something like that ?)