When you played footie in the park

Guller Bull · Post by **Guller Bull** » Mon Jun 27, 2022 10:20 pm

or on the street who were you?

I was always Leighton James or Paul Fletcher.

burnmark · Post by **burnmark** » Mon Jun 27, 2022 10:28 pm

Lineker, Comstive, Eyres.

Im_not_Robbie_Blake · Post by **Im_not_Robbie_Blake** » Mon Jun 27, 2022 10:30 pm

I made up a whole team's worth of imaginary players so I could play in any position. My captain was called Peter Jackson (no, not the ex Bradford City player or the film director, just a figment of my own imagination).

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Mon Jun 27, 2022 10:30 pm

Last to be picked

I was sh*t at Footie

Flixtonclaret1 · Post by **Flixtonclaret1** » Mon Jun 27, 2022 10:38 pm

Billy Rodaway

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Mon Jun 27, 2022 10:38 pm

Joe Corrigan....but I was better than him.

bfcjg · Post by **bfcjg** » Mon Jun 27, 2022 10:39 pm

Dobson.

Devils_Advocate · Post by **Devils_Advocate** » Mon Jun 27, 2022 10:42 pm

Jimmy Phillips...legend

gawthorpe_view · Post by **gawthorpe_view** » Mon Jun 27, 2022 10:44 pm

Bobby Charlton.

Alanstevensonsgloves · Post by **Alanstevensonsgloves** » Mon Jun 27, 2022 10:47 pm

Dobson..... Unless I was in goal

Vegas Claret · Post by **Vegas Claret** » Mon Jun 27, 2022 10:49 pm

I was booting a balloon around the front room earlier, I was Ashley Barnes. I elbowed the table, fell over when the Mrs walked by me and then I was Scott Twine bending the balloon into the top corner at Ewood Park from the resulting free kick !

Pearcey · Post by **Pearcey** » Mon Jun 27, 2022 10:49 pm

Coppell, Keegan, Hoddle, Dalgish.

jdrobbo · Post by **jdrobbo** » Mon Jun 27, 2022 10:58 pm

Thomas Hassler, Roberto Mancini, Gianluca Pagliuca, Mark Hughes and of course, David Eyres.

HunterST_BFC · Post by **HunterST_BFC** » Mon Jun 27, 2022 11:13 pm

Keegan

I didn't know it the time or care - but beans on toast, egg on toast, cheese on toast etc became almost daily teatime.
Couple of days before birthday went shopping with Mum, took a diversion to Sport shop - one I always liked looking in, one I spent my saved earned pocket money in on Subbuteo stuff - the odd team (a big buy) sticky numbers, a winter ball, spring goalkeeper etc...

That Day I came out with my 1st New (not handed down from cousons) football boots.
I got to pick them.
Patrick.

Those two stripes made me Keegan,
The leather boots were my pride, polished after use back to new for months. Naturally they were bought "a size or two bigger so I would get longer use from them". Actually wore double socks and packed some of the toe end with loo roll. Sort of a Keegan Penguin.

On my Birthday, Pork Chop, Mash and Peas + Patrick boots.

Next purchase from the shop a few months later... Studs

I've Still got the shoe box.
Inside it, Test MatchCricket pieces - Remember that? String on a Hoover Bat etc.

Back then, With two strpe boots Keegan I now was.

ChrisG · Post by **ChrisG** » Mon Jun 27, 2022 11:18 pm

Marlon Beresford, then Paul Crichton as I got a bit older.

BFCmaj · Post by **BFCmaj** » Mon Jun 27, 2022 11:18 pm

Chris Pearce

Belial · Post by **Belial** » Mon Jun 27, 2022 11:22 pm

'Charlton today. Dennis Law's in the wash this week'

Taffy on the wing · Post by **Taffy on the wing** » Mon Jun 27, 2022 11:32 pm

gawthorpe_view wrote: ↑
Mon Jun 27, 2022 10:44 pm
Bobby Charlton.

We used to play slam against the mill gate....i was always Bobby Charlton.

ClaretWot4 · Post by **ClaretWot4** » Mon Jun 27, 2022 11:36 pm

I was always Jimmy Greaves (what a superb finisher he was) ah memories

ElectroClaret · Post by **ElectroClaret** » Mon Jun 27, 2022 11:43 pm

Tommy Smith, Chopper Harris...it gave me licence to cripple my mates.

chorleyhere · Post by **chorleyhere** » Tue Jun 28, 2022 12:07 am

John Angus - hero of mine when I was at Marsden County Primary School in the 1960s.

vancouverclaret · Post by **vancouverclaret** » Tue Jun 28, 2022 12:31 am

Colin Waldron I was playing on the school team and after I took a shot that rebounded off the bar the referee that was from their school called me Colin Bell, I corrected him, Colin Waldron I said.

bobinho · Post by **bobinho** » Tue Jun 28, 2022 6:17 am

gawthorpe_view wrote: ↑
Mon Jun 27, 2022 10:44 pm
Bobby Charlton.

Were you in “Kes”?

Burnley1989 · Post by **Burnley1989** » Tue Jun 28, 2022 7:18 am

Always Andy Payton, occasionally Dennis Wise or Michael Owen

I’m 33 now and the lads at footy still claim to be a certain player before we start our 6aside league games

williamjblazkowicz · Post by **williamjblazkowicz** » Tue Jun 28, 2022 7:22 am

Robbie Fowler (I was a Liverpool fan until I went to my first Burnley game at the age of 10 or 11!).

Quicknick · Post by **Quicknick** » Tue Jun 28, 2022 7:25 am

Quicknick, playing for Burnley.

alboclaret · Post by **alboclaret** » Tue Jun 28, 2022 7:38 am

Quicknick wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 28, 2022 7:25 am
Quicknick, playing for Burnley.

I was always just myself who had made it.

Nonayforever · Post by **Nonayforever** » Tue Jun 28, 2022 7:43 am

Alan Ball. I was small and fast, never stopped running.
I had the yellow and blue away kit which I loved but never managed to buy the white boots.

Hipper · Post by **Hipper** » Tue Jun 28, 2022 7:44 am

gawthorpe_view wrote: ↑
Mon Jun 27, 2022 10:44 pm
Bobby Charlton.

In 1962 or thereabouts, we were first let out on the grass pitches at junior school during our sports period. We just played on our own - no teacher. The ball came to me in my own half and I just whacked it as hard as I could towards the opponents goal. It bounced about four times, the goalie who was useless fell over and the ball bounced over him and into the goal - no nets of course. When we got back to the classroom to change the teacher came up to me and said 'I hear you scored a Bobby Charlton'. I'd no idea what that was, some technical term I assumed!

Herts Clarets · Post by **Herts Clarets** » Tue Jun 28, 2022 7:46 am

Nonayforever wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 28, 2022 7:43 am
Alan Ball. I was small and fast, never stopped running.
I had the yellow and blue away kit which I loved but never managed to buy the white boots.

Nowadays its more of a mission to buy black football boots.....

Guller Bull · Post by **Guller Bull** » Tue Jun 28, 2022 7:51 am

Herts Clarets wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 28, 2022 7:46 am
Nowadays its more of a mission to buy black football boots.....

I still play walking football 2/3 times a week. I managed to get a pair of all black astroturf boots. When I used them the first time the rest of the lads were gobsmacked and intrigued as to where I got them.

ŽižkovClaret · Post by **ŽižkovClaret** » Tue Jun 28, 2022 8:44 am

Depends, if i smashed one in it was Yeboooooooooaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh

ClaretMov · Post by **ClaretMov** » Tue Jun 28, 2022 8:56 am

Johan Cruyff
Kevin Keegan
Kenny Dalglish
Martin Dobson
Paul Fletcher
Leighton James........all depended on the day

fatboy47 · Post by **fatboy47** » Tue Jun 28, 2022 9:35 am

Willie Morgan.

Chipping em over for my mate Lochhead to head in.

RMutt · Post by **RMutt** » Tue Jun 28, 2022 9:58 am

Nonayforever wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 28, 2022 7:43 am
Alan Ball. I was small and fast, never stopped running.
I had the yellow and blue away kit which I loved but never managed to buy the white boots.

White Hummel boots. I got a pair for Christmas. My first with screw in studs too. One of the presents I’ve never forgot.

claretonthecoast1882 · Post by **claretonthecoast1882** » Tue Jun 28, 2022 10:20 am

Zico

He was cool as well as very good

Rammy1968 · Post by **Rammy1968** » Tue Jun 28, 2022 11:30 am

Trevor Steven or Billy Hamilton

TomtheClaret · Post by **TomtheClaret** » Tue Jun 28, 2022 12:48 pm

Jimmy Mac. Too young to have seen him play but my dad and uncles made him sound like god in a footie shirt

Silkyskills1 · Post by **Silkyskills1** » Tue Jun 28, 2022 2:05 pm

Flixtonclaret1 wrote: ↑
Mon Jun 27, 2022 10:38 pm
Billy Rodaway

SHP you'll have to tell Bill the next time you see him. He'll love this.

bfcmik · Post by **bfcmik** » Tue Jun 28, 2022 4:30 pm

I always said I was Ray Pointer then Andy Lochhead but the other players always said I was too dirty to be anyone but Chopper Harris or Brian O'Neil.

Goalposts · Post by **Goalposts** » Tue Jun 28, 2022 4:55 pm

Cryuff - Neeskins. Jonny rep.. I loved the Dutch side circa 74

DukeOfBar · Post by **DukeOfBar** » Tue Jun 28, 2022 5:03 pm

Remco Van Der Schaaf - always had my excuses ready upfront

Silkyskills1 · Post by **Silkyskills1** » Tue Jun 28, 2022 5:29 pm

Goalposts wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 28, 2022 4:55 pm
Cryuff - Neeskins. Jonny rep.. I loved the Dutch side circa 74

Agree. They were a breath of fresh air and ultimately lost the final to West Germany because of their arrogance and in at least one case, hatred of the opposition that came from midfielder Wim van Hanegem.

Buxtonclaret · Post by **Buxtonclaret** » Tue Jun 28, 2022 6:31 pm

Willy Morgan.
Then Ralphy after he'd been sold.
Thnik I'd have been Dobo after Ralph was sold, but by then i was leaving school.

. . . Us young 'uns under Lord Bob probably had to change our playground personas more than most . . . .

Claretitus · Post by **Claretitus** » Tue Jun 28, 2022 6:49 pm

Ray Deakin. Whhhooooooooooooosssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

Cirrus_Minor · Post by **Cirrus_Minor** » Tue Jun 28, 2022 6:51 pm

Ralphy voo!!

Middle-agedClaret · Post by **Middle-agedClaret** » Tue Jun 28, 2022 6:58 pm

Willie Irvine.
Yes - I am that old…

ChrisG · Post by **ChrisG** » Tue Jun 28, 2022 7:06 pm

Silkyskills1 wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 28, 2022 2:05 pm
SHP you'll have to tell Bill the next time you see him. He'll love this.

Slightly O/T but how is Billy doing nowadays? He got my dad in as fitness coach at Halifax Town when he was assistant manager there circa 1997.

Last time I saw Billy was my dad's funeral, some 16 years ago.

Steve-Harpers-perm · Post by **Steve-Harpers-perm** » Tue Jun 28, 2022 10:38 pm

ChrisG wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 28, 2022 7:06 pm
Slightly O/T but how is Billy doing nowadays? He got my dad in as fitness coach at Halifax Town when he was assistant manager there circa 1997.

Last time I saw Billy was my dad's funeral, some 16 years ago.

He’s doing well and visits this way for family and to catch up with his old teammates! He always manages a few home games on the Turf each season.

ChrisG · Post by **ChrisG** » Tue Jun 28, 2022 11:17 pm

Steve-Harpers-perm wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 28, 2022 10:38 pm
He’s doing well and visits this way for family and to catch up with his old teammates! He always manages a few home games on the Turf each season.

Brilliant stuff, if you see him, tell him Tommy Gildert's lads (my brother Anthony posts on here occasionally) were asking about him