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Don't think I ever had a branded football, just dodgy ones from local sports shops where the hexagons fell off one by one. And possibly cut you as they came loose and flapped about. A ball wasn't done with until it was basically a cloth bag with no panels around it at all :lol:

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Don't think I ever had a branded football, just dodgy ones from local sports shops where the hexagons fell off one by one. And possibly cut you as they came loose and flapped about. A ball wasn't done with until it was basically a cloth bag with no panels around it at all :lol:

 

Could get great curl on them when they reached that state. Uncontrolable but it looked great when it worked.

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Don't think I ever had a branded football, just dodgy ones from local sports shops where the hexagons fell off one by one. And possibly cut you as they came loose and flapped about. A ball wasn't done with until it was basically a cloth bag with no panels around it at all :lol:

 

Cut my forehead on one of those flaps one time taking a header on a rainy day.

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Don't think I ever had a branded football, just dodgy ones from local sports shops where the hexagons fell off one by one. And possibly cut you as they came loose and flapped about. A ball wasn't done with until it was basically a cloth bag with no panels around it at all :lol:

Nah, the ball would last until the orange balloon thing inside burst/stuck out like a hernia.

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Got one of these for Christmas along with a pair of Reusch keeper gloves and a goal for the back garden. Best Christmas ever.

 

http://www.lovelfc.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/profimedia-0001962736.jpg

 

A proper football.

 

:megusta:

 

Those little chevrons, remember always drawing them on when I drew footballs, they're just part what a ball is.

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There was something weirdly special about a Mitre Delta like. It's probably just me thinking that my generation is the best though. The France '98 ball was brilliant as well like, as I said before. It was just before they started going akka with them and they started swerving all over the place, but you could still get loads of curl on it.

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Don't think I ever had a branded football, just dodgy ones from local sports shops where the hexagons fell off one by one. And possibly cut you as they came loose and flapped about. A ball wasn't done with until it was basically a cloth bag with no panels around it at all :lol:

 

This one?

 

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Don't think I ever had a branded football, just dodgy ones from local sports shops where the hexagons fell off one by one. And possibly cut you as they came loose and flapped about. A ball wasn't done with until it was basically a cloth bag with no panels around it at all :lol:

 

This one?

 

B4DAiIwIEAALL9u.jpg

 

Ar memories man.

 

Get off me ball man, you'll pure egg it man!

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When the stitching used to start coming apart on the ball and the orange balloon inside became visible  :(

 

Still get a couple of days playing heads n volleys in the backlane with that.

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The tricolore from WC98 >>> *

 

http://www.soccer.com/channels/worldcup-ball-collection/img/france98.png

:thup:

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I'm starting to warm to Sherwood.

 

I mean, he's an idiot and whatnot, but he's at least our idiot. And he has some interesting ideas.

 

Last week at Sunderland, he put Rushian Hepburn-Murphy on for the last 15 mins or so. A 16 year old even people who watch our youth team had barely heard of.

 

I think what I like about Sherwood so far is he renders things at least very interesting.

 

He said this about it on our official site:

 

Tim Sherwood insists the inclusion of Rushian Hepburn-Murphy was his way of sending a message to the club's academy - and aspirational young players generally.

 

Sherwood was only too happy to reward the 16-year-old with a call-up - and eventual participation for the final few minutes at Sunderland.

 

He says this gives a signal to other starlets in the youth set-up that they, too, could get their chance if they work hard and impress.

 

But the boss insists it also shows young players generally that Villa is a place to flourish if you're good enough at an early age.

 

He said: "It's about bringing your own through.

 

"That's what I did at Tottenham and pretty much five of them are first on the team sheet every week now. That is a good success for Spurs.

 

"I took a few young boys up to Sunderland. Rushian has done very well.

 

"The youth set-up have told me he's done very well with the U18s. I said I would put him on the bench and if we were 3-0 up, I'd put him on.

 

"That was in my dreams. I didn't expect it to happen.

 

"Sometimes you need to send a message out to the academy - not only to the academy but to the local area.

 

"If you want to play and you want to play in someone's first team - even at a massive club like Aston Villa - you come to this place because I am going to give you an opportunity. No danger of that.

 

"If you are good enough no matter how young you are, you are going to play.

 

"Why would you waste your time going somewhere else? Come here!

 

"I know all the young boys here. They are good lads and very respectful.

 

"I tell them that every day they are on that training field and every time they put an Aston Villa shirt on that they are on trial. You never know who's watching!

 

"Rushian was fortunate it was him this time. It might be someone else next time."

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I'm starting to warm to Sherwood.

 

I mean, he's an idiot and whatnot, but he's at least our idiot.

 

 

:undecided: All that has just been said is valid, but I don't hate him. Surely it's a good thing to bring young players through? Stuffing the mackems like that made me warm to him too. I'm a bit conflicted with Villa, like, after the bedsheet brigade incident, so (no malice, Brummie) I'd like to see them go down and someone ask if Nigel fucking Kennedy or Prince fucking Wills is your next Messiah. Or the Lizard King Cameron. Also the wife has a wet spot for them as her first match was at the Holte End back in the 60s with some twat I haven't punched yet. :lol: So conflicted.

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