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25 minutes ago, Kid Icarus said:

 

I think we maybe only did this, but any volleys caught (and held) by the 'keeper, without it touching the ground meant the volleying player goes straight in nets, regardless of any score.

 

Was like an equaliser thing to stop scores racking up keeping someone in net forever, and forced you to take shots that could only be saved but not caught.

 

We did this too, I forgot to include it on my list of rules. Keeper would immediately throw it up for an easy header for someone but risked the new keeper just catching it and them immediately returning to being in nets.

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19 minutes ago, TheBrownBottle said:

I can vaguely remember that game - didn’t West Ham score a really late winner?  I can remember the crowd being really angry.  I was a kid and there with my dad in the family enclosure

Aye, that was it! My first full season going only with me mates. Good times. Shite football though :lol:

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1 hour ago, Big River said:

 

aye we played it like that too

 

and it was singles/doubles no "Wembley" prefix

 

rush keeper was known as fog man back :lol:

world cup singles in NE38, rarely got close to grass though was usually in a factory car park or something.

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I'm looking at what Soccer Camps are available during the summer for my 13-year-old son.

 

I'm looking at England, Germany*, Italy*, Spain* and Portugal* that don't cost a lot. If you look at the big clubs' camps, it's €3-4,000 for a week without travel.

 

Does anyone have any tips on camps that are good and under €1,000 for 5-7 days. I suspect you're paying a lot just because the camp is called City, Bayern and Benfica.

 

*English speaking

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2 hours ago, madras said:

Youth team keeper in for Norwich wasn't it ? 3rd or 4th choice at least.

 

 

 

 

Andy Marshall. Was his breakthrough season I think.

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2 hours ago, joeyt said:

Proposition to bring back heads and volleys instead of fucking padel

 

Would love to bring back the keepy-ups game we used to play (called "Elims") 

 

Players stand in a circle, ball is thrown to someone to start. You can have as many touches as you like, once the ball has touched three different players it's "away" or "live". Everyone has three lives. If the ball hits the ground the last player to touch it loses a life, unless someone blatantly dodges taking a touch when they could have done in which case they lose the life. The ball bouncing off walls, curbs, lamp-posts, cars or anything other than the actual floor means it's still live. Anyone who runs out of lives stands outside the circle, if they can play an errant ball back into the circle and it gets three touches from different players they're back in on 1 life again. This continues til you have 3 players left at which point people can't get back in again and it goes to a final two for a winner. Hopefully my explanation has done it justice as it was class if you played in an enclosed area with plenty things for the ball to bounce off of.

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13 minutes ago, Lazarus said:

Bring back kerbs. Or kerby. or whatever you called it. 

Not enough kerbs to hit thesedays. Too many bastard cars

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57 minutes ago, ramirez said:

SPOT was another good football based game in the concrete jungle of washy.

 

What did it stand for again?

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5 minutes ago, joeyt said:

 

What did it stand for again?

 

Didn't stand for anything iirc? Was just you had to hit a certain spot no?

 

The spot being a giant wall usually 

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Ah yes of course that was it

 

For some reason I thought it was an acronym and you had to spell out SPOT. Like P would stand for post, and O would stand for Overhead

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1 hour ago, ramirez said:

world cup singles in NE38, rarely got close to grass though was usually in a factory car park or something.

 

We called (call) it cuppies (single or double). 

 

Still play spot and kerby with the lad.

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4 hours ago, TheBrownBottle said:

I can vaguely remember that game - didn’t West Ham score a really late winner?  I can remember the crowd being really angry.  I was a kid and there with my dad in the family enclosure

 

4 hours ago, Drewboy74 said:

Think the relegation season of 88-89 stands out for me. Maybe the Sweeney game I'm thinking of, was a game against West Ham, late on in the season. I definitely took part in a sit down protest in the Gallowgate!

 

Was just thinking about that match yesterday in a discussion about Brown Ale. Its synonymous with the smell for me, the brewery nearby, the denizens, the Gallowgate bogs - walking up the steps all carried on a lovely warm pinkening spring evening about to be completely ruined by the football.

It was about my tenth game and at the back of the sparsely populated Gallowgate right next to people setting fires to scarfs and shirts chanting "die United, die United"

 

I remember Sweeney being ripped to shreds by Jimmy Carter for Millwall in the 90/91 season. Was in the paddock close to it - put you off being a footballer being on the recieving end of that. Was the worst one on one mauling I'd seen until Ginola v Cox. 

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2 hours ago, Scoot said:

 

 

 

Sloppiest of AI slop. Just murder anyone who produces shit like it, humanity will be better for the outcome.

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2 hours ago, Wilson said:

Kerbsy. 

 

Double points if you smash the kerb and catch the rebound with one hand. 

Best thing about kerbs was when one player was way behind and started asking "how many points if I get it from here?"

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The amount of gutters smashed on garages round ours was insane, at one point we used the crates from 'the factories' to make a very dodgy dugout on our main field, and even corner flags for the purposes of Uwe Rosler and Roger Milla style antics., 

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