Just a random thread..Fun times with a footy..

Remembering as kids when we used to have a reight good kickaround virtually every day..

Sometimes we would have enough for maybe 6 or 7 a side, then when we we short we used that bizarre rule of goalie when needed. That was just a licence for any player to dive and handball the ball to stop it going in the net claiming they were the goalie.. some good memories there.

If any adults used to join in, everyone seemed hell bent going in with the dirty fouls, two footed challenges...proper brutal.

Or playing one man web / knockout, where we had the one goalie and last person to score got eliminated.. plenty of laughs and the odd argument there lol..

Crossbar used to be good with two or three on each side at opposite sides of the goals..

Then there was a good old game of one kick in the school alcoves or against any wall we could find.

Also used to enjoy a game of Curby....

Any more that people used to play, or childhood memories of the same? Seems like you very rarely see kids out n about with a footy now with the advent of the games console, smartphones...shame..

 

Knocky web was a laugh. Then you got the goalie who let his mate score. **** you Daniel you *****.

 

Used to play Footy Cricket on Broomhead Road Wombwell .
Metal plate on the street light as the wicket , kicking the tennis ball away to get runs .

 

To me, the declining sight of massive groups of kids playing massive games with a tennis ball, or seeing groups of kids playing football agains a brick wall is one of the saddest aspects of todays society.

During the 6 week holidays, we used to be up at 8 o'clock-ish, watch Wak-a-day or whatever the school holiday morning show was at that point(Ghost Train was a personal favorite, then switch to Channel 4 for "Pugwall's Summer"), have some brekkie, fill as many old pop bottles up with water as we could find, kit and boots on then out and play football until it was too dark to play any more. Then we'd usually play a game of hide and seek or something until it was time to go in.

That was almost every morning of the holidays. Nowadays, my kids just can't be arsed to do anything that doesn't involve their phone or tablet. Really winds me up...

 

Yep, bit of 'Why Don't You' in the mornings then out into the fresh air, either footy or off out on the bikes.. Some classic bikes with yer BMX, Racers, Grifters, Choppers..lol

 

No telly when I was a kid. Out around 8am. Sixteen a side using telegraph poles and jumpers
as "nets " and a pigs bladder in an old leather Casey till around 12 o'clock ( half time). Nip home for beans on toast out again at around 1 o'clock. Break around 4pm home and run back with a mucky fat sandwich ( with salt on it) and laik till
around 6pm or till the winner was scored. Less than 38-37 and scoring ten myself and it had been a poor game.! Happy days.

 

Broomhead Rd - biggest potholes in Barnsley

 

Back out for 7pm and gather round nearest street light for a game of " Jack Jack shine a light"
or " Kick Can Tommy." Bed around 10pm healthily tired, up next day, breakfast and then same again
as yesterday.

 

Fox and hounds. No boundaries.

Used to get on jump circular bus and head into cue ball in town.

Never found us.

 

Cue Ball.. That brings back memories, those arcade games that they used to have. Which building was it in, seem to remember it being where that charity shop / Best Kebab takeaway is at present time next to the cinema?

 

We were just the same. Seemed to play football every day.

We often arranged 11 a sides with other groups of lads from different parts of Hemsworth.

Hemsworth tech field was where we used to play football, cricket or even just hang around. It's built on now, and when I drive down into the estate there just aren't the kids knocking about like back in the day.

Not that I drive about looking for kids like!

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Drove past Longbow playing fields at Darfield today. Proper sad sight. When we were kids there'd have been at least 5 full size football pitches on there, all always packed with kids playing football. Even had to sit and wait for a goal or pitch to become available for our 15 aside, or whatever, match sometimes.
Now it's just an overgrown mess coz all the kids are playing virtual Xbox football with their thumbs. No bruised shins or ripped tracky bottoms anymore.

 

It's such a shame. We had knives but we only used them for whittling bits of wood , our only weapons were catapults,
we could play football all day because the local beat bobbies kept an eye on us and there weren't any problems with paedos
and rapists because that now "extinct" part of our society re- the local Colliers would have got hold of 'em before the coppers and strung 'em up.

 

I grew up in the age where games consoles became big business. I was 8ish when I got my PS1 in the mid to late 90s. Before that I had a game boy also (which we used to 'play out' with anyway), but for me you couldn't beat a game of football on any rectangle shaped patch of grass or tarmac, and jumpers for goalposts.

The irony is that it's the generation who now say 'kids never play out these days' that stopped me and my mates from playing out in the first place. There was one old bloke who'd only let us play on the grass near his house if his grandson was playing with us. There was a woman who used to say we were using the side of her house to kick the ball against, (when we weren't), and then I went and put the neighbours greenhouse window through. So by the time I was about 14, I'd resorted to playing on the (by this time) PS2, because nobody would let us play football. Even if we went down to the park, some chav would steal our ball.

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Being brought up in a semi rural are (Walton) we didn't have a half term, merely a couple of days off, and as a result were blessed with 7 weeks and 3 days summer holiday. If the weather was fine, it would be over to Farmer Barr's field for cricket if the weather was dry. If it was wet the wellies were on, and we explored our surroundings, or went trainspotting at the bridge where the LNER track went under the LMS line on Oakenshaw Lane. Happy days.

 

Now or then ?

 

I agree with all this. I always used to be out joining in the football matches (being a lass, they'd only ever let be me goalie). There were 3 lovely patches of grass near my street but two of them (that were by far the best 'pitches') had 'No Ball Games' signs and the people who lived either side used to gleefully point to it and kick us off. We then used to play on the smaller 3rd bit of grass but the neighbours there would moan too and eventually got the council to put up a sign there. We then found a bit of concrete near the ice-cream garages that were perfect for a goal but the owner put up a 'no ball games, if caught you will be prosecuted' signs so that put an end to that. We weren't allowed to the park as it was too far away and over a busy road (plus full of older teenagers looking for trouble) so we'd end up kicking a ball about on street and getting shouted at as we were near people's cars. Couldn't win. Best bit was, we were a lovely bunch of polite, rule abiding kids too, we wouldn't know how to cause trouble to save our lives.

 

It used to knacker my bike up, now it buggers up suspension on my car....

 

Try walking .