This is just brilliant. If you've got 7 minutes to spare.....

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    Micky Finn Well-Known Member

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    Blimey, that takes me back. When I was a kid, I tried Knur and Spell a few times on Dodworth Welfare. Most of the time, I'd totally miss it and corkscrew myself into the ground!:D However, when you did connect, it felt brilliant. Oh, and there was always an 'expert' close by, as old as Methuselah, quite happy to tell you in minute detail where you were going wrong, but never willing to give a practical demonstration.:D
     
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    Funnily enough I was channel hopping on TV here and caught the last few seconds of a programme where there was an item on a competition that looked exactly like nipsy that is still played here between rival hilltop communities. Unfortunately I didn't see the region in Italy where it is still played. 'Working mans golf' I always called it but a damn site harder as at least a golf ball stays put when you are trying to hit it. Rory McIlroy take note!!

    R&A should to introduce it into the modern game when teeing off, - would make it more interesting!
     
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    That 'Barnsley Contingent' were reight awkward buggers.
     
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    Last time I saw people competing in this was on the football pitch at Higham behind the church.
     
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    Barnsley moaners. LOL

    And the Olympics? Well good luck with that one mate. :D
     
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    My dad said they played it in Ackworth and Fitzwilliam, certainly sounds like the same game anyway but called nipsy.
     
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    They used to play nipsy in Worsbro Dale rec late 70s early 80s
     
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    Selwyn Schofueld now that's a proper name. Also ' chief swimming baths attendant '. Bit dodgy but funny all the same . Did I see Fred Trueman?
     
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    Blokes used to laik nipsy on pit field at Athersley North in 80's, back then I didn't even know it was a real game never mind had a name
     
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    I played with 2 that was on this film Tommy Chambers him with long hair and Mexican tash and the feller in the white jumper Ronnie Darlow at nipsy not Knur and Spell, Barnsley league champions 3 years on the trott.
     
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