Jumpers for goalposts.

[HEGGSY]

Cuppies, Prison Rules (Hack attack as Stan calls it) Heads and Volleys, 60 seconds, Red Arse , Crossbar Challenge

Still play them all when we go for a kick about, I'm lucky as I live a cross the road from the local park

Fvck it lets organise a massive game of FT cuppies lolNo one up for FT cuppies then

[Reynard Bleu]

The world has changed so much since the mid 1960's when I was playing football in the street and parks almost every spare minute I had. There are so many other opportunities for childen today. In 1968 when I was ten we had two b&W TV channels that started at tea-time and effectively ended for kids at 6 with the news, no Pc's no games consoles, no electronic wizardry at all except our record player and radiogamme. After school activities meant cubs, scouts or boys club. In addition, local junior football certainly influenced both my boys, both were useful players but hated the politics of junior football, coaches who had the badge, a big mouth but no brains and no idea how to teach kids, parents who would do anything to get their kid in to the team, then run on to the pitch if little Billy got a kick. They both went on to play Rugby Union and still do, much less shyte and of course wonderful social side. I still find it hard to watch them - wrong shaped ball and all that but I am glad they they left football behind.

[hairy]

My lad and his mates play all the time. They are 13. Most days after school they meet in the park and have a kick around.

[AyewJoking]

My lad and his mates play all the time. They are 13. Most days after school they meet in the park and have a kick around.

My little brother was the same, 3 years later all he cares about is motorbikes and going to the gym

[jonlcfc1990]

Winter was the best time to play football- slide tackles, covered in mud.

Brilliant times.

I remember a certain 11 vs 11 i had of mates footie at Vici park and it was in the rainy season of november and it just turned into a slide tackle royale it was epic! Certainly a fond memory coming home looking like a man in a ghillie mud suit

[Rincewind]

Never been physically built or proficient at sport but I grew up on one side of Belgrave Boulevard. Mowacre Hill on one side and I was on the Stocking Farm side next to a massive green. Had good games of footie and cricket on there even rounders. I was nearly always the last one to be picked for a team though even my younger sister was picked before me.

Strange but I remember one good thing I did when playing cricket . I was stuck right out on the outer boundaries as usual and bored probably with hands in my pockets or picking my nose, when I heard a shout, looked up and saw a cricket ball hurtling towards me. I fell over to one side and somehow the ball landed in one hand. Got a lot of pat on the backs that day. Never happened again though. It was back to weak throws to the wicket keeper allowing the batsman to run/walk seven or shouts of 'Wake up Ken'

[Tom17LCFC]

We were never allowed out in the playground at primary school when it rained, but as everyone's mentioned we'd all put down our jumpers and play when the weather was good. I remember once when we can't have been older than 7, when we didn't have a ball so tried to play with an imaginary one .

Used to love it in the summer as a kid, when all the boys would be out 'til it got dark just playing footie for hours! Don't see that anymore do you.

[The Doctor]

We were never allowed out in the playground at primary school when it rained, but as everyone's mentioned we'd all put down our jumpers and play when the weather was good. I remember once when we can't have been older than 7, when we didn't have a ball so tried to play with an imaginary one .

Used to love it in the summer as a kid, when all the boys would be out 'til it got dark just playing footie for hours! Don't see that anymore do you.

You must have been from the poorest neighbourhood in existence. Not even a foam ball or some rolled up socks?

[Webbo]

You must have been from the poorest neighbourhood in existence. Not even a foam ball or some rolled up socks?

When I was at college we made a ball out of rag and masking tape.

[Bayfox]

not sure that the lack of causal football as you put it, makes that much difference, I think that is made up for, by the amount of structured coaching that goes on now days, looking back I also think that the standard of coaching has improved as well, in my day it was just some ones dad running the team because he had the time, now with coaches having to have FA coaching qualifications that helps, if anything we should be bringing better players through the ranks.

I think the fact we have computers, tv's and a massive variety of things to do now is to blame.

It is sad not to see kids just going out for a kick about tho, we used to use jumpers or pushbike for 1 post and a Tree for the other on our local park, would spend hours playing cuppys or heads and volleys.

Also as school if we ever lost a football we would resort to a tennis ball or on occasions we have been know to tape 2 lids of bottled drinks together and kick them around the playground.

[Tom17LCFC]

You must have been from the poorest neighbourhood in existence. Not even a foam ball or some rolled up socks?

nah at primary school this was! Really wanna go out and play football now though if I wasn't hanging so badly. How times change.

[HEGGSY]

No one up for FT cuppies then?

[ScouseFox]

Going for a kickabout right now. We're all 17/18/19

[Corky]

If you're going to go in studs first, make it two-footed.

[Rincewind]

Childhood Games

The icy snow sparkles in the midday sun

As we glide down on cardboard toboggans.

Scarves wrapped thrice around our necks.

Overcoats buttoned to the top.

We feel no pain as we tumble off.

Just laugh and run for another go.

In the distance other children are skiing

Planks tied to their feet, sticks in hands.

Younger children have built a snowman

Coal taken from parents' bunkers for eyes.

A by-pass now runs through our playground.

A mass of green used for childhood games.

Traffic cones line our Salome run.

Cars skid where we used to slide.

Lorries drive between our goalposts.

Where a fantastic goal was scored.

.And where a superb six was hit,

Road markings show us the boundary.

Progress has left us with childhood memories

The new generation will never see.

© Copyright 2010 Ken P Duddle (UN: nightguard at Writing.Com). All rights reserved.

[Ilkeston_Fox]

I used to go to school EARLY just to play football. I had 3 paper rounds (one morning, one after school and the other on a Sunday), after I'd finished my morning paper round I'd go home get showered and get straight off to school, I used to get there for around 7:50am, have an hour of football then start school. Football in the morning break, football at lunchtime and football in the afternoon break. I'd then go home after school, get changed, do my afternoon paper round and then go on the park after (using my bag as a goal post when we had nothing better to use) to play yet more football, it's all we seemed to do.

Ahh they were the days my friend....

[FoxesAreBlue]

Used to have a kick about on "the green" as we called it - we had a tree for a post and had to make the other post out of jumpers, bikes, bags or upside-down bikes etc.

Interestingly there was a dog bin just in front of the tree so if you hit the post and scored it counted but hit the shit can first and it didn't!

Also if you kicked it over a fence into a garden, (after you had scaled the dizzy heights of the 6ft wooden fences to get it back - always easier to get back out mind cos of a supporting beam on the inside) you were automatically shoved in goal

[lavrentis]

This still goes on I think people just want to make this into a 'England was better back in my day' thing. Kids still play football where I am from, and yes they use jumpers for goalposts.

[GLC]

When I was younger, we played all the time. Whether it was raining, snowing or sunshine.

We also played a lot of cricket, with gaffer tape on half of a tennis ball to make it spin (which worked) and a motor cross helmet as protection, (the wickets were about 7 yards away)

[Saxondale]

Spoke to my misses about this (she's a primary school teacher).

At her school, the kids can play football on in the summer when they let them out on the field. They can't play in the winter when the kids are confined to the playground because apparently it would be too crowded and the other kids would get hit by balls.

Told how ludicrous it is and she told me how it's because so many of the kids' parents are whinging mouthy fvckers these days who want to sue the school, teachers and government every time their pathetic kid grazes their knee.

[Trav Le Bleu]

Spoke to my misses about this (she's a primary school teacher).

At her school, the kids can play football on in the summer when they let them out on the field. They can't play in the winter when the kids are confined to the playground because apparently it would be too crowded and the other kids would get hit by balls.

Told how ludicrous it is and she told me how it's because so many of the kids' parents are whinging mouthy fvckers these days who want to sue the school, teachers and government every time their pathetic kid grazes their knee.

So who do they blame when this happens anywhere else?

[Daggers]

Trav - the biggest problems I used to face on a daily basis at the last four schools were arguments about football - either something during a kickabout or who's turn it was for the pitch or someone dicking about with the ball.

Playground football lives.

[The Doctor]

nah at primary school this was! Really wanna go out and play football now though if I wasn't hanging so badly. How times change.

In primary school we either played with a little foam ball, one of those pub play-area ball pit balls, if we could steal one from the PE shed an airflow ball or failing all - 4 jumpers went as goalposts and the rest were all tied up into a ball.

Your imaginary ball was just poor work.

[Corky]

I scored one goal at first school- left-footed scuff in off the far tree.

Memorable moment.

[skinnydipper]

One of the things I remember with jumpers for goalposts is the arguments when a shot would pass over the top of the jumper

The attacking team would claim it went in off the post and the defending team would claim no goal

These disputes rumbled on as the game continued with there rarely being an agreed score at the end of the match