You usually had a line which you could volley the ball behind but headers were allowed from anywhere.

Goalkeeper catching the ball or a miss meant the person who shot (or mishit a pass) would go in.

Goalkeeper starts with 11 lives everyone else with 10 lives.

If 2 players are left on equal lives then a penalty shoot out decided the winner.

We use to call headers and volleys 'killer' no idea why.

At least I am assuming this is the game you are on about, we also use to play '60 seconds' which involved headers and volleys but the goalkeeper counting down from 60 seconds as well and a few other rules.

We played a game called 6-4s, you head to score 6 volleys and 4 headers to elimate whoever was in goal, Like lives I guess... If the keeper caught your attempt you'd go in goals etc.

Ohh and in our version when someone was on their final life you had to knock them out with a header, aside from that you could score however you wanted for the other lives.

We played one at school, some variation of heads and volleys, if you missed by shooting wide or over you'd go in goal or whatever the regular rule was, but if the keeper caught your shot you had to face the wall and let everyone smash a shot at your back-side one at a time

I remember everyone trying their best to tee up one particular kid to fail so we could get him on the wall for 'stingers' (also the name of said game). Kids are cruel

You usually had a line which you could volley the ball behind but headers were allowed from anywhere.

Goalkeeper catching the ball or a miss meant the person who shot (or mishit a pass) would go in.

Goalkeeper starts with 11 lives everyone else with 10 lives.

If 2 players are left on equal lives then a penalty shoot out decided the winner.

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These were our rules too.

We also played "2 touch"

2 players. Both stay on their own side of the pitch. If the ball comes onto your side, you have 2 touches to get it back onto the other players side. If you take more than 2 touches (hands included), you lose.

We also played a game called window potter..

We played "red arris".

Headers and volleys was the basic of it.

Can't volley inside the area, but trick shots like overheads or flying back heels were OK.

Volleys are 1 point.

Headers are 2.

Overhead kicks or trick shots were 3.

You missed the target, you went in goal.

The goalkeeper caught the ball with one hand, the last person to touch the ball beforehand went in goal.

Once the team reached 11 points, whoever's in goal stands on the goal line, turns around, and everyone takes a penalty into them.

We called headers and volleys 21's.. you had a line where you could only volley outside which was worth 3 points headers inside 1 point and headers outside 2 points. the aim was to get to 21 but if the keeper caught the Match point the player who took the shoot goes in goal and if not the keeper had to stay in for another round.. pretty brutal

Goalkeeper starts with 11 lives everyone else with 10 lives
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Unless it was getting late, then it was 6-5

Similar, we played 45s - all players start at 45. Heads and volleys only

Goals knocked 5 points off the keeper, catches (including from crosses) knocked 5 of the striker. Catches from headers counted for nothing. If the ball went wide, you'd lose 5 as an attacker, but over was fine.

Saves (as in knocking away) just served to extend the game and only affected points in the sense that no one lost any. First to 0 loses, loser goes/stays in goal. The points only reset for the person who hits 0, so chances are you're not in goal for long.

You could only shoot outside the 6yd box but you could head inside.

Might have missed a bit, been a while.

My favourite was cuppies / double cuppies.

Someone goes in goal and throws the ball out. Then it's every man/pair for himself/themselves and it works in rounds. First round you scored 1 goal, and you were through to the next round.

Then 2 for the second.

Then 3. Ect.

The last player/team who hadn't scored in a round was out.

If you ever won that game, you were exhausted.

We used to head and volley it in, no lives, no eliminating anyone, no points. Just a continuous round of people trying to head and volley goals and the keeper desperately trying to get out of goal by catching the ball.

we also played bums up which was one touch one bounce.. when you messed up you get a letter so B U M whoever spells bum stands in goal or against a wall and gets the ball smashed at them

comment by The Number 4 Shirt - We've signed Sneijder...lin! (U19487)
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My favourite was cuppies / double cuppies.

Someone goes in goal and throws the ball out. Then it's every man/pair for himself/themselves and it works in rounds. First round you scored 1 goal, and you were through to the next round.

Then 2 for the second.

Then 3. Ect.

The last player/team who hadn't scored in a round was out.

If you ever won that game, you were exhausted.
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We called it cuppies as well, some weird kids from the other school called it 'one man Wembo' and 'two man Wembo'. I'm presuming their playground was 'Wembo or Wembley'

comment by The Number 4 Shirt - We've signed Sneijder...lin! (U19487)
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My favourite was cuppies / double cuppies.

Someone goes in goal and throws the ball out. Then it's every man/pair for himself/themselves and it works in rounds. First round you scored 1 goal, and you were through to the next round.

Then 2 for the second.

Then 3. Ect.

The last player/team who hadn't scored in a round was out.

If you ever won that game, you were exhausted.
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I used to be a good keeper, so even with only 4 rounds it'd last the whole lunch break. Sometimes we'd just have to go to penalties to decide from the 2nd round because no one scored.

Tournies we used to call that number 4.

Absolutely loved a game of tournies and was generally one of the best of my friends so would usually feature in the final.

Sometimes you'd get through first every round and have far more energy for the final I remember a few times being the last person through every round getting to the final...

It was often me and my one friend getting to the final and by the final round it become a hell of a slog, many more long range shots much less running!

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comment by The Number 4 Shirt - We've signed Sneijder...lin! (U19487)
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My favourite was cuppies / double cuppies.

Someone goes in goal and throws the ball out. Then it's every man/pair for himself/themselves and it works in rounds. First round you scored 1 goal, and you were through to the next round.

Then 2 for the second.

Then 3. Ect.

The last player/team who hadn't scored in a round was out.

If you ever won that game, you were exhausted.
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We called it cuppies as well, some weird kids from the other school called it 'one man Wembo' and 'two man Wembo'. I'm presuming their playground was 'Wembo or Wembley'
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You from Yorkshire Mike? It's the only place I've ever known it called cuppies. Class game

Wembley was always a good game. Individually or in pairs. Player/teams that score go through to next round until there was a winner. Ahhh memories!!!

We used to play goalie on 11 everyone else on 10. Volleys had to be a certain distance out.
Volleys were one point, headers 2, diving headers 3 and overhead bycicle kicks 4.
If the shot goes over or wide; if you score without it being a volley; if you handball it twice; or if keeper catches the ball then a new person went in.
When a keeper lost all their lives they had to bend over and everyone took a penalty at their arsse

Anyone play 'knockout'?

1 player was the keeper. Everyone else, it was an individual free for all (sometimes we paired up for 'knockout doubles'.

If you scored you went through to the next round. 1 player in each round wouldn't score and thus would be knocked out, till you eventually got a winner.

fumble

all you need is a tennis ball and a wall

I vote the next Ja7s is actually just remade to a game of knockout

Whatever you want to call it, that was THE game as a kid if you ask me. You either didn't have enough people, or the teams weren't fair or whatever other reason that you couldn't play a proper game, but cuppies/Wembley ect, was always brilliant.

I love how everyone has different names for the same games in these tyes of articles

We called headers and volleys where if the 'keeper with a final life lets one in he gets the ball smashed at his backside red ass

Cuppies...forgot about them!

Thats some wildly convoluted ways to play football.

Headers and volleys for us was as simple as score with a header, score with a volley. Keeper catches either effort, or the cross and you go in nets.

Thats yer lot