comment by Carefree since 1988 (U12148)
posted 1 minute ago
"Headers and Volleys" was the normal for us, but would be renamed to "Bum Slaps" if it involved a punishment for losing.
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You went to Jay's school? I guess it was his ball too, thus his rules
I'm pretty sure we invented the terms 'Demon Run' and 'Ultimate Demon Run' for our games of Headers and Volleys.
If I remember correctly, a Demon Run was when you made it to six goals and the score was reset to zero, giving the unfortunate keeper a chance to get out of goal.
An Ultimate Demon Run was when you went all the way from zero to six without ever once losing a goal (through being caught by the goalkeeper or putting the ball wide).
comment by Manfrombelmonty (U1705)
posted 53 seconds ago
why was everyone so fascinated with slapping each others behinds?
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Indeed
We had the post saves all rule too
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Wall-ee
3 or 4 people aim for a small wall, if you miss it 3 times, you're out. Last man standing wins. Harder than it sounds. Get extra lives for really fancy curl shots if the coont before you did a coont shot.
Curb-ee. 2 people stand on each pavement, and either throw or kick the ball at each others curb. If it hits it, and rebounds to you, you stand in the middle of the road and throw the ball at the curb till you miss it. If you do miss, and your opponent gets the ball and hits you with it before you get to your pavement, they get all your points. Bonus points if you throw it over a car as it drives by (and you have to hit the curb, obviously).
Wembley. Try and lob each other into the goals, you can't go into your area.
Standard headers and volleys.
I feel old
At school We'd mainly play 'smokers V' basically like a normal 5 or 6 a side game on average, but it would be those who smoked verses those who didn't. Haha. It always seemed really fair teams. I was in the non smokers. We had less skill, but more stamina! Ha. This was around years 9 to 11. Then we stopped that during in sixth form, as rather predictably all the smokers left at 16!
Other than that we played, Wembley doubles. Or if there weren't enough for a game, we'd do keepy upies in a circle and try beat our last break record.
Used to love school for that reason. I miss playing football all the time. I play 5 a side still now twice a week. But nothing beats those lunch time games!
Curb-ee. 2 people stand on each pavement, and either throw or kick the ball at each others curb. If it hits it, and rebounds to you, you stand in the middle of the road and throw the ball at the curb till you miss it. If you do miss, and your opponent gets the ball and hits you with it before you get to your pavement, they get all your points. Bonus points if you throw it over a car as it drives by (and you have to hit the curb, obviously).
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I mentioned "Kerby" the other week on another similar thread but nobody had any knowledge of it
We played one which some genius must have invented. Basically there was a massive wall, about 20 foot high. Started with how ever many people were there. Can't remember how we decided the order, I think we did it by age. You weren't allowed to hit the black but of the wall which was at the bottom but could hit any other part of the wall. If somebody missed, they went in 'goal' which is to say they guarded the 20ft wall . There were tactics involved of course and you tried to hit the wall at an angle to make sure the next person had a difficult shot. I was got hit full blast up the kisser when I was in goal. That was painful but injuries ranged from pulled hamstrings, broken fingers to legs cut open due to falling on glass. There were also a few times cars flew in(people from the other side, those from Northern Ireland will get what I mean) and those who weren't quick or lucky enough were hit by flying glass bottles.
So yeah all in all it was quiet a good game.
Played quite a bit of spot, or wall ee as some are calling it.
Me and my friends had a variation we would play in a kids playground called blue net which added a bit more variety to the game.
You know those cargo type nets you get in kids playgrounds above the floor?
Usually separate a little set of steps on one side and a slide on the other or something.
Well basically we would use that thing to play spot or wall ee against, which it being in a playground that were lots of obstacles around the place (like swings) and the thing also had a fence around it so if you played the right shot the person ended up going outside the fence to take a shot.
The holes were too small for the ball to go through but you could chip the ball inside the net (going over the top of the net) which we used to take a letter off.
As the net had a gap underneath you never actually knew where you'd be taking your shot from so you had to be well on your toes!
Also from the sounds of it me and my friends were a lot more lax as if you couldn't see the net or had some impossible shot you would be given two touches (one to set yourself and second touch is your shot)
The blue net was the only part that counted the rest of the apparatus around it (including the frame) didn't count.
https://abundantlifechildren.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/img_3521.jpg
Looked a bit like that except it went down a little bit lower to the ground and probably wasn't quite as long.
comment by The Number 4 Shirt - We've signed Sneijder...lin! (U19487)
posted 2 hours, 26 minutes ago
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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this, apart from we called it world cup singles or doubles.
and yeah the winner was normally fked at the end
also fouling football was great fun, about 20 of us playing, the guy who has the ball gets destroyed by everyone else, you did get guys who never tried to get the ball but wheres the fun in that?
the winner was normally fked at the end
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Slapping bums was bad, but this is outrageous.
you can only imagine how dirty it got
Headers and volleys! Haven't played that in about 15 years!
Generally we played it on 'the square' opposite our primary school (It wasn't actually square-shaped, and it's now facking houses) and the goal was painted onto a wall which ran along part of one of the sides of the 'square'.
I think we all had 5 lives (someone used to start with 6 but I can't remember how or why), and you could only header in the area, volleys had to be outside. If you shot wide, over, the keeper caught the ball or you touched the ball last before it went out of bounds, you went in goal.
The ultimate test was when the keeper set you up for 'a tempter', which was when he'd throw the ball out to you with as much spin on it as possible and see who'd take on the volley, those with the tekkers took it on, those who didn't would bottle it!
Headers and volleys ended with "stingers", where who ever conceded the last goal had to stand with their back to everyone else who would take it in turns to kick the ball at them.
Volleys that went wide, over or were caught meant going in goal, there term "volley" was quite loose though, you could throw the ball at someone who wasn't looking, catch it and that would count as a "volley".
Other games, were One Bounce, you'd stand in a circle and keep the ball moving only letting it bounce once, if you messed up then it was ten push ups, Kerby was another, take it in turns to throw the ball at the kerb....
World Cup doubles, standard at school, WC Singles, not as good IMO, didn't like the name "Wembley", didn't really make sense.
Wally (Wall-e?), was a good game, kick the ball against the wall and where ever it landed the next person, usually done alphabetically, had to try and kick it against the wall, if you couldn't dig it out, you were out, good way of deciding who would go in goal first for heads and volleys.
I forgot Wembley/World Cup singles and doubles. Even though I was pretty good at football, I managed to get through the first couple of rounds by way of Inzaghi-like goalhanging! Would loiter near the goal and pounce on any loose balls or just deflect the ball in
When it got to the business end of the game I'd then start playing properly and actually score some more legit goals!
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 1 hour, 21 minutes ago
the winner was normally fked at the end
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Slapping bums was bad, but this is outrageous.
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Ha!
comment by MARK (U1449)
posted 2 hours, 13 minutes ago
Curb-ee. 2 people stand on each pavement, and either throw or kick the ball at each others curb. If it hits it, and rebounds to you, you stand in the middle of the road and throw the ball at the curb till you miss it. If you do miss, and your opponent gets the ball and hits you with it before you get to your pavement, they get all your points. Bonus points if you throw it over a car as it drives by (and you have to hit the curb, obviously).
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I mentioned "Kerby" the other week on another similar thread but nobody had any knowledge of it
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Feel like a bit of an idiot spelling is like that now of course it's kerby
And it was a classic game
comment by Tu Meke Santi (U3732)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by MARK (U1449)
posted 2 hours, 13 minutes ago
Curb-ee. 2 people stand on each pavement, and either throw or kick the ball at each others curb. If it hits it, and rebounds to you, you stand in the middle of the road and throw the ball at the curb till you miss it. If you do miss, and your opponent gets the ball and hits you with it before you get to your pavement, they get all your points. Bonus points if you throw it over a car as it drives by (and you have to hit the curb, obviously).
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I mentioned "Kerby" the other week on another similar thread but nobody had any knowledge of it
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Feel like a bit of an idiot spelling is like that nowof course it's kerby
And it was a classic game
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Ours was slightly different. Once the ball hit the kerb and came back you then took a jump into the road to see where you took the next shot from. When you took that shout you repeated.
It only counted as a successful shot if the ball was caught by you before it bounced (other than off the kerb).
Repeat the steps until you get to the other side of the road.
Dont actually recall a scoring system, just that there was nothing more satisfying that hitting someone on the back or the head with the football as they scampered back to their side of the road
Did anyone else have a line (ours was marked by a telegraph pole) outside which you were allowed to hit the ball after a single bounce, rather than just on the volley?
This rule allowed for some long-range scorchers.
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For stingers/heads and volleys if you hit the post or the keeper saves with 1 touch and it comes back out into play everyone shouted KNOCKOUT!!! and you had a free shot on goal. If the keeper hit it over the half way line or off the pitch in a mard, everyone shouted ANGER and the keeper went down to 1 life.
One man wembo was 'World Cup Willie (doubles)' for me.
Red arris or whatever was just called stingers, occasionally hanging stingers if we felt hard (you hung of the crossbar while everyone belted the ball at you).
SPOT (surely i dont have to explain this one?) also turned into stingers, until one lad caught the ball of the back on his head and headbutted the wall
Also with Stingers, if you missed, you had to join the line.
Obviously going first was a bastrd. Whoever set up the final goal went 2nd to last, goalscorer picks the order of everyone else. And if whoever goes last misses then everyone takes stingers at him.
Good times.
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posted on 4/8/15
comment by Carefree since 1988 (U12148)
posted 1 minute ago
"Headers and Volleys" was the normal for us, but would be renamed to "Bum Slaps" if it involved a punishment for losing.
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You went to Jay's school? I guess it was his ball too, thus his rules
posted on 4/8/15
I'm pretty sure we invented the terms 'Demon Run' and 'Ultimate Demon Run' for our games of Headers and Volleys.
If I remember correctly, a Demon Run was when you made it to six goals and the score was reset to zero, giving the unfortunate keeper a chance to get out of goal.
An Ultimate Demon Run was when you went all the way from zero to six without ever once losing a goal (through being caught by the goalkeeper or putting the ball wide).
posted on 4/8/15
comment by Manfrombelmonty (U1705)
posted 53 seconds ago
why was everyone so fascinated with slapping each others behinds?
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Indeed
posted on 4/8/15
We had the post saves all rule too
posted on 4/8/15
Comment deleted by Site Moderator
posted on 4/8/15
Wall-ee
3 or 4 people aim for a small wall, if you miss it 3 times, you're out. Last man standing wins. Harder than it sounds. Get extra lives for really fancy curl shots if the coont before you did a coont shot.
Curb-ee. 2 people stand on each pavement, and either throw or kick the ball at each others curb. If it hits it, and rebounds to you, you stand in the middle of the road and throw the ball at the curb till you miss it. If you do miss, and your opponent gets the ball and hits you with it before you get to your pavement, they get all your points. Bonus points if you throw it over a car as it drives by (and you have to hit the curb, obviously).
Wembley. Try and lob each other into the goals, you can't go into your area.
Standard headers and volleys.
I feel old
posted on 4/8/15
At school We'd mainly play 'smokers V' basically like a normal 5 or 6 a side game on average, but it would be those who smoked verses those who didn't. Haha. It always seemed really fair teams. I was in the non smokers. We had less skill, but more stamina! Ha. This was around years 9 to 11. Then we stopped that during in sixth form, as rather predictably all the smokers left at 16!
Other than that we played, Wembley doubles. Or if there weren't enough for a game, we'd do keepy upies in a circle and try beat our last break record.
Used to love school for that reason. I miss playing football all the time. I play 5 a side still now twice a week. But nothing beats those lunch time games!
posted on 4/8/15
Curb-ee. 2 people stand on each pavement, and either throw or kick the ball at each others curb. If it hits it, and rebounds to you, you stand in the middle of the road and throw the ball at the curb till you miss it. If you do miss, and your opponent gets the ball and hits you with it before you get to your pavement, they get all your points. Bonus points if you throw it over a car as it drives by (and you have to hit the curb, obviously).
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I mentioned "Kerby" the other week on another similar thread but nobody had any knowledge of it
posted on 4/8/15
We played one which some genius must have invented. Basically there was a massive wall, about 20 foot high. Started with how ever many people were there. Can't remember how we decided the order, I think we did it by age. You weren't allowed to hit the black but of the wall which was at the bottom but could hit any other part of the wall. If somebody missed, they went in 'goal' which is to say they guarded the 20ft wall . There were tactics involved of course and you tried to hit the wall at an angle to make sure the next person had a difficult shot. I was got hit full blast up the kisser when I was in goal. That was painful but injuries ranged from pulled hamstrings, broken fingers to legs cut open due to falling on glass. There were also a few times cars flew in(people from the other side, those from Northern Ireland will get what I mean) and those who weren't quick or lucky enough were hit by flying glass bottles.
So yeah all in all it was quiet a good game.
posted on 4/8/15
Played quite a bit of spot, or wall ee as some are calling it.
Me and my friends had a variation we would play in a kids playground called blue net which added a bit more variety to the game.
You know those cargo type nets you get in kids playgrounds above the floor?
Usually separate a little set of steps on one side and a slide on the other or something.
Well basically we would use that thing to play spot or wall ee against, which it being in a playground that were lots of obstacles around the place (like swings) and the thing also had a fence around it so if you played the right shot the person ended up going outside the fence to take a shot.
The holes were too small for the ball to go through but you could chip the ball inside the net (going over the top of the net) which we used to take a letter off.
As the net had a gap underneath you never actually knew where you'd be taking your shot from so you had to be well on your toes!
Also from the sounds of it me and my friends were a lot more lax as if you couldn't see the net or had some impossible shot you would be given two touches (one to set yourself and second touch is your shot)
posted on 4/8/15
The blue net was the only part that counted the rest of the apparatus around it (including the frame) didn't count.
https://abundantlifechildren.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/img_3521.jpg
Looked a bit like that except it went down a little bit lower to the ground and probably wasn't quite as long.
posted on 4/8/15
comment by The Number 4 Shirt - We've signed Sneijder...lin! (U19487)
posted 2 hours, 26 minutes ago
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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this, apart from we called it world cup singles or doubles.
and yeah the winner was normally fked at the end
also fouling football was great fun, about 20 of us playing, the guy who has the ball gets destroyed by everyone else, you did get guys who never tried to get the ball but wheres the fun in that?
posted on 4/8/15
the winner was normally fked at the end
========
Slapping bums was bad, but this is outrageous.
posted on 4/8/15
you can only imagine how dirty it got
posted on 4/8/15
Headers and volleys! Haven't played that in about 15 years!
Generally we played it on 'the square' opposite our primary school (It wasn't actually square-shaped, and it's now facking houses) and the goal was painted onto a wall which ran along part of one of the sides of the 'square'.
I think we all had 5 lives (someone used to start with 6 but I can't remember how or why), and you could only header in the area, volleys had to be outside. If you shot wide, over, the keeper caught the ball or you touched the ball last before it went out of bounds, you went in goal.
The ultimate test was when the keeper set you up for 'a tempter', which was when he'd throw the ball out to you with as much spin on it as possible and see who'd take on the volley, those with the tekkers took it on, those who didn't would bottle it!
posted on 4/8/15
Headers and volleys ended with "stingers", where who ever conceded the last goal had to stand with their back to everyone else who would take it in turns to kick the ball at them.
Volleys that went wide, over or were caught meant going in goal, there term "volley" was quite loose though, you could throw the ball at someone who wasn't looking, catch it and that would count as a "volley".
Other games, were One Bounce, you'd stand in a circle and keep the ball moving only letting it bounce once, if you messed up then it was ten push ups, Kerby was another, take it in turns to throw the ball at the kerb....
World Cup doubles, standard at school, WC Singles, not as good IMO, didn't like the name "Wembley", didn't really make sense.
Wally (Wall-e?), was a good game, kick the ball against the wall and where ever it landed the next person, usually done alphabetically, had to try and kick it against the wall, if you couldn't dig it out, you were out, good way of deciding who would go in goal first for heads and volleys.
posted on 4/8/15
I forgot Wembley/World Cup singles and doubles. Even though I was pretty good at football, I managed to get through the first couple of rounds by way of Inzaghi-like goalhanging! Would loiter near the goal and pounce on any loose balls or just deflect the ball in
When it got to the business end of the game I'd then start playing properly and actually score some more legit goals!
posted on 4/8/15
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 1 hour, 21 minutes ago
the winner was normally fked at the end
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Slapping bums was bad, but this is outrageous.
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Ha!
posted on 4/8/15
comment by MARK (U1449)
posted 2 hours, 13 minutes ago
Curb-ee. 2 people stand on each pavement, and either throw or kick the ball at each others curb. If it hits it, and rebounds to you, you stand in the middle of the road and throw the ball at the curb till you miss it. If you do miss, and your opponent gets the ball and hits you with it before you get to your pavement, they get all your points. Bonus points if you throw it over a car as it drives by (and you have to hit the curb, obviously).
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I mentioned "Kerby" the other week on another similar thread but nobody had any knowledge of it
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Feel like a bit of an idiot spelling is like that now of course it's kerby
And it was a classic game
posted on 4/8/15
comment by Tu Meke Santi (U3732)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by MARK (U1449)
posted 2 hours, 13 minutes ago
Curb-ee. 2 people stand on each pavement, and either throw or kick the ball at each others curb. If it hits it, and rebounds to you, you stand in the middle of the road and throw the ball at the curb till you miss it. If you do miss, and your opponent gets the ball and hits you with it before you get to your pavement, they get all your points. Bonus points if you throw it over a car as it drives by (and you have to hit the curb, obviously).
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I mentioned "Kerby" the other week on another similar thread but nobody had any knowledge of it
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Feel like a bit of an idiot spelling is like that nowof course it's kerby
And it was a classic game
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Ours was slightly different. Once the ball hit the kerb and came back you then took a jump into the road to see where you took the next shot from. When you took that shout you repeated.
It only counted as a successful shot if the ball was caught by you before it bounced (other than off the kerb).
Repeat the steps until you get to the other side of the road.
Dont actually recall a scoring system, just that there was nothing more satisfying that hitting someone on the back or the head with the football as they scampered back to their side of the road
posted on 4/8/15
Did anyone else have a line (ours was marked by a telegraph pole) outside which you were allowed to hit the ball after a single bounce, rather than just on the volley?
This rule allowed for some long-range scorchers.
posted on 4/8/15
Comment deleted by Site Moderator
posted on 4/8/15
For stingers/heads and volleys if you hit the post or the keeper saves with 1 touch and it comes back out into play everyone shouted KNOCKOUT!!! and you had a free shot on goal. If the keeper hit it over the half way line or off the pitch in a mard, everyone shouted ANGER and the keeper went down to 1 life.
One man wembo was 'World Cup Willie (doubles)' for me.
Red arris or whatever was just called stingers, occasionally hanging stingers if we felt hard (you hung of the crossbar while everyone belted the ball at you).
SPOT (surely i dont have to explain this one?) also turned into stingers, until one lad caught the ball of the back on his head and headbutted the wall
posted on 4/8/15
Also with Stingers, if you missed, you had to join the line.
Obviously going first was a bastrd. Whoever set up the final goal went 2nd to last, goalscorer picks the order of everyone else. And if whoever goes last misses then everyone takes stingers at him.
Good times.
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