"Toe-benjy"

[Sheridan]

It just occurred to me now that I haven't heard this term used for about fifteen years. When I was a kid, we used it all the time to refer to the act of striking the ball inexpertly with the toe rather than the instep. Was it just a local thing, or do other people remember hearing it?

[DmanDmythDledge]

"Toe-bog" is what was used when I was a nipper.

[De Town]

"Bull toe" was my phrase of choice.

[Hairy Bowsie]

"Toe-bog" is what was used when I was a nipper.

Yeah it was "toe bog" where i grew up in town.

Also when playing "3 and your in" or "World cup" the act of hanging around the box was called, by us, "snibbling" but when i used this recently all my northsider friends laughed, apparently they called it "Hatching"

[DmanDmythDledge]

I'm laughing too.:D "Hatching" is what I've always heard used.

[Sheridan]

I'm sure we used another term in addition to hatching.

My favourite game was 60 Seconds. It was basically heads and volleys but the 'keeper would count (not always with scrupulous accuracy) to sixty, by which time the outfielders needed to have scored an incrementally increasing number of goals. If the quota wasn't fulfilled, the last player to touch the ball before the minute was up would take over in goal.

[thischarmingman]

It just occurred to me now that I haven't heard this term used for about fifteen years.
We used the rather more prosaic, "toepoke."


the act of hanging around the box was called, by us, "snibbling" but when i used this recently all my northsider friends laughed, apparently they called it "Hatching"
They're ones to laugh- everyone knows that's called, "mooching."


I'm sure we used another term in addition to hatching.

My favourite game was 60 Seconds. It was basically heads and volleys but the 'keeper would count (not always with scrupulous accuracy) to sixty, by which time the outfielders needed to have scored an incrementally increasing number of goals. If the quota wasn't fulfilled, the last player to touch the ball before the minute was up would take over in goal.

Best. Game. Ever. And basically what I spend my entire childhood playing.

[Hairy Bowsie]

Now that you mention it thischarmingman, we also used "toe-poke".

[DmanDmythDledge]

Never heard of that 60 seconds game. Heads and volleys, 3-and-in (or 3-and-choose as it become) and World Cup were the most popular games that we played. And kerbs too, that was quality. I remember one epic game where we started from inside the garden rather than the road and kicked the ball instead.

[Schumi]

I'm laughing too.:D "Hatching" is what I've always heard used.

Goal hanging was the polite term we used.

[Sheridan]

We used to play endless games against the hard kids from the flats on a plateau of the hill next to the main road. The haggling over "next goal wins" when it started getting dark, even though we were about 30-20 down, was always pretty torrid.

[DmanDmythDledge]

Goal hanging was the polite term we used.
Yeah but you went to a posh school.;):D

[stann]

Toe-jab it always was down our way, as long as I remember, though at some point toe-bog also began to be used, mainly for the more outrageously agricultural efforts, this further mutated into 'bog' as a verb, as in 'bog it up the other end' of the field, beach, street, bustop or wherever it was!
Occasionally toe-poke was used too, but invariably as part of 'crafty toe-poke', which was only ever applied to one delivered with either a swift subtle movement, or the merest touch on the stretch.

Never heard of hatching, mooching or snibbling (or toe-benjy for that matter). Goal-hanging it always was, occasionally goal-hogging.

Some of the popular games were three-goals-on, backs-and-forwards, that knockout one where once you'd scored you sat down and the last one who didn't score went on goal for the next round, head tennis, and of course frequently climbing into the ESB substation to retrieve the ball as we used to use the gate as a goal for a lot of the games. :D

Small boys, in the park, dangerous electrical installations for goalposts...
http://720lignes.blog.lemonde.fr/files/2009/06/hqdefault.1244121086.jpg

[Dunny]

"Big-toe" around here.

[theworm2345]

Now that you mention it thischarmingman, we also used "toe-poke".

"Toe bash" or "Toe ball" over here, hanging around the goal waiting for the a tap-in is called "cherry picking" but that can be used in Basketball or hockey as well.

[pineapple stu]

Goal hanging was the polite term we used.
Yeah, goal hanging here too. Toe-bog, or sometimes toe-poke. And this -


Also when playing "3 and you're in"
- magically became "Three and in"...

[Fizzer]

"Big-toe" around here.


Yeah Big-toe, and someone would be 'lodging' in the box

[Hairy Bowsie]

and someone would be 'lodging' in the box

You sure you were playing football?

[Wolfie]

It was "Big Toe" on our estate.

"Hatcher" was term for hanging around the box - or often a "Bleedin Hatcher" or worse if said Hatcher was managing to score a few.

We played "3 and in" , "World Cup" and there was a game we played on the road called "Squares". Anyone else play that?

[tiktok]

Toe-poke and lodging [which was the greatest of all sins] where I grew up.
Boring, but better than ESPN's Tommy "first time head shot into the old onion bag" Smith can come up with.

60 seconds was great fun, had completely forgottten that.

[Dunny]

"Snibbing" or "snibber" was the term for hanging around the box.

[Wolfie]

"Snibbing" or "snibber" was the term for hanging around the box.

"Snibbing around the box".

It has a vague undercurrent of what the likes of Peter Stringfellow gets up to.

I'm sure he has many diary entries along the lines of:

Tuesday 25th

"Didn't do much out of the ordinary. Just a bit of the old Snibbing around the box............................."

[sligoman]

Bull-toe and goal hanging...all the other names ye have put on them are just weird;).

People that kept shooting and never pass was known as a 'Glory-hunter'...'would ya stop glorying!'

[Hairy Bowsie]

"Snibbing" or "snibber" was the term for hanging around the box.

Are you forgeting the "L"?

[dfclilywhite]

Are you forgeting the "L"?

Nope he isn't. Snibbing is the word I would use too.

[hula4]

i remember it being toe peg growing up in limerick, goal hanging as well, i wish i was 10 all over again, you could play from 10 in the morning til 10 at night, struggle to get through the 90 mins these days

[Longfordian]

Bull-toe and goal hanging...all the other names ye have put on them are just weird;).

People that kept shooting and never pass was known as a 'Glory-hunter'...'would ya stop glorying!'

Yes, all of this is correct.

[tetsujin1979]

i remember it being toe peg growing up in limerick, goal hanging as well, i wish i was 10 all over again, you could play from 10 in the morning til 10 at night, struggle to get through the 90 mins these days
ditto, toe-poke and goal-hanging where I was from in the Treaty City

headers and volleys could go on for hours, keeper scored a point for every shot caught cleanly (ie without letting it bounce) and for every shot that went in that wasn't a volley

[John83]

In a major shock, the UCD lads (who all grew up in South Dublin) all use much the same slang as me.

Toe-bog or toe-poke (mainly a distinction of power) and goal hatching/hanging were the terms of choice. Oh, and it was 3-and-in for me too.

[Sheridan]

People that kept shooting and never pass was known as a 'Glory-hunter'...'would ya stop glorying!'
We called them "Jewbags" in the late eighties, I'm sorry to say. I didn't know what a Jew was, to be honest.

[John83]

We called them "Jewbags" in the late eighties, I'm sorry to say. I didn't know what a Jew was, to be honest.
As a small child, I once asked a Protestant friend if he was indeed a prostitute. I didn't know what either word meant and had mixed them up.

[theworm2345]

It was "Big Toe" on our estate.

"Hatcher" was term for hanging around the box - or often a "Bleedin Hatcher" or worse if said Hatcher was managing to score a few.

We played "3 and in" , "World Cup" and there was a game we played on the road called "Squares". Anyone else play that?
We played games called World Cup and Squares, not sure if they're the same as yours. World Cup was where everyone paired off (and picked a nation) and basically a ball was thrown in and everybody tried to score. Squares was when there were three squares, two on the flank, one in the middle and in each square was offense and defense. The ball started on one flank, the offense there had to get a certain number of passes and cross it to the other flank where they then had to get a certain number before putting in the center where the strikers had to try to score. Don't know about 3 and in.

[Dunny]

Ah squares, brilliant. Headers, crosses and volleys was the fav though.

[thischarmingman]

Some of the popular games were three-goals-on, backs-and-forwards, that knockout one where once you'd scored you sat down and the last one who didn't score went on goal for the next round

That;s one we played a lot athough we just had one person who would stay in goals for all 3/4/5 rounds. Some amount of running and chasing involved- the first round maybe 5 or 6 of you would be chasing the ball, all aiming for the one net. Prime mooching opportunites for the weaker/more tired.

[DmanDmythDledge]

Some amount of running and chasing involved- the first round maybe 5 or 6 of you would be chasing the ball, all aiming for the one net. Prime mooching opportunites for the weaker/more tired.
I'd never try until there was 2/3 people left, usually 2. Brilliant tactic.:p

[sligoman]

that knockout one where once you'd scored you sat down and the last one who didn't score went on goal for the next roundThat game is called World Cup;).

[thischarmingman]

It's called Knockout, I think you'll find. And the trick was to let the better players tire themselves out running around before dispossessing them at the last minute/deflecting their weary shot. :)

[pineapple stu]

Nope, World Cup.

[Poor Student]

I'm throwing my lot behind the terms 'toe bog', 'hatcher' and 'World Cup'.

[ifk101]

Bull-toe and lodging (as in lodging on the goal-line).

[sligoman]

It's called Knockout, I think you'll find.No Knockout is the game where each person has 3 lives & each person kicks the ball off the wall and if it bounces back & hits another person, they lose a life.

:p

[DmanDmythDledge]

No Knockout is the game where each person has 3 lives & each person kicks the ball off the wall and if it bounces back & hits another person, they lose a life.

:p
That's "wall ball".;)

[stann]

That's "wall ball".;)

Call Ball we called our version of that, no doubt because it had the added dimension that if a named person didn't return the ball against the wall with one touch they also lost a life.
The best bit was when you got to take your shot close in, at a glancing angle, so you could then leather it off the wall and 50 yards (we were kids!) away, almost parallel. I think there's a similar move in croquet.
Best. Game. Ever. :D

[Sheridan]

Did everyone else implement a "no blemmers" rule for such games too?

[DmanDmythDledge]

The best bit was when you got to take your shot close in, at a glancing angle, so you could then leather it off the wall and 50 yards (we were kids!) away, almost parallel. I think there's a similar move in croquet.
Best. Game. Ever. :D
Was going to say the same thing but you edited your post to include that.;)

The wall where we played in primary school had another wall to the right of it but to the left was just open space and behind (if you catch my drift). So if you got the right angle and were right footed you could hit the ball with the outside of your foot and the spin would take it miles away but more or less perpendicular to the wall we were playing at.:D Used to leave doing that.


Did everyone else implement a "no blemmers" rule for such games too?
Never heard of that.

This is a great thread BTW.

[Sheridan]

"No blemmers" is basically a rule prohibiting very forcefully struck close-range shots.

[ifk101]

Knockout


That's "wall ball".;)


Call Ball

Killers is the name that comes to mind ;)


"No blemmers" is basically a rule prohibiting very forcefully struck close-range shots.

Never heard of that but sounds like it took the fun out of the game :D.

[Ash]

It just occurred to me now that I haven't heard
this term used for about fifteen years. When I was a kid, we used it all the
time to refer to the act of striking the ball inexpertly with the toe rather than
the instep. Was it just a local thing, or do other people remember hearing
it?

We just called it "Spiking" the ball. Usually when a penalty was awarded ...
the roar from the crowd would be "Spike it ... Straight at him" in the hope
that the poor keeper would get the ball square ion the face ... or else dive to
avoid it and give away a goal.



... the act of hanging around the box was called, by us, "snibbling" but when
i used this recently all my northsider friends laughed, apparently they called
it "Hatching"

Down our was that was known as "Being on the suck"

[Sheridan]

Never heard of that but sounds like it took the fun out of the game :D.
Not for the poor sap who had to retrieve the ball!

The other thing I remember from games of World Cup was that a foul anywhere on the pitch resulted in a penalty, whereupon the "twelve yards" would be measured out in baby-steps by the prospective taker, and disputed in giant strides by the player penalised.

[thischarmingman]

Not for the poor sap who had to retrieve the ball!

The other thing I remember from games of World Cup was that a foul anywhere on the pitch resulted in a penalty, whereupon the "twelve yards" would be measured out in baby-steps by the prospective taker, and disputed in giant strides by the player penalised.

:D

The other dispute- if you have jumpers for goalposts, do you allow "post-and-ins?"