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.Quote:
Originally Posted by thischarmingman
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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.Quote:
Originally Posted by thischarmingman
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That's "wall ball".;)Quote:
Originally Posted by sligoman
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by 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
Did everyone else implement a "no blemmers" rule for such games too?
Was going to say the same thing but you edited your post to include that.;)Quote:
Originally Posted by stann
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.
Never heard of that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sheridan
This is a great thread BTW.
"No blemmers" is basically a rule prohibiting very forcefully struck close-range shots.
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Originally Posted by sligoman
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Originally Posted by DmanDmythDledge
Killers is the name that comes to mind ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by stann
Never heard of that but sounds like it took the fun out of the game :D.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sheridan
We just called it "Spiking" the ball. Usually when a penalty was awarded ...Quote:
Originally Posted by Sheridan
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.
Down our was that was known as "Being on the suck"Quote:
Originally Posted by Hairy Bowsie
Not for the poor sap who had to retrieve the ball!Quote:
Originally Posted by ifk101
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.
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Originally Posted by Sheridan
The other dispute- if you have jumpers for goalposts, do you allow "post-and-ins?"
Definitely not! Over the post was no goal. Bloody hell that caused some rows though, what was over and what wasn't! :D
We didn't have a "no blemmers" rule in call ball, but it was a phrase used down our way alright, must have implemented it in other games so.
Our game of Squares was a different game entirely.Quote:
Originally Posted by theworm2345
The road was marked out into "squares" (well, rectangles to be accurate) by virue of the tar that lined out the sections of road and everyone stood in a square each.
The Ball could only bounce once in your square and you had to kick or head the ball onto an opponent in another square.
Compromise rules football tennis, in a nutshell.
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Originally Posted by Sheridan
Our only rule was "big toe-no goal":)
Where do you stand on the heated issue of "Fly Goalie" or "Stick Goalie".
I always thought you got better games with a "Stick Goalie".
Usually would depend on the numbers. I was a fly goalie myself more than often. The best place to play football back then was on the street especially during the winter and street lamps acting as floodlights. A game we used to play was "gates" using the neighbours garden gates as goals. No need for keepers as the area to score was so confined. Headers and volleys was known as Wembley Knockout or Records.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wolfie
We only allowed "fly goalies" if there was uneven number and one team was a man short.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wolfie
I thought games with "stick goalies" were better as well. No cheeky long range efforts going into empty goals...
"last man back" usually ended in chaosQuote:
Originally Posted by Wolfie
"he was further back when you caught the ball", "yeah but I'm the goalie".
"we're playing last man back"
Toe pecker or toe poke.
goal hanger
fly keeper or stick keeper.
thats the way it was round my way.
Up Sligo way, a guy hanging around the goals got the imaginative name of Goal Hanger.
The Fly keeper dilemma was usually solved by the opposing team only being allowed shoot from within the box. This could also be used as a handicap if one team was much better than the other.
Neither, first man back was the best option.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wolfie
Last man back
Last-man-back was the only way to go in short-sided games.
How brilliant were those closely contested games on the local green that lasted for literally hours?
I can remember one epic that was 34 all at one stage.
It was originally intended to be first to 15 - but you had to win by 2.
2 hours later and there was no way either side wanted to lose.
Having stole a lead of 35 - 34 - one of the lads on our side sensed glory.
With the oppositions goal in sight, he took aim and unleashed a thunderbolt of a shot.
It was most definitely goal bound.
On route to the goal, it struck one of the opposition full square in the ballicks.
Both sets of players then collapsed in a heap of laughter - following the collision with said players ballicks - the ball was burst.
Game declared a draw. :D
Reminds me of a 5-a-side I played about 2 years ago. One of our players was a fairly large fellow (not fat, just 'big') He took the ball forward, then fell over his own feet and absolutely milled himself. He seemed to be in the air for about 5 seconds. Everyone playing hurt themselves laughing so hard. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Wolfie