It's a Funny Auld Game...

Following a conversation today, laughing about an incident in a match last weekend, it was reminded that we all play football for fun and sometimes Foot.ie gets too serious with people attacking each other etc., about kicking a 'pigskin' around a bit of grass.

So i thought of opening up this to some gaffs you have witnessed while playing or watching junior football.....heres my 2 reminders to lok back and laugh on...

A few years ago we were playing a league game with D Finnan in charge. The opposition winger went down the line, got to the byline and as the ball was crossing the line, swung a leg at it to put it into the box. The defenders and keepers shouting goal kick and as the ball arrived in the box one of the defenders caught the ball ala Paulo DiCanio :eek: (he could have taken it down, had a cup of tea and then cleared it etc as he was not under pressure). The ref blew the whistle and gave a peno which was duely scored. At the time we could not believed what had happened (what our defender did as there was no whistle to award a goal kick or anything) but it always brings a laugh to the few of us that remember it.....:D


so to keep the thread going , why not add a few of your favorite funnies......

Was playing for Holycross when i first came to Ireland and was playing in goals, it was a horrible evening and my gear was soaking wet... ball went behind the goals just over the wire fence went to collect the ball as a newbie there had no idea the fence was electric lent over to pick up ball and then i felt like i had just been tasered :-) still get slagged for it by former teammates lol

You know in Limerick where a lot of soccer players play GAA,Well I was involved in a Gaelic football match one day a good few years ago when a player who will remain nameless had a shot on goal touched around the post by the keeper and out for a "45". When this "dual star" got the ball from beyond the endline he proceeded to jog with the ball in hand along the bye line and placed it at the corner of the pitch for a corner kick. The funniest thing about it is that it took him around 20 seconds to realise what we all were laughing at.Top class stuff,never to be forgotten.

Was playing a meaningless end of season mid table clash a few years back, we were winning handy 6/7-1 with a few minutes to go. ball was crossed into me and I stuck a header in the corner for me hat-trick, ball came off the stanchion in the goal(muck mark of the ball and all on it). The keeper had dived for the initial header so when the ball rebounded out of the goal I picked it up, threw it about 30 feet into the air and volleyed it into the empty goal. The ref booked me for handball and disallowed the goal and gave free out. he claimed it hit the post, even when the opposition admitted to the ref it was a goal he wouldnt change his mind. game finished in a farce, everyone taking the **** out of each other and the ref. The ref even ended up laughing...........

I played in goals for star against fairview in the league a few years back think we were 3-4 down so i put the water bottle on the goal line not thinking. two min later the view forward took a shot which i got a finger to but still beat me and hit the water bottle and went wide....... everyone there seen it........... except the ref who gave a goal kick..

Apparantley this happened when a Limerick official was covering a game involving Polonia Luimni when a hard tackle went in on one of the Polish lads.His team mate came rushing over and said to the ref "what about a yellow card for that ref". The referee allegedly said "I'll give you a green card and you will be able to get a job now go away from me". Shouldn't probably laugh but in fairness that was quick from the ref......

this is one thing i always wondered about so maybe someone can enlighten me as to what should have happened.

Was playing in a cup semi final against a team we had a good auld rivalry with, cant remember the score after 90 mins but it was a draw & went to extra time & peno's.

one of our fella's stepped up to take his penalty, cracked the ball as hard as he could, it hit the top of the cross-bar, went about 40foot in the air, came back down, bounced of the line & went in, ref said it "went out of play before it came back in" and said the goal doesnt stand, the other team scored their next & we got knocked out.,.,., we argued to no avail,.,.. always felt screwed outta it over this one???

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Originally Posted by quasi

this is one thing i always wondered about so maybe someone can enlighten me as to what should have happened.

Was playing in a cup semi final against a team we had a good auld rivalry with, cant remember the score after 90 mins but it was a draw & went to extra time & peno's.

one of our fella's stepped up to take his penalty, cracked the ball as hard as he could, it hit the top of the cross-bar, went about 40foot in the air, came back down, bounced of the line & went in, ref said it "went out of play before it came back in" and said the goal doesnt stand, the other team scored their next & we got knocked out.,.,., we argued to no avail,.,.. always felt screwed outta it over this one???

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Did this happen while playing for Bunratty and Frank Coote was the ref in question?

About 15 years ago, 1 st match of season Pike V boro in the pike field.G.quinlivan was the boro manager. About 10 mins into 2nd half he tells D.Kiely "Too Warm Up"... we were all in the dugout with the sun blazing down..
Dessie replied that " i'm F**K**y roasting george". Dessie stays rooted too the bench..George put him on a few min's later. 1st ball played just in front of Dessie....Dessie misses ball and tell geroge that he is after pulling something...George could only laugh'Dessie replace after about 30 sec's on pitch.. Good man Luther.....

Another Couple of classic's from Sam Browne in the boro... Advice when taking a peno...."put the ball down , lash it and pick your spot" Advice about players drinking before a match... "I have no problem with a player having 4 or 5 pints before a game" he actually meant the morning of a game.....not the night before..

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Originally Posted by twohalves

Apparantley this happened when a Limerick official was covering a game involving Polonia Luimni when a hard tackle went in on one of the Polish lads.His team mate came rushing over and said to the ref "what about a yellow card for that ref". The referee allegedly said "I'll give you a green card and you will be able to get a job now go away from me". Shouldn't probably laugh but in fairness that was quick from the ref......

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ill bet that ref was jimmy clancy.i see polonia play a game one day and a great ball was put through for the centre forward but here was your man on his mobile.apparently he had it down his sock.very funny.

a good few years ago when frany mul(R.I.P.) was manager of pike they were after getting a brand new gear.they were playing a game at home and were 3 or 4 up when franny decided to take off dobber.it started lashing raining and franny told dobber he took him off because the colour he put into his hair would run into the new jerseys.it was priceless.you could write a book here about franny .what a character.

was playing in the fai senior cup for the view. went to go around the ref but as i did, he stepped backwards and bumped into me, i twisted as i fell. The back of my head hit the hip of the other player, and put me out cold. The ref played on for about 15 seconds and there wasn't a budge out of me. When the ball went dead the ambulance crew came onto the pitch, lifted me onto the stretcher (still out cold). Just before they move me off the pitch, the ref looks down at my number and proceeds to take his book and cards out. He takes a red card and sends me off (while out cold on the stretcher, picture that). I did not have a yellow or anything before that.......we played the last 15 min with 10 men and drew. I woke up a while later in hospital not knowing what happened.....

we won the replay AET in cork.......

The only way i know what happened was i have seen it on video, as the match was recorded......

Was at a game a good few years ago where Christy Reddan was playing, and as usual Christy was making an absolute tool out of some overweight full back. The full back got a little 'annoyed' at this and ran at Christy near the corner flag and kicked him four feet up in the air. Ollie Hayes was reffing, and being one who didn't like to leave the centre circle, Ollie was well peeved at having to run to the corner flag. Puffing for air, he put his hand in his pocket about 20 yeards away and roared at the full back "You're off". Out came the three of clubs...he lost his red card and was using a playing card with a red back on it....Everyone involved simply wet themselves laughing...

I remember a few yrs ago, playin against crewe park in an end of seaso n fixture, meaningless game, from a kick towards cyril maher on the wing with his back towards the ref he caught the ball and rolled it too himself through on goal..the whole ground saw him do it and stopped, except of course the ref, cyril went through on goal p*issin himself laughin one on one with gordon who also was in raptures laughin only fro maherl to fall over the ball cos he was laughin so much.. a pure golden moment!!

Season before last in the first game of the season, the ref (Vinny McGuinn RIP) blew up for one of the opposition players being off-side and turned his back to play to proceed to the other end of the pitch, in the mean time the ball had ran harmlessly through to our keeper, he hadnt heard the whistle, he picked the ball ran to the edge of his box and launched a drop kick down the pitch, it was flicked on and a goal was scored. Everyone who was facing the ball knew what had happened, except for poor Vinny. He gave the goal and bedlam ensued, match finished a draw

Remember playing Oscar youths match in Dublin a few years back and i think it was Gerry Kelly who got a bang in the head and required much needed attention.The Limerick physio raced on and proceeded to spray Gerry's head with 'Deep Heat'..........
Can't think of his name but he was an actual ref at the time,his name was Pat and he has a husky voice.From Shannon i think.....

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Originally Posted by Abbey Road

Remember playing Oscar youths match in Dublin a few years back and i think it was Gerry Kelly who got a bang in the head and required much needed attention.The Limerick physio raced on and proceeded to spray Gerry's head with 'Deep Heat'..........
Can't think of his name but he was an actual ref at the time,his name was Pat and he has a husky voice.From Shannon i think.....

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A few years back????? thats well over a decade ago (closer to 15 years even) if Gerry Kelly was playing Oscar Youths..............the man in question I'd say was Pat O'Brien.

Ya Alan your right.actually 17 yrs ago.........Getting old now!!!
Pat O'Brien was THE MAN in question.

In december of this season we were playing in doolin in what would have to be described as storm conditions, we were winning the game 3-1 and they had a corner, their keeper was sitting down in his own goal with his jersey pulled down to cover himself trying to keep warm, we counter attacked and by the time he realised he tried to get to his feet, he fell over himself and 1 of our guys ran up and tapped it in....funniest part was after the goal he had an argument with his manager and threw off his jersey only to realise it was still freezing and he had about 400 yards to go to the dressing room.........PRICELESS

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Originally Posted by obi-1 kenobi-0

Did this happen while playing for Bunratty and Frank Coote was the ref in question?

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indeed it was for Bunratty youths about 4 or 5 years ago ;) :D, cant remember the ref but he made a balls of that one i reckon

Classic one for me, was in my first year of refereein and i was doing Caerconlish v Dines B , Dines B Player/Manager/Psyhio i know as "The Kid" from my O2 Interfirm days was playing rigt back, speed wasn't is fortie but still had some skills... well when Caherconlish cleared a ball it landed to the Kid just inside his half, all the Caherconlish start charging out trying to play Dines offside expecting the Kid to pass it to someone, but Silky skills kick in and he just chipped it over and ran on to it himself leaving him one and one with te keeper and as e was bearing down on goal e just got into the box and took a mighty swipe at the ball but instead of connecting with the ball he kicked the ground instead in front of ball and fell over the ball..... the ball ran tamely to the keeper everyone starting bursting out laughing myself included but the best bit was when he turned to me and said " Ref come on that was surely a penalty" Classic :-)

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Originally Posted by obi-1 kenobi-0

Did this happen while playing for Bunratty and Frank Coote was the ref in question?

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I remember this one alright, if my memory serves me correctly it was Stephen Kelly who took that penalty

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Originally Posted by quasi

indeed it was for Bunratty youths about 4 or 5 years ago ;) :D, cant remember the ref but he made a balls of that one i reckon

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I was number 11 penalty taker for Bunratty so I was almost happy that Frankie never gave it or else I would have had to take one.

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Originally Posted by vidic-class

I remember this one alright, if my memory serves me correctly it was Stephen Kelly who took that penalty

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It was indeed.Can't remember yourself being present?

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Originally Posted by BigfeetBigsocks

Classic one for me, was in my first year of refereein and i was doing Caerconlish v Dines B , Dines B Player/Manager/Psyhio i know as "The Kid" from my O2 Interfirm days was playing rigt back, speed wasn't is fortie but still had some skills... well when Caherconlish cleared a ball it landed to the Kid just inside his half, all the Caherconlish start charging out trying to play Dines offside expecting the Kid to pass it to someone, but Silky skills kick in and he just chipped it over and ran on to it himself leaving him one and one with te keeper and as e was bearing down on goal e just got into the box and took a mighty swipe at the ball but instead of connecting with the ball he kicked the ground instead in front of ball and fell over the ball..... the ball ran tamely to the keeper everyone starting bursting out laughing myself included but the best bit was when he turned to me and said " Ref come on that was surely a penalty" Classic :-)

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Derek Barry is his name, a legend with many more storys to go with this one

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Originally Posted by obi-1 kenobi-0

I was number 11 penalty taker for Bunratty so I was almost happy that Frankie never gave it or else I would have had to take one.

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so what do ye think about the decision on the peno, think it should have stood?