"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. "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. "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.

[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.

Small boys, in the park, dangerous electrical installations for goalposts...

[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.