"Toe-benjy"

[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.

[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.

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.

[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.

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. 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 .

[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 .

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.

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

[stann]

Definitely not! Over the post was no goal. Bloody hell that caused some rows though, what was over and what wasn't!

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.

[Wolfie]

..........Squares, not sure if they're the same as yours. 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.

Our game of Squares was a different game entirely.

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.

[the 12 th man]

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

Our only rule was "big toe-no goal"

[Wolfie]

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".

[red bellied]

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.

[DmanDmythDledge]

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".

We only allowed "fly goalies" if there was uneven number and one team was a man short.

I thought games with "stick goalies" were better as well. No cheeky long range efforts going into empty goals...

[tetsujin1979]

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".

"last man back" usually ended in chaos
"he was further back when you caught the ball", "yeah but I'm the goalie".
"we're playing last man back"

[smellyfeet]

Toe pecker or toe poke.
goal hanger
fly keeper or stick keeper.
thats the way it was round my way.

[brianw82]

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.

[sligoman]

Where do you stand on the heated issue of "Fly Goalie" or "Stick Goalie".

Neither, first man back was the best option.