Balls

[mrb85]

What are these bouncing balloons being used in the PL this season? Awful. Making games even faster and scrappier.

 

[chrismpw]

Bring back the hard as concrete mitres I played with in the 80s.

Awaits @Methuselah to tell us all about having to head lace ups.

 

[Tubey]

What are these bouncing balloons being used in the PL this season? Awful. Making games even faster and scrappier.

It's been that way for at least ten years now. Flyaways with leather on them.

 

[DanB90]

It's been that way for at least ten years now. Flyaways with leather on them.

Yeah they have, probably longer. I remember we used to play with mitres in school and on a Sunday.
I bought one of the 2002 World Cup balls out of my pocket money and I turned into Roberto Carlos.
I was crap as well.

 

[Tubey]

Yeah they have, probably longer. I remember we used to play with mitres in school and on a Sunday.
I bought one of the 2002 World Cup balls out of my pocket money and I turned into Roberto Carlos.
I was crap as well.

Ha exactly the same - Mitre Tactics were deadly.

 

[DanB90]

Ha exactly the same - Mitre Tactics were deadly.

Proper concussion merchants.

 

[Tubey]

Proper concussion merchants.

Gives me a headache just looking at it.

 

[LEONARD]

Hat's off to that boy, scaled the Berlin wall to get the ball back.

Respect.

 

[chrismpw]

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Gives me a headache just looking at it.

Memories. My thighs stinging in a January games session at school.

 

[Tubey]

Memories. My thighs stinging in a January games session at school.

Most people who played with that ball don't remember doing so. Because repeated, severe concussions tend to do that.

Even I'm only somewhat sure I did haha

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

I thought this was a bout ed .

 

[Methuselah]

Bring back the hard as concrete mitres I played with in the 80s.

Awaits @Methuselah to tell us all about having to head lace ups.

True this. In the 1950's I played a Yorkshire League game on Saturday afternoon. Saturday evening I went to pick up her indoors (to be) to go out somewhere. She refused to go out with me as I had the red imprint of the football lace right across the middle of my forehead. We stayed in that evening.lol

 

[Methuselah]

Most people who played with that ball don't remember doing so. Because repeated, severe concussions tend to do that.

Even I'm only somewhat sure I did haha

Back in the 1940's in Liverpool, a common term for someone who was a bit 'slow' was 'a head the ball'. So the dangers were well known then.

 

[Tubey]

Back in the 1940's in Liverpool, a common term for someone who was a bit 'slow' was 'a head the ball'. So the dangers were well known then.

I think we all knew that getting hit in the head by something slightly softer than a cannonball wasn't likely to be good for you - because, you know, boxing exists and people know what a right hook to the temple can do.

But the difference between then and even the early 90s and now is that while people understood it, we also understood that life was for living, not panicking about absolutely everything and anything.

 

[Methuselah]

In the early 1900's footballs were made in segments, like an orange. The segments were held together at each end by a leather 'button'. This ball was banned after some players were killed by heading the button.