I was more of a Socrates type of player, could score some outrageous goals, but liked to have a *** at HT
I didn't smoke when I was at school, didn't like smoking then, I had a cig a mate had given me at some ridiculous young age and never touched one after that, thought they were disgusting. But as soon as I left school and went into pubs I started smoking, crazy thinking about it now. Can't remember what players we mentally pretended to be, I assume it must have been Pele, Bobby Moore, Hurst...oh and Banks if you are in goal. Still ****ing remember Poland knocking us out of the 1974 World Cup qualifier - scarred on my memory that one.
I still remember Eusebio (Benfica and Portugal) - funny how us pale white guys always looked up to the black sportsmen, much like Muhammad Ali. Mention Mo now and some people have a ****ing melt-down.
Tell yer the one that always got me was Banks playing for Stoke City, I was like wtf is he playing with them for. Fosse will be along later to tell me about Leicester now.
When I was at primary school, they had a ban on footballs and tennis balls in the playground (**** knows why) so we had to make our own sockballs. Literally loads of socks wrapped around each other to make a ball and then you'd get your mum to sew it up so it didn't come undone Those things were like little cannon balls when it was raining and often the stitching would come undone. They'd end up falling apart and you'd play until it was just a bunch of scraggy socks
I was the Gazza, Maradona, Hoddle, Ardiles, Klinsmann, Van Basten, Jean Pierre Papin Georghie Hagis and Hristo Stoichkovs of the world all depended on what kinda goal scored, pass made or dribble completed init
playing with a Tennis ball in primary school laid the foundations for my amazing ball control throughout my career when I look back
Never really got the hype about George Best I played like that every game and scored lobs n chips n dribbles like he did every lunchtime meh
Me being from the South, loads of kids use to take the piss out of him, so I don't think you ever said you were George Best lol... 'Georgie Best, superstar, he walks like a woman and he wears a bra'.
There was a pecking order at my school about which players you could choose to be. The best footballers would get to choose first, so Zico, Socrates, Maradonna, Platini, Keegan, Rush, Hoddle etc would go first. The fat / crap kids would get last picks and end up having to be Luther Blissett, Steve Archibald or Cyril Regis or something lol
When I was at school if you didn't have a ball, you just found a stone, mainly because the idea of the game was to kick **** out of one another.
When I was at secondary school. Proper balls were only allowed on the school field, so we used to play 3 or 4 a side tennis ball football in the playground and use the bike sheds as a goal (one goal, both trying to score in it) Some mad skills developed from playing with a tennis ball
Cheeky ****er, but there is one goal that you probably find in every list of best goal, best finish to a game, best commentary etc
