Are Players Soft

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TigerMarv

TigerMarv

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Just seen Brazils second goal against Serbia and while it looked a great goal I'm sure it could and should have been blocked by the defender.

Why do players turn their back when supposedly trying to block a shot. Usually the ball passes them while they are sure on and have made themselves the smallest they could just because they are scared of getting hurt.

The majority of the time if the defender stood tall and faced the ball they would get the block in and be facing the right way.

Have players turned soft or is there some strange benefit to turn your back on the ball. Even when I played as kid I'd have been bollocked for turning my back
 
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in the head? Hardly the sharpish tool in the box. Most of them would struggle to change a lightbulb.
 
TigerMarv said:
Just seen Brazils second goal against Serbia and while it looked a great goal I'm sure it could and should have been blocked by the defender.

Why do players turn their back when supposedly trying to block a shot. Usually the ball passes them while they are sure on and have made themselves the smallest they could just because they are scared of getting hurt.

The majority of the time if the defender stood tall and faced the ball they would get the block in and be facing the right way.

Have players turned soft or is there some strange benefit to turn your back on the ball. Even when I played as kid I'd have been bollocked for turning my back
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You probably took a few in the bollocks, that is what they are afraid of ... and of course being hit in their faces.
 
I remember being hit at point blank by an old school 1940s/50s leather ball - it was a freezing January day and it caught me, lace first, high up on the thigh, it was nearly 60 years ago and if I try hard enough I can still feel the sting of it now. The ten year old me never batted an eye-lid, us Courtney Street players weren't very good but we didn't blubber!
 
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my football career mostly consisted of regular hour long games of 5 or 6 or 4 a side on outdoor 5-a-side pitches. i was always up for smacking the ball goalwards with either foot and a fair amount of welly from anywhere on the pitch. one week someone stopped a shot with the inside of his thigh. he told me the following week there was still a mark where he stopped it. i never had any sympathy with anyone who stopped one of my shots.
 
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I remember being hit at point blank by an old school 1940s/50s leather ball - it was a freezing January day and it caught me, lace first, high up on the thigh, it was nearly 60 years ago and if I try hard enough I can still feel the sting of it now. The ten year old me never batted an eye-lid, us Courtney Street players weren't very good but we didn't blubber!
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Perfect description of football on a cold day.
 
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Phinius T Bookbinder said:
Perfect description of football on a cold day.
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Are the bin lids allowed to play on a Saturday morning in December and January with the temperature just peaking over one or two and the pitch wet with frost? Like we did when we was nippers. Or did H&S get involved? Some great grudge matches. Hall Road vs Endyke...with the endyke massive, a rather large young girl, giving our keeper the verbals for the entire game. I seem to recall we always lost to Endsleigh for a reason I could never work out. Croxby had a decent team, again I never knew why because we thought them posh. Saltshouse were like Brazil.
 
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The B&S Fanclub said:
Are the bin lids allowed to play on a Saturday morning in December and January with the temperature just peaking over one or two and the pitch wet with frost? Like we did when we was nippers. Or did H&S get involved? Some great grudge matches. Hall Road vs Endyke...with the endyke massive, a rather large young girl, giving our keeper the verbals for the entire game. I seem to recall we always lost to Endsleigh for a reason I could never work out. Croxby had a decent team, again I never knew why because we thought them posh. Saltshouse were like Brazil.
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Remember a team called East Riding Juventus. Consisted of Ken Houghtons son and Neil Thompson later of City and Forest. I was in goal. We thought keeping it down to 10 would be good. Think it was 10-1 in the end. Not only one way traffic but also freezing cold. Longest 60 or so minutes of my life.
 
Phinius T Bookbinder said:
Remember a team called East Riding Juventus. Consisted of Ken Houghtons son and Neil Thompson later of City and Forest. I was in goal. We thought keeping it down to 10 would be good. Think it was 10-1 in the end. Not only one way traffic but also freezing cold. Longest 60 or so minutes of my life.
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Been there, done that and got the t-shirt...I think we, Hall Road, lost 7-0 to Setting Dyke in the Semi-final of the under 12's Hull Schools' Cup, or summat. Most of that down (allegedly) to the head master who dropped a couple of our best larkers , in favour of his blue-eye boys. Felt as sick as a parrot. My last game for Hall Road, never made the grade at Bransholme, who had the likes of Harry Cardwell, Snr in the side. Enough said.
 
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Been there, done that and got the t-shirt...I think we, Hall Road, lost 7-0 to Setting Dyke in the Semi-final of the under 12's or summat. Most of that down (allegedly) to the head master who dropped a couple of our best larkers , in favour of his blue-eye boys. Felt as sick as a parrot. My last game for Hall Road, never made the grade at Bransholme, who had the likes of Harry Cardwell, Snr in the side. Enough said.
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Great memories of been kids. Kes factor..
 
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I remember playing cricket at school
The batsman hit the ball to silly mid on
I thought he'd blocked the ball with his hands but he stayed down
when I got to him there was a massive bubble of blood coming out of his eye
four lads took a limb each and carried him off the pitch to wait for the ambulance
we restarted the match
then I realised all the fielders were standing on the boundary!
 
Phinius T Bookbinder said:
Remember a team called East Riding Juventus. Consisted of Ken Houghtons son and Neil Thompson later of City and Forest. I was in goal. We thought keeping it down to 10 would be good. Think it was 10-1 in the end. Not only one way traffic but also freezing cold. Longest 60 or so minutes of my life.
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The bloke who started Hull Juventus moved near Brid and taught at Flamborough. I was running a junior team with him. We had Curtis Woodhouse in the team who I got to play for us. He had signed Lee Morris up after seeing him in a school game but never got to see him play as during the summer Rod died of a heart attack at 42. Neil Thompson came over for the final of a memorial competition between local schools. Only game my lad wasn’t bothered about losing as he was captain of his school team and Rod’s son was captain of the other school team on the day. Neil Thompson came over to present the trophy and brought some items to raffle off afterwards. He had always kept in touch with Rod and credited him with setting him off on his career. I won an autographed Ipswich shirt and gave it to a keen Ipswich fan at work. If he hadn’t been at work would have kept I as have always watched for Ipswich results since 1960 for a daft reason and years ago used to bump into a group of Ipswich lads regularly at away games after meeting them in Kings Lynn and having a great night out with them on the way back from our 3-0 Cup win at Norwich.
 
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