You hardly ever see professionals wearing proper shinnies. They would be as well sticking a train ticket in their socks, would offer as much protection as the ones they wear.
I still stick slavishly to my big Robocop efforts with the extra padding on the ankles If I wore the wee tiny things the pros seem to wear these days, the Paisley five-a-side league would claim both my ankles as trophies within a week or two.
My brother (26 next month) still wears shinguards he got for his 13th birthday. I still wear the proper ones seeing as I'm a centre half in an amateur league. Years ago I bought a new pair of shinguards to use later that day. In the game I broke my ankle and the base of my shin bone. Luckily one of the Scotland physios was watching his sons game on the pitch beside mine. Got taken into the changing room and he told me he had to cut the ankle part with scissors. Me being the cheap jake that I am, tried to take it off normally because I had just bought them Tried playing 6 weeks later and was running about ok but broke it again by taking a free kick
Shin pads are for ****s. Years of karate and muay thai will toughen the legs up. If some **** wants to break your leg then a wee bit of plastic isn't going to help. Ledley is a wee ****ter.
I'd be ****ed if I didn't wear them - I play games with my mates and I wear the shinnies mostly because I'm used to wearing them and it changes your balance if you don't wear them if you're used to it (I think that's why pros wear the wee tiny things now). Playing with mates is fine but, without my shinnies in the league games, I'd be injured more often than not. ****s fae certain teams genuinely want to hurt you - you play the same teams every five or six weeks and one square go with two guys in one game means the next game starts with an atmosphere. You get to the stage where you've had a couple of games against a team of wee neds (it's always the teenagers who don't wear the same strips that cause the hassle - when you see a team of old guys in proper kit, you're gonna get a good game, when 8 19 yr olds in Rangers and Celtic taps appear with an extra five numpties for hauners, it's time to stand up and be counted ) and there's more posturing and shoving than actual fitba. I've been out with bad ones a couple of times. I'll try and get the story off the net but, a few years ago, one of the refs ended up in intensive care when a shower of ****ers absolutely set about him.
Nothing worse, man. I'd rather take on a proper man double my size than a wee teenage fanny with his mates. The wee fanny has no kids and little reason to give a **** yet has everything to prove.
In proper games the wee fannies are the easiest ones to deal with. Older guys who know when the ref isn't looking are the worst. Was playing against the Kerrydale Street forum team a few years ago and was marking their striker out the game. He was a junior footballer so had the experience and know how of how to be a dirty ****e. They get a goal kick and the guy starts backing into me, so I give him a push and stand my ground. Next thing I know I'm waking up at the side of the pitch. **** had elbowed me in the throat when the ref wasn't watching and it knocked me out cold Typical tim, always cheating.
I remember we used to slag the opposition (only when we knew we had them, <bullies>) during set pieces and corners. I was centre half and I used to bark orders at the set plays. "Right you mark the wee ginger ****, al take big tubby and you take that lanky bastard wae 2 left feet" Nobody knew how to react to this, my team mates were all laughing but the opposition were totally baffled. funny tactic. wonder if the pros use it?
Quality. I do similar but never as harsh as that I'm playing tonight along in Drumchapel for my work, but we're playing big bad contractors so I would imagine they'll be trying to bully us office folk. Win this and we are in the civil engineers league cup final I'm right mid for my work because I'm a superstar and one of the few in the team who actually has anything resembling technique.
I never wore shinnies on principal, as T says they are for gaylords and queerhawks. Mind you, my shins look like Simon Weston's fizzer on a bad day.
Defo ... You can bet Brown walking past McCulloch giving him pelters or McGregor telling Hooper that he shagged his maw! Mulgrew: "Dan, you mark limp wrist (Naismith) and I'll pick up downs baby (Davis)".
Contractor @ corner "Right, who's marking the mildly obese guy with the massive head who has been playing right mid" Other "Me?" Contractor "Who the **** are you?" Other "Russ Provan" Calum ""
Nah, too old for Soccer now Edge, I hung up my Relum Comets a few years back. I was a midfield clugger tho.
You could always head down to the Drum tonight to watch though. And what the **** is Relum Comets? When I was a wean, the football boots were called Cotton Oxfords
I did a Google for Relum Comets and look at the 4th result down, from a Mr DevAdvocate on BBC606 http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Re...s=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a You must be the only **** on the Internet who knows what they are
It was a byword for the cheapest ****ieist plastic footie boots you could buy, appalling. Anyone who wore them (and there were very few) was always in for a torrid slagging in the changing rooms.
