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DB10GOONER wrote:Inspired by the worst away ground thread. What is the worst place you've ever played football at?
For me it would be Malahide in Dublin back in the early 1990's. A posh (ish) town but all their money went to the towel flickers so the local football team had no showers and the pitch was beside the one chav housing estate in the whole town. You'd often have crunts throw bottles over the wall from the estate onto the pitch during a game. And it always seemed to be raining and windy there too.
Close second (maybe level worst) was Tallaght (one of the roughest areas in Dublin). Games there nearly always ended up in a fight with the local hard men on the pitch. It was also the only place I've ever seen a referee get punched spark out during a game. We even had one game interupted by a local joyrider (Dublinese for car thief) driving onto and then doing "donuts" on the pitch for about ten minutes until the cops showed up and chased him off down the road...
You didn't get injured at these venues DB10...
actually, it's funny you should... nah, I didn't.
I'm not as injury prone as you'd think. You have to remember Frank, I'm 42, been playing 35 years mate. So if you space out my serious injuries (by serious I mean broken bones or bad ligament damage) over that time frame it's about one every 6 or 7 years. Which ain't bad. So I'm not due another serious one until about 2014 or so...
I've just started playing again after a year's break (after an injury) I must be a glutton for punishment, coz I was playing Vets football (over 35's) and now playing in an over 18 league, and I'm 45.
It's bloody hard, takes about 4 days to recover from a game, but I love it.
Keep it going mate.
Yeah. I didn't start playing in the over 35's until I was 40! Used to be running around kicking all these little 20 year old crunts in my 30's. But in fairness I've looked after myself (never smoked, watch what I eat, do kick boxing) and was fitter than most of them. I also still "bang" (not sure what term you use over there for an unregistered player that plays under someone else's registration) for my younger brother's team about once or twice a month.
Last year I was playing indoors on Saturday and over 35's outdoors on Sunday but the recovery time isn't there so the fucking knees and ankles would be fucked on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday!!
This year I'm concentrating on the indoors and just the odd run outdoors with the brothers team.
As a mate of mine that had to retire with a serious medial knee injury about 5 years ago has said, "Play as long as you can because you are a long time retired"
DB10GOONER wrote:Inspired by the worst away ground thread. What is the worst place you've ever played football at?
For me it would be Malahide in Dublin back in the early 1990's. A posh (ish) town but all their money went to the towel flickers so the local football team had no showers and the pitch was beside the one chav housing estate in the whole town. You'd often have crunts throw bottles over the wall from the estate onto the pitch during a game. And it always seemed to be raining and windy there too.
Close second (maybe level worst) was Tallaght (one of the roughest areas in Dublin). Games there nearly always ended up in a fight with the local hard men on the pitch. It was also the only place I've ever seen a referee get punched spark out during a game. We even had one game interupted by a local joyrider (Dublinese for car thief) driving onto and then doing "donuts" on the pitch for about ten minutes until the cops showed up and chased him off down the road...
You didn't get injured at these venues DB10...
actually, it's funny you should... nah, I didn't.
I'm not as injury prone as you'd think. You have to remember Frank, I'm 42, been playing 35 years mate. So if you space out my serious injuries (by serious I mean broken bones or bad ligament damage) over that time frame it's about one every 6 or 7 years. Which ain't bad. So I'm not due another serious one until about 2014 or so...
I've just started playing again after a year's break (after an injury) I must be a glutton for punishment, coz I was playing Vets football (over 35's) and now playing in an over 18 league, and I'm 45.
It's bloody hard, takes about 4 days to recover from a game, but I love it.
Keep it going mate.
Yeah. I didn't start playing in the over 35's until I was 40! Used to be running around kicking all these little 20 year old crunts in my 30's. But in fairness I've looked after myself (never smoked, watch what I eat, do kick boxing) and was fitter than most of them. I also still "bang" (not sure what term you use over there for an unregistered player that plays under someone else's registration) for my younger brother's team about once or twice a month.
Last year I was playing indoors on Saturday and over 35's outdoors on Sunday but the recovery time isn't there so the fucking knees and ankles would be fucked on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday!!
This year I'm concentrating on the indoors and just the odd run outdoors with the brothers team.
As a mate of mine that had to retire with a serious medial knee injury about 5 years ago has said, "Play as long as you can because you are a long time retired"
That would be "ringer" from my area - or R. Inger for the ref!
franksav63 wrote:
You didn't get injured at these venues DB10...
actually, it's funny you should... nah, I didn't.
I'm not as injury prone as you'd think. You have to remember Frank, I'm 42, been playing 35 years mate. So if you space out my serious injuries (by serious I mean broken bones or bad ligament damage) over that time frame it's about one every 6 or 7 years. Which ain't bad. So I'm not due another serious one until about 2014 or so...
I've just started playing again after a year's break (after an injury) I must be a glutton for punishment, coz I was playing Vets football (over 35's) and now playing in an over 18 league, and I'm 45.
It's bloody hard, takes about 4 days to recover from a game, but I love it.
Keep it going mate.
Yeah. I didn't start playing in the over 35's until I was 40! Used to be running around kicking all these little 20 year old crunts in my 30's. But in fairness I've looked after myself (never smoked, watch what I eat, do kick boxing) and was fitter than most of them. I also still "bang" (not sure what term you use over there for an unregistered player that plays under someone else's registration) for my younger brother's team about once or twice a month.
Last year I was playing indoors on Saturday and over 35's outdoors on Sunday but the recovery time isn't there so the fucking knees and ankles would be fucked on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday!!
This year I'm concentrating on the indoors and just the odd run outdoors with the brothers team.
As a mate of mine that had to retire with a serious medial knee injury about 5 years ago has said, "Play as long as you can because you are a long time retired"
That would be "ringer" from my area - or R. Inger for the ref!
we use "ringer" sometimes too.
Best one was "Paddy Murphy" back in the 1980's because it was the most Oirish name we could think of. Jaysus, the amount of "Paddy Murphys" that played football back then!!
I played for a local town and we had a player called 'Wayne Kerr' and that is serious, poor feker no wander he was always asked to repeat his name by the ref when he came off the subs bench
LeftfootlegendGooner wrote:I played for a local town and we had a player called 'Wayne Kerr' and that is serious, poor feker no wander he was always asked to repeat his name by the ref when he came off the subs bench
There was a famous Aussie rugby league player called Wayne Carr in the 1970's!
DB10GOONER wrote:
actually, it's funny you should... nah, I didn't.
I'm not as injury prone as you'd think. You have to remember Frank, I'm 42, been playing 35 years mate. So if you space out my serious injuries (by serious I mean broken bones or bad ligament damage) over that time frame it's about one every 6 or 7 years. Which ain't bad. So I'm not due another serious one until about 2014 or so...
I've just started playing again after a year's break (after an injury) I must be a glutton for punishment, coz I was playing Vets football (over 35's) and now playing in an over 18 league, and I'm 45.
It's bloody hard, takes about 4 days to recover from a game, but I love it.
Keep it going mate.
Yeah. I didn't start playing in the over 35's until I was 40! Used to be running around kicking all these little 20 year old crunts in my 30's. But in fairness I've looked after myself (never smoked, watch what I eat, do kick boxing) and was fitter than most of them. I also still "bang" (not sure what term you use over there for an unregistered player that plays under someone else's registration) for my younger brother's team about once or twice a month.
Last year I was playing indoors on Saturday and over 35's outdoors on Sunday but the recovery time isn't there so the fucking knees and ankles would be fucked on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday!!
This year I'm concentrating on the indoors and just the odd run outdoors with the brothers team.
As a mate of mine that had to retire with a serious medial knee injury about 5 years ago has said, "Play as long as you can because you are a long time retired"
That would be "ringer" from my area - or R. Inger for the ref!
we use "ringer" sometimes too.
Best one was "Paddy Murphy" back in the 1980's because it was the most Oirish name we could think of. Jaysus, the amount of "Paddy Murphys" that played football back then!!
Yes, ringer as Charlie advised, the thing is last week this guy I was marking was so quick I couldn't even get near him to kick him.... Oh well, at least I try, should be quite fit by the Sunderland game though....
Radford played semi-pro and can state that one year he had to play in cornwall one day during a FA Vase run. it was in the middle of fuck knows where and the locals were all related. it was their big day as a team from the london area was coming to town
As a teenager I played on a pitch in the grounds of a mental hospital. Some of the inmates were on the sidelines and as a left back I stayed as close to our centre half as I could! Really was like being watched by the full cast of One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest.
But in fairness I've looked after myself (never smoked, watch what I eat, do kick boxing) and was fitter than most of them. I also still "bang" (not sure what term you use over there for an unregistered player that plays under someone else's registration) for my younger brother's team about once or twice a month.
and that is serious, poor feker no wander he was always asked to repeat his name by the ref when he came off the subs bench 
