Football rules from childhood games

[The Pointer]

Every game played with a constant David Francie commentary.

"It's a driiiiiiive - and oh my goodness!"

[IlDiavola]

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Every game played with a constant David Francie commentary.

"It's a driiiiiiive - and oh my goodness!"

What a stramash.

[WoreTheGreen]

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Every game played with a constant David Francie commentary.

"It's a driiiiiiive - and oh my goodness!"

Or waaannn niiiillll as Coleman would say

[JeMeSouviens]

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Every game played with a constant David Francie commentary.

"It's a driiiiiiive - and oh my goodness!"

Any excuse ...

[leithsansiro]

Oh man, I am loving this thread! Isn't it cool everyone recognises these games in their own versions? Slightly sadly, I doubt kids would having similar experiences nowadays.

On a related point, reading this thread brought back memories of the day that some boy painted a goal frame (with a squint crossbar) using white gloss paint on the gable end of an elderly woman's house in our estate. It made for a cool pitch, for about an hour, until her grown up son arrived (i suppose she'd phoned him) and threatened to batter "whichever little p***k painted that f***ing thing". My vocabulary of swear words grew massively a nine year old that day.

[IlDiavola]

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Or SEVEN niiiillll as Coleman would say

That better?

[Hibernia&Alba]

Walley - played with either a tennis ball or a football. Great at school, off the gym or assembly wall. Everyone had to hit the wall with only one touch, taken in turns. If you missed your shot you were out. If you were quick enough, you'd take your shot before the ball stopped, when it was your go.

[Hibernia&Alba]

Neighbour complaints about the ball were relayed to your maw, but any serious issue, such as a broken window, would be escalated to "wait til yer da gets hame". The **** had hit the fan.
"Aw naw, don't tell da. It was an accident; cover for me, maw"

[WoreTheGreen]

nae balls were allowed in our playground so we played with wee orange juice cartons

[Scouse Hibee]

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Yes I am sure that those in England similarly used Rangers and Celtic as Scottish teams.

Nah we used English teams, never really heard of Rangers and only knew of Celtic because of Dalglish.

[Scouse Hibee]

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Walley - played with either a tennis ball or a football. Great at school, off the gym or assembly wall. Everyone had to hit the wall with only one touch, taken in turns. If you missed your shot you were out. If you were quick enough, you'd take your shot before the ball stopped, when it was your go.

We called it SPOT every miss gave you a letter, once you had spelled SPOT you were out.

[HappyAsHellas]

We were not allowed any balls at Leith Walk primary (late 60's) so had to use a ball made of rolled up socks. Only rule was get your socks in quick because the last pair used were stretched to buggery and full of holes at the end of the game. The worst or fattest player was always the goalie and instantly pilloried if he failed in his duties.

[jodjam]

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We were not allowed any balls at Leith Walk primary (late 60's) so had to use a ball made of rolled up socks. Only rule was get your socks in quick because the last pair used were stretched to buggery and full of holes at the end of the game. The worst or fattest player was always the goalie and instantly pilloried if he failed in his duties.

Sock ball at Trinity in the 70’s as well

[Firestarter]

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Oh man, I am loving this thread! Isn't it cool everyone recognises these games in their own versions? Slightly sadly, I doubt kids would having similar experiences nowadays.

On a related point, reading this thread brought back memories of the day that some boy painted a goal frame (with a squint crossbar) using white gloss paint on the gable end of an elderly woman's house in our estate. It made for a cool pitch, for about an hour, until her grown up son arrived (i suppose she'd phoned him) and threatened to batter "whichever little p***k painted that f***ing thing". My vocabulary of swear words grew massively a nine year old that day.

Football was great back in the day either in car parts diving about on gravel or even making class sets of goals made of found you found or steel barriers, never happens now and I'm only talking 20 years ago. The pitz was a massive privilege and everywhere I used to play has no ball games and or massive long grass or houses built. Cannae even remember the last time I seen a group playing on a bit of grass outside houses or even playing kurbie. Led to great team work and learning young, selling golf balls on the courses going in bushes to find them summer holidays where amazing and I hated being in. Now my boy goes tonto if he can't get on his Xbox.

[WoreTheGreen]

Simple question did all jannys have a limp?

[Sammy7nil]

The ubiquitous drunk guy coming out the pub at afternoon closing time running on the pitch trying to kick the ball
Always too pished to play but the always tried.

[Sammy7nil]

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Simple question did all jannys have a limp?

Yes and a crew cut

[WoreTheGreen]

The Meedies or the Meadows as called now on a summers night or Sunday morning you could not see the grass for take on's today nothing apart from students playing fizbee

[snooky]

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And we wonder why Scottish football has been left behind by other smaller nations

It died when they removed the tanner from circulation. Naebody could buy a baw anymare.

[WoreTheGreen]

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Yes and a crew cut

And a great choice of pens in his top pocket

[Firestarter]

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Yes and a crew cut

Nah ours was fat and bald and was like the fat controller on Thomas. Great guy. Gutted when I heard he had died.

[Lago]

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Mind when you were a kid, 'playing oot' with pals and you'd be having twenty-a-side on the local park or in the street. What were the improvised rules you used? Remember these....

Fly goalie - keeper could also be an outfield player and was allowed to join in attacks.

Any man goalie - Any player could save a shot with their hands, but it was still handball if it wasn't a shot on goal.

Next goal wins - Losing 12-3 and need to go home for your dinner? Nae bother, shout 'next goal wins' and the score returns to 0-0 regardless of score. This has to be agreed by both teams.

Nae affside - this means both teams could employ the 'goal hanger', who was available for the long ball. Etiquette dictated that only one goal hanger per team was permissible. More than one was 'cheatin'.

Penalty spot was 'ten steps' from the goal. Pacing out the steps was controversial; they had to be ordinary walking steps and not huge strides. Dispute of the steps required a re-count with everyone counting out loud to ensure the ten were correctly prescribed.


Any other rules you had?

Can't remember any rules, we all chased after the ball like a pack of dogs.

[MyJo]

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nae balls were allowed in our playground so we played with wee orange juice cartons

I remember several games at school where nobody had brought in a ball so we had to make do with an empty plastic irn-bru bottle instead........sometimes even getting a half filled one on the go which made for a half-decent scud missile when you caught it just right

[McD]

Walley - our primary school had a funny layout of walls and sloped grass and slabs round it, you had to hit one particular wall section. A skilled player could angle the ball to arc along a slope, or even better round the corner, which meant you had to be quick to catch the ball and get your one hit in before it got too far. Made you appreciate all sorts of gradients and angles

10-21er - half time and full time

pairs - one goalie and every else in pairs. Never threes, only pairs or sometimes singles. Was a pisser if you were the first lot out, we used to end up with 5-6 paurs sometimes.

speech play - was considered bad form to shout to put off a player about to shoot, and often resulted in a penalty for the shooter if they used that as their excuse for making an erse of the shot

slow players trying to incorporate a rule that faster players weren’t allowed to just knock the ball past a slow one and sprint by (usually laughed at but funny to think about, I was a faster one)

Hits it gits it

everybody knowing that regardless of who owned the ball, when the auld prick who hated us playing fitba at the field came out, whoever was closest grabbed the ball and we all scattered

the measure of whether a shot had gone just under or just over the bar being based on whether it went over the fence some distance behind the goals or not

[beensaidbefore]

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7 byes at my bit.

I mustn't have played as much as anyone else, it seems.

That was it

[Golden Bear]

A player with lesser skills could only get a game if he happened to appear with a guid 'ba.

[erin go bragh]

Before picking your teammates. Two people would play tick tack with their feet( starting about five feet apart ) Whoever stood on the other persons foot first got first pick .

[SideBurns]

I mind taking my ba' tae school circa 1978/79. As owner of said ba', I naturally had the authority to decide who got a gemme. A laddie offered me a Panini sticker of Hearts 'star striker' Wullie Gibson if I'd let him play. He got a gemme, but I didnae bother taking the sticker...the daft things ye remember..

[Iggy Pope]

5-11 or 10-21 if it was a big take on.

Cross-in with heiders only in a box set out carefully with discarded jumpers.. Volleys only outside the box. Byes the goalie got a goal.Three corners the strikers got a penalty.

Long bangers.
One touch long bangers!

Kerby if you had an empty Iona street.

Benchy if you had an empty Iona steeet swing park, double goals if you headed it through the gap.

If there was more than 4 of us wed play a game in the backies. Boot it as high and hard as you can. Next man had to get to it before it stopped moving and do the same. Repeat until buggered. Didn't half shed the Angel Delight.

Ventured Doon the Links,and played 'Barry' decades before Soccer AM.

Wish I was 10 again. Hibs were ****ing brilliant too!

[AgentDaleCooper]

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None of yous did a "post rebound"?

If the ball went over the pile of jackets the keeper had to take the ball, stand at the post facing away from the pitch and throw it backwards over his head.

I remember that!!!