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    Quote Originally Posted by Panda Bear View Post
    @Pen @ScousePig come back where r u guyz
    Ended up gaining promotions in both football and futsal since my last post and apart from a few minor injuries I’ve been enjoying football a lot. Our futsal season has been terrible and we’re going straight back down. What makes it annoying is that we’re pretty much a mid table team in our division, but due to ridiculous amount of trouble getting enough players to the games. Still, at least you get ridiculous amounts of time on the pitch. Now we’re five promotions away from the Finnish Premier league again.

    My left foots big toe will never grow back properly again

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    Playing my first ever game of 11-a-side tomorrow. I'm going to be fucking hopeless. Think I'll ask to play right back or right mid in order to minimize my impact.

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    I played right back once, it's glorious spot for avoiding responsibility. All you have to do is traverse your side, stay vaguely in line with your three mates, and if you allow a cross to come in and they score you can just blame the poor marking in the middle.

    At one point I remember knocking a cross in from deep (a shit one) and thinking woah woah woah, no more of that thank you, I'll stay anonymous.

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    I'm managing our clubs second team. We had a terrible run recently losing 5 including 2 in the cup. Massively frustrating but today was better drawing v the top of the league. One for you Jimmy - we have a game at the Honourable Artillery Corp ground next week which is in the city near Moorgate.

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    Managing is the best eh.

    That place is full of the rah-est people you will ever meet. Also costs an absolute fortune to hire (for cricket anyway) so whoever plays there must either be some kind of in-house team or absolutely loaded.

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    It's the in house team so they likely pay nothing.

    Managing is good but there's some right egos you have to manage and you do find it starting to creep into your week as you think about formation and team talks. We've got six teams so always a challenge trying to get fairness in selection especially when you're dropping a player and they drop out into the player pool. Good politics

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    I've been playing in an indoor league the past few months. My team is so shit that I might be one of the best players, which explains why we have won only one match in sixteen (against a team that hasn't won a single one). Still, it's fun to play in an offensive position.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kikó View Post
    It's the in house team so they likely pay nothing.

    Managing is good but there's some right egos you have to manage and you do find it starting to creep into your week as you think about formation and team talks. We've got six teams so always a challenge trying to get fairness in selection especially when you're dropping a player and they drop out into the player pool. Good politics
    It's great fun, especially the 'I can only play at home this week' cunts, 'I won't play for that manager/captain as I don't like him', 'I deserve a chance in that position', 'I'm better than that level'... I imagine the exact same dynamics in my sport to yours.

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    Yep. Absolute nightmare. One kid who is talented I've had to dump as he's completely toxic. I subbed him at 70 and he stormed off and then called me a "shit manager". Chill out mate, there's people who travelled an hour and are only getting 20 minutes. Shut up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dino View Post
    Playing my first ever game of 11-a-side tomorrow. I'm going to be fucking hopeless. Think I'll ask to play right back or right mid in order to minimize my impact.

    It went pretty well. I reckon I'll be a lot better at 11s than I am at smaller games. Cerebral player, me. Next Busquets.

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    Was it a league or just a group of friends?

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    Yeah cerebral palsy!

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    Played tonight for the first time in about 6 months, was fucked after about 10 mins. It's great being so shit though, I made one decent goal saving slide tackle and scored a goal and got plenty of semi-patronising praise like "wow fair play mate, decent finish", so got to walk around kicking people the rest of the time.

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    We have a cup final this weekend - remnants of the end of last season finally concluding. One week back playing and training and I've already lost my big toenail.

    Also bought one of those statsport trackers because I am a stat geek:




    Be interesting to see if my pace increases as I get fitter. (I played right back)

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    Were you social distancing from the touchline second half?

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    Inverted wing back.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    Were you social distancing from the touchline second half?
    I have no idea what's happened with that. You set the pitch boundaries and it seems to think I was hogging the right then moving out centrally in the middle in the second half - maybe we were defending more so I went infield?

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    Somebody figure out who he plays for so we can send Giggles and Lewis to the cup final.

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    Head over to Roehampton, have a grand day out.

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    What is the device Kiko? Do you wear it or is it fitted somewhere?

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    statsports - it's a GPS tracker

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    Lol Kiko wears a bra.

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    Has anyone kicked one of those new Nike premier league balls yet, to see if they’re pseudo-flyaways?
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    We're not getting something like the Jabulani in the Premier League are we?

    Season saved.

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    Was that the one that bounced a lot?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ian View Post
    We're not getting something like the Jabulani in the Premier League are we?

    Season saved.
    Maybe. It’s a revolution in aerodynamics, apparently.

    Maybe that Scholes goal against Mexico(?) will be recreated.
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    I'd forgotten that Scholes goal entirely.



    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post
    Was that the one that bounced a lot?
    Swerved and dipped seemingly at random is my recollection.

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    Played football yesterday and the game was officiated by Michael Stoddard, an ex Premier League referee who in his last game sent off Fabrizio Ravanelli for Boro against Wednesday in 97. Anyone remember him? It was just before my time.

    Interesting bloke. This was the 4301st game of his refereeing career, which is mental. It was just a Sunday league game of pretty low standard, he got about 30 quid for it, but he clearly still loves the game and doing it.
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    Continuing the count to include Sunday league games is pretty sad.
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    Why? A game's a game, respect the grind.

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    https://www.manchestereveningnews.co...ef-dies-915519

    This fella used to live near me. Got to love the commitment.

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    Turns out he was the assistant ref in the match he mentioned.

    https://twitter.com/BoroThis/status/1218480066805583872

    Nice bloke. Quite refreshing to hear him talking so passionately about being a referee.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Baz View Post
    Continuing the count to include Sunday league games is pretty sad.
    How many Garden Soccer games was it again?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kikó View Post
    https://www.manchestereveningnews.co...ef-dies-915519

    This fella used to live near me. Got to love the commitment.
    Tom Clarke > Tom Moore

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    Are those of us who play still going? I'm 34 in June. Became a struggle this season. ONE MORE YEAR minimum though. Especially with covid writing off the best part of two seasons.

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    Yeah still playing. I dropped down a team this year (politics not because I'm no longer an ivory beast) and we lost the league on the final game of the season by 2 points. We actually restarted again and finished the season in 2 months but other leagues down here just reverted to only playing the cups.

    Recovery is definitely a bit harder but I don't really want to stop for a few years, legs permitting.

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    I still play twice a week in 7 a side leagues. Only 50 minute games though. The league organizers moved 11's to Sunday mornings from Wednesday nights just before 'rona and I cant be bothered waking up early to play in a league where teams continually play short.

    I am 35 in a few months but I reckon I have a few more years left in me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Danny View Post
    I still play twice a week in 7 a side leagues. Only 50 minute games though. The league organizers moved 11's to Sunday mornings from Wednesday nights just before 'rona and I cant be bothered waking up early to play in a league where teams continually play short.

    I am 35 in a few months but I reckon I have a few more years left in me.
    What's the standard like at your level there Danny? Are you just running rings around Yanks or are there enough foreigners to put a decent team together?

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    What are you implying?!

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    That Americans are shit at football.

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    I didn't think the safety wink was still necessary on TTH but I guess so.

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    Glad to be of help.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Raoul Duke View Post
    What's the standard like at your level there Danny? Are you just running rings around Yanks or are there enough foreigners to put a decent team together?
    When I was playing in college the standout players were typically the overseas players, its probably somewhat the same now but less chance of some bang average player from England wandering over and looking good.

    The general standard of the US/local players did improve towards to end though but it was in no way helped by the standard of high school football here being embarrassing. Especially when you consider how serious other sports are taken in high school. One of the local youth teams trains before I play on a Wednesday and you can tell the training/qualifications are paying off (its only been 15 years) because they actually look like they are trying to play football rather than just run harder and further than the other team, which is what it was like when I first moved here.

    Now though, the leagues I play in have such a mix of player. Some of the teams are made of players who look like they took up playing last week but then others have 4/5 college players who just look a level above. Thankfully I am on one of the latter teams but we are all in our mid 30's and probably need some younger legs!

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    High school football coaches, fucking hell. The biggest impediment to the improvement of the sport in the country.

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    From my experience with playing against the Yanks a decade ago was they were usually unbelievably fit (especially at five a side which narrowed the gap when all we did was drink [lads banter etc]). Another common trait was them describing their position as playing 'anywhere' which usually meant they were shit everywhere.

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    From my experience of having my brothers play them in '98, they're shit.

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    I still play too, but only 7 v 7 and futsal in the winter. After we had our child I just didn’t have the time and energy to keep training and it really started showing quickly. Actually had our first game today and whilst I wasn’t very good it was good fun. The technique is still there, but I’m very unfit.

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    Futsal is the best though. Can’t see giving that up anytime soon.

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