Tall-Hammer 11:56 Tue Jan 22
What position do you/ did you used to play?
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Used to play in left midfield as I was normally the only left footed player in the team, but recently started playing in a competitive 6-aside league where I've found I'm actually better suited to playing as a centre back. Although I think that might be because years of smoking in the past and doing no exercise has left my fitness a bit fucked.
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Dowies Love Child
4:39 Thu Jan 24
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Glacial slow central midfielder who was tall, built like a brick shit-house and quite enjoyed crunching people. All good as far as it went but I had the skills of a rottweiler on roller-skates.
Quit football and went and played rugby instead where I became a rather handy front-rower.
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nerd
7:11 Wed Jan 23
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I played in the news on league up front , the joined the raf and depending on the team played all over. For the top teams at the raf I played left wing /back or right wing right back , played against the other services, Middlesbrough, Blackburn,Sheffield wed , Coventry and Argentina u21s they were unreal. When I started Sunday in my 30s,I was centre mid that's when I eventually got broke and my knees went. I wasn't particularly fast but intelligent,very good with ball and winning it, really fit as well just a lack of genuine pace so had to work really hard.
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Far Cough
6:10 Wed Jan 23
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Yeah I just spotted the relevant line and then posted
Too quick
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gph
6:08 Wed Jan 23
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Er, FC...
I'm guessing you didn't read the whole of that post
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Hello Mrs. Jones
5:54 Wed Jan 23
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After watching my 10 year old play once he asked me in the car how he played.
I told him that his coach was very happy with him and that I clearly heard him say that you were like Kaka in the first half and Shittu in the second.
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Far Cough
5:48 Wed Jan 23
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I was once likened to Terry Cooper ( Of Dirty Leeds fame )
You spelled Tommy wrong :-)
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Gavros
5:48 Wed Jan 23
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Speed and strength are the absolute key for determining who goes up front in secondary school. For the first three years our school football team employed the fact that this kid, ANWAR, was about 6 foot tall and could do the hundred metres in about 12 flat. So the strategy would be to get a hold of the ball, pump it into the channel, and let the cunt bolt after it. Many a cold wednesday you'd hear agass shouting out "RUN, ANWAR, RUN!".
Of course he was probably 30 in the first and by the time we were all 16 he was shit. He was also the ripest fucker i'd ever smelt. I remember one Saturday we were getting changed and he was still covered in the mud from wednesday's game.
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Bullet
5:40 Wed Jan 23
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Centre forward top scorer for school team several years running bagged six one game. Also played as right winger sometimes, had to give up due to same as Collison, fluid on knee.I was fast apparently and was given a nickname, see username.
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one iron
5:26 Wed Jan 23
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cf then ch then at 38 gk loved it.
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easthammer
5:25 Wed Jan 23
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As schoolboy - Inside Left
As a Senior Amateur - became an overlapping Left Back
(That was in the era of wingless wonders)
I was once likened to Terry Cooper ( Of Dirty Leeds fame )
Well to be honest what my manager said about my performance against Chesham Town when I was marking a guy called Len Worley ( an England Amateur International and the last amateur to play in Spurs first team.)
"Son you started that game like Terry Cooper but unfortunately you finished it like Tommy!"
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cygnet
9:56 Tue Jan 22
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Goal hanger
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Sarge
8:48 Tue Jan 22
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Second row.
When I played football it was either left back, centre back or keeper.
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Mike the Hammer
8:11 Tue Jan 22
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Dan M 3:32 Tue Jan 22
Ah..I was 81-87
We would have passed in the corridor but not on the field...
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Willtell
8:01 Tue Jan 22
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Cultured CB way ahead of my time and played until 49 although my last actual game was a friendly at The New Den at the age of 53......
I'm now 42 but lying....
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Jasnik
7:59 Tue Jan 22
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They call me the utility player.
Mainly on the left but can play on the right and cut in.
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lowermarshhammer
7:57 Tue Jan 22
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Post below is a copy of an earlier post from a Hugh Monteith KEEPER thread.
I recall playing just the ONE game up front for the under 11's or maybe under 12's, managed to score with a toe poke. Career record of a goal a game still intact.
My greatest save.
I was a between the sticksman in the pre back pass rule days.
School team, I was the second choice keeper; didn't get a game in the first year but as the first choice keeper started to doubled up as a quality midfield general I began to get picked and by the third year the position was mine.
Anyway one game I made what can only be described as the greatest save the world has never seen.
We have a corner lose possesion and a few seconds later their left winger is homing in on my goal and about 10 yards outside the left hand side of penalty box, I'm advancing towards him (just inside the box) to narrow the angle when the cheeky fucker tries to lob me.
I have to pedal backwards, reverse backflip and by the six yard line I'm completely horizontal about a foot above the ground I feel the fucking ball on the fingertips of my weaker left hand and I claw upwards with every fibre in my scrawny body.
My head turns round a split second later expecting to see the fucking thing in the back of the net but to my amazement it has arched up and over the bar and it bounces off a net stanchion.
CORNER.
We won 7-0 that day and even though it was over 30 years ago I still remember the beautiful sight of that ball bouncing up off the stanchion.
WHAT A FUCKING SAVE.
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Too Much Too Young
7:35 Tue Jan 22
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P.S.
*with skills after studying the 1976 Ken Jones - Soccer skills & tactics book*, which is full of West Ham.
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Too Much Too Young
7:30 Tue Jan 22
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Centre Back and always wore 6.
Retired on a league n cup double in 94/95 season.
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goose
6:21 Tue Jan 22
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anywhere across the middle but usually on the right.
my right peg is beckham-esque.
my Valsport boots were possibly the best football boots ever seen.
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SUM A DING WONG
6:16 Tue Jan 22
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Jim79,
I played against Mark Gower, for my District (Redbridge v Hevering).
I played in goal. He scored a diving header and we lost 3-0.
He was on Tottenham's books at the time.
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Alwaysaniron
6:03 Tue Jan 22
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Young Right Back
Prime Right midfield
Over 35 Right back
Over 50's 6 a side Centre forward and I am fucking lethal. What a waste of a clear natural talent ag ag ag
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