Is it the Questra, the Tango, the Fevernova, the Roteiro?
― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 6 June 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)
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Miscellaneous (inc. the Finale, the Nike balls, &c.)
― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 6 June 2004 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)
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The Mitre Multiplex (the 'thigh hurter', famed from PE lessons and Northern poets) /
The Mitre Delta (what happened to these? I can't find them on this page) /
The SPL Ball― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 6 June 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)
I like how, however many newfangled designs etc are introduced, the
iconic football is still the pure black-pentagons-and-white-hexagons one seen in the logo of the website linked to above.
― OleM (OleM), Sunday, 6 June 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)
do you remember the version of the iconic football OleM mentions which had the name of a different top football club on each of the hexagons?
― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 6 June 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)
The Durlast from the '74 world cup. Conjurs up memories of constant blaring of horns throughout the game and Coleman screaming ONE NIL! down the shittiest phone line ever.
― mike donnelly, Sunday, 6 June 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)
olem so OTM it hurts. I bought one a few years back, but it was sadly badly stitched - I didn't realise at the time it was a child-stitched ball.
― Dave B (daveb), Sunday, 6 June 2004 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)
The Mitre Delta is king. The Tango was always too hard for some reason but looked cool. Mitre Mouldmaster = scourge of winter PE. I don't like these modern balls, they seem too fancy namby pamby.
Yeah, those mini-footballs were pretty great. Great for breaking your mum's house, that is.
― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 6 June 2004 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)
I like the modern balls because they all seem to come in two models: the expensive one (normally about £60) and the everyday one (about £12) and for the life of me I can't understand the difference. there must be difference.
the mitre delta can run away from me really fast because I don't like it and have never liked it. I had a turqoise one I kicked over a too-high wall and lost. good riddance. I don't like the panelling. hexagons, please.
the tango is king of balls, a design classic, which, watching old footage of the 1982 world cup, seems to fly like arrows of fortune. towards the goal. I'm not sure I ever played with a tango.
balls I've played with, or owned: questra, fevernova, nike geo, the first nike ball (plain white, with blue tick), mitre multiplex, various mitre deltas, mitre spl, various fly-aways. I hate fly-aways.
― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 7 June 2004 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)
five years pass...