Headers and Volleys vs Three and In

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And what about rush goalies?

― Tag, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I always used to prefer headers and volleys. This was partly due to those reports you would see fairly frequently saying that Brazilian kids were so skilful because they practiced on their skills on the beach as opposed to the British tradition of getting into teams and playing two hour, 29-28 scoreline games. I thought headers and volleys would make me a better player. I don't think I was right in the end.

― Jonnie, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think it was allowed to bounce once in *our* games of headers and volleys. Headers and half-volleys, then. Except not really any headers. Perhaps we were just *passing*.

Which is why I'm a reasonable tennis player and terrible at football.

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Three-and-in, a classic example of the kind of game that if you win, you have to do something shit (ie be in goal).

― Pete, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The young boys equivalent of a job interview then.

― Jonnie, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

One bounce Michael? Jesus. That's weak. In our gang we wouldn't consider ourselves real men until we had spent the best part of an afternoon, until the sun was starting to set in some cases, trying vainly to get the ball to raise to vaguely volleyable height (i.e. above ankle level). It was like chickens in a yard, mate. Chickens in a

― Will, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yard. A thousand curses on my new shit computer. Did any body else have 'when and rush'? Everybody in goal and out-field, in other words.

― Will, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

We never seemed to manage to get two equally matched teams, which led to "you can have a three goal head start" most of the time. Determining the level of the crossbar was generally the most contentious issue. Shoulder height? Yes, but whose?

― MarkH, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't want this to turn into a "Kes"-esque story of schoolboy anguish, but my reasons for preferring "3 and in" are simply that without it, I'd have been permanently stuck between the sticks, thanks to the inexplicable "the short kid always goes in goal" law that dominated playground football. Lunacy, really. I bet that never happens in Brazil either.

― Tag, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hang on a minute - I don't think what I was describing was headers and volleys at all, but some game which involved keeping the ball (maybe a tennis ball) inside a painted box on the playground. No goals, no scoring - just pure soccer skillz, Ajax-style.

There was, of course, the much more rewarding "Boot the ball in the first-years' faces", which I personally never took part in, though naturally the activity had my tacit approval, as I did little to discourage the cruelty.

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

We used to play World Cup. Everybody was a specific country and it was all against all...to go through you had to score (so some poor chump had to be goalie)...the last person left without scoring went out...and then so on til there was a winner.

Headers and volleys would often turn into an argument about whether the ball went in on the half volley or not, and who would go in goal...Actually, anyone who scored an illegal goal (not volleyed or headed) had to go in...so, occasionally, there'd be meaness on the other players parts by allowing a pass to go in. It was attrition!

― james, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

fourteen years pass...

Headers and volleys 4 lyfe obv

― Soon all logins will look like this (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 February 2016 03:03 (nine years ago)

Yep

― Szechuan TV (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 23 February 2016 03:24 (nine years ago)

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Headers and Volleys vs Three and In - Discuss