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Anyone play Sunday league on here?

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Saddest day of my life when I stopped playing footie at 35 which in the end was in the Birkenhead Sunday League. I still get the shudders when I think of playing at Arrowe Park on a late February Sunday morning. So open the wind cut you in two. Forget the changing rooms, no benches just a muddy floor that hadn't been cleaned from the Saturday. Took ages for the League to realise the ice cream van that was there right through the winter months was flogging cans of ale.
 
degsy said:
My advice is - keep playing as long as you can, never stop until you really really have to, which means nobody will even let you have a spec as sub.
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Is right. The centre back in my team has played every season since 1982. Can't move very fast but still going strong.
 
Nearly twenty years at it now, not long to go til I pack it in now.

Used to be great craic years ago, few beers guaranteed after a game of a Sunday, great social aspect to it. Last few years that's changed, very rarely the away team stays on to have a pint or two, don't know why, maybe the way things are financially has had an impact.

We were top of our league with five to play before this virus interrupted proceedings, hardly get it finished now, talks of them running off the games real quick then straight into next season, they must reckon us Sunday league players have nothing else going on in our lives as I can imagine quite a few will want to spend time with family and do other things we've been unable to due to the virus.

Still you'd miss it all the same, by the end of every summer you do be glad to get back to it.
 
I played Sunday football in Leeds when there was only one division. (early 1960's) Five years later there were 15 divisions. I played in the semi-pro Yorkshire League on a Saturday but couldn't train twice a week as I worked away a lot, so Sunday football was an extra training session. It was also an excuse for a punch-up. I remember my first ever match, there were three fist fights going on in different parts of the pitch. The ref just ignored them and kept the game going. One of the teams in the league was made up of Rugby League players (mostly players from Batley Rugby League Club). Didn't start any punch-ups that day!
 

2004, my Predators got pinched off my passenger seat on the way to the semi final. Bastards, I loved those boots.
 
arch stanton said:
I used to play Saturday leagues and occasionally Sundays to keep fit. Sunday league is largely dogturd. Crap players, crap pitches, crap facilities, crap referees, no linesmen. I'd pick up way more injuries on the Sunday games because the players were fat slow thugs who couldn't play but could kick.
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Absolutely spot on mate. Most of them had been hammered the night before, thought they where dead 'ard. Tried to kick the living daylights out of any half decent player from the opposition then couldn't wait to get back to the ale house. My football career ended on a Sunday morning to one such bunch of (/?£ eads.
 
degsy said:
My advice is - keep playing as long as you can, never stop until you really really have to, which means nobody will even let you have a spec as sub.
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Good advice Degsy! It is worth moving to small sided footy though when the long sprints get a bit much! I did and still play regularly now. Best hour of the week (until Carlo makes us boss again!!) More touches in 5/6 a side and less hanging around!!
 
I played Sunday league many years ago on the Wirral which was enjoyable and full of characters, also in Braintree for a couple of years which was proper pub football and I
still literally have the scars to prove it.
Watching the blues on a Sunday apart from the odd game it never quite hits the atmosphere of a Saturday afternoon for me.
 

In the '70s I played in the First Division of the Kirkby & District Sunday League for The Melrose. Same time as John O'Leary played in it. He was different class altogether, and should have played at a far higher level.

Also played Saturdays in the I Zingari First Division for Stoneycroft.
 

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