Were You Any Good At Football When Young ?

[Terrarian]

I was very good for my age group, played for the school levels above my grade, started struggling as I didn't grow as much as others and I found openage quite difficult at first until I moved to right back and then all was good. Never a pro though or even a semi pro.

 

[jazzy]

I loved playing football but was pretty terrible at it

However because I was naturally left footed I got a gig in the school team at left back.

I was an amalgam of Psycho and Baines yeah couldn't go forward like Baines and couldn't tackle like Pat.

I did have the distinction of being sent off in a school match once , which is pretty rare and scored as many times as I was sent off!

Ah well I made up for it in table tennis , but that's another story.

 

[jazzy]

Saturday and Sunday leagues as a box to box midfielder. When I moved away I didn’t play until the guy inThe flat below asked me to play for his team , who he said weren’t bad , but were short that weekend. So I did , scored the first goal after 5 minutes and the captain ran the length of the pitch , jumped on my back “ That’s the first goal we’ve scored this season “ !! I retired young at the end of that season, but forty years later returned to play Walking Fitba , great stuff and still scoring the odd goal now and then!

Yeah with your running ability I can see you as a box to box midfielder .

 

[spectateur]

Not very good but as one of the 6th formers available I was captain of the school team.
Played in the area school's final at Valley Parade. 1956. Yes 1956.
Grange beat St Beads 1-0.

 

[Eggs]

….yes, I was very decent. I scored 25 goals in 19 competition games for Liverpool Boys so I was quite high profile. I played County level.

I was in class one day and the school secretary came in to say the headmaster wanted to see me. I went into his office and Tom Saunders was there. Tom later became Bob Paisley’s right hand man at LFC. Also there was my Dad who’d they‘d collected from his works at the Dock.

The headmaster said the club were very keen to sign me so he was giving me the rest of the day off to visit the clubs stadium, training ground and meet with Bill Shankly. I signed that night.

I knew lots of clubs were after me, so did they as Everton came the next day. True story. Reality is, I never had an ambition to be a professional footballer, I knew even then it wasn’t for me. I have played on plenty of grounds and scored terrific goals at the likes of Old Trafford and Elland Road.

 

[Eggs]

Not very good but as one of the 6th formers available I was captain of the school team.
Played in the area school's final at Valley Parade. 1956. Yes 1956.
Grange beat St Beads 1-0.

…wow, 1956, good on you. Did you live in Bradford or was that where the final was?

 

[blueloon]

Yeah with your running ability I can see you as a box to box midfielder .

Haha I was always naturally fit so could run forever….plus I weighed about 8 1/2 stores in those days

 

[Old Blue 2]

At St. John's (Kirkdale) I played a year above my age group, so was hopeful of doing something in the game.

I passed the 11-plus and went to a school that played rugby, no football. In the 1960s there were no junior football teams or leagues. So I played rugby and cricket for 7 years at school (1st XV[scrum half] and 1st XI[opening bat & wicketkeeper]).

When I was in 6th form, I played a full rugby game for the school in the morning, and played Under 18 football for Brunswick Boys Club (Bootle) in the afternoon. I then started playing lead guitar in a Liverpool band that was getting regular week-end work in the night clubs, and so my playing 'tailed off'.

In my twenties I played I Zingari 1st Division, and Kirkby & District 1st Division (now that was a tough division to play in!).

 

[polish]

I played 18 minutes in 4th tier of polish league when I was 18 years old Was a solid center mid, but then life happened and it was over.

 

[Prevenger17]

I might well have been the most horrific footballer that ever lived. I controlled the ball farther than most people could shoot it

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Utterly gash. Last time I played people were visibly upset. I couldn’t care less though. Sniff it you pretend alpha males. I could still batter youse all in a bare knuckle boxing tournament.

 

[Nymzee]

Best 5-a-side player you'd ever see

 

[Nymzee]

….yes, I was very decent. I scored 25 goals in 19 competition games for Liverpool Boys so I was quite high profile. I played County level.

I was in class one day and the school secretary came in to say the headmaster wanted to see me. I went into his office and Tom Saunders was there. Tom later became Bob Paisley’s right hand man at LFC. Also there was my Dad who’d they‘d collected from his works at the Dock.

The headmaster said the club were very keen to sign me so he was giving me the rest of the day off to visit the clubs stadium, training ground and meet with Bill Shankly. I signed that night.

I knew lots of clubs were after me, so did they as Everton came the next day. True story. Reality is, I never had an ambition to be a professional footballer, I knew even then it wasn’t for me. I have played on plenty of grounds and scored terrific goals at the likes of Old Trafford and Elland Road.

You signed for the RS? Sticking you right on ignore

 

[cronullasharks]

Terrible, I played rugby league till I was about 16 which I was also terrible at then started playing football.

 

[spectateur]

…wow, 1956, good on you. Did you live in Bradford or was that where the final was?

Born Leeds, brought up in Bradford. Lived there till I was in my 20s.