[Football] NCS’s most talented footballer?

[Herr Tubthumper]

My only claim to fame in football is that I played on the QPR astroturf.....only after it had been dug up and sold to my university and relaid as an all weather 5-a-side and hockey pitch.

 

[tstanbur]

I was (and still am) a rubbish footballer, as several regulars on here will confirm (@Jack Straw , @WATFORD zero) but I was once booked by an FA Cup final and Fifa-listed referee.

At a college reunion a few years ago, the bloke who was our football club secretary mentioned that anyone who had ever been booked while he was in charge had been booked by David Elleray. He knew this because, as secretary, he was sent all notifications of bookings so that we could pay the (negligible) fines, and Elleray was the only referee officious enough to book players at that level. He remembered the name as it was quite unusual.

The booking was for dissent, specifically for complaining that the ball was too hard. He claimed it couldn't be because he had checked it himself. I recall pointing out something to the effect that he 'didn't have to head the f***ing thing.' And I might well have called him a bad word after that, but it was about 50 years ago, so we have to rely on the balance of probabilities ...

Was he bald?

 

[Boroseagull]

I played for Brighton Boys back in the the 50's. Do I win?

 

[Fignon's Ponytail]

44th Brighton Cub Scout "Triple Champions" c.1984/85.

We were the Man City of Brighton cubs football under Dave Burt.

'Nuff said

 

[Mackenzie]

I will happily argue that I'm the worst. Played goal for brighton college seconds, a school where anyone half good at sport played rugby, and made one appearance for the firsts where we duly lost 7-1, despite the best efforts of @Mackenzie at centre half to save my blushes.

Frustrating that i understand the game inside out, but my feet are just useless. Have managed to coach my daughter to become a league footballer at 17 though, she actually used to think i was quite good until the penny dropped at age 10

We might not have been world beaters, but we’ve both retained a love for the game and passed it on to our (more talented) kids, that’s a win in my book

 

[Triggaaar]

I picked the ball up in our half, dribbled it the whole way (past one defender) to the 6 yard box and scored. Only to be given offside. Gutted doesn’t even come close.

You started in your own half, and were given offside? And there was a defender for you to dribble past too? Madness.

(yes I know that you could have been in their half when the pass was made to you, but did that really happen? I blame VAR)

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Played for Chailey until 77. Had a green shed, no showers, with Old Trafford sprayed on the front but absolutely glorious views of the downs, handy to gaze upon when you're 3 nil down!

 

[Gwylan]

My only claim to fame in football is that I played on the QPR astroturf.....only after it had been dug up and sold to my university and relaid as an all weather 5-a-side and hockey pitch.

I've actually played at Stamford Bridge, used the home team's dressing room and everything.

Sadly, it's not a reflection of my abilities as a footballer, I'd be comfortably in the bottom five percent of NSCers. I knocked around in some of the lowest echelons of football before realising I had better things to do with my time

 

[Boroseagull]

Played for Chailey until 77. Had a green shed, no showers, with Old Trafford sprayed on the front but absolutely glorious views of the downs, handy to gaze upon when you're 3 nil down!

Wow! That's some age to play to

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Did you ever get any sniff for London Fire Brigade in the Corinthians league

Are you calling him a drug dealer?

 

[super-seagulls]

Nope. Burned into my memory as if it were yesterday.

It was the only goal I ever scored and some dimwit Lino flagged me offside even though I got the ball in my own half.

I was a truly awful baller. This was my one and only half decent 30 seconds and he robbed me. Robbed me, I tell you.

Still, at least I’m over it now.

Had all but one of the other players stopped playing because they saw the flag?

 

[BBassic]

I once made a single appearance for my Scout troops team.

So I think I probably win this particular contest.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I got one game for HGSB firsts when half the sixth for was off on a geography field trip or some-such.

 

[Kosh]

I got scouted for Newcastle utd under 10s, but the coach decided I was too small for the age group, and thus my dreams of representing the Toon were left in ruin

I was gutted to be fair… I got spotted playing in a cub scouts regional tournament… running rings round the other kids… but back then if you were small, you really had to be Messi to make it :/

After that, well I discovered guitars and Amps and got sick of the hard man footballing mentality abound in the north east…

Mind you, I did score a nice overhead kick last week for the Alnwick Town seniors (lol) … still got it ️

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

I was a goalie. My team played against a Japanese team on some Puma sponsored tour of the UK. I think we were about 16.

Southwick Football Club, under the floodlights. I get the nod for the 2nd half.

They got a free-kick just outside the box. The guy hit a rocket towards the far post and I dived full stretch arching my back and everything. Made an absolute worldie save and tipped it behind for a corner. I got a LOT of praise for that save and didn't concede for the rest of the game. I was high on life.

I didn't tell anyone except my Mum that I had in fact not saved that shot. It hit the post, hit my hand and bounced out for a corner.

 

[Pevenseagull]

I reckon being an unused sub in a number of games for a team that finished 3rd bottom of Lewes and District Sunday league division 6 in the mid 90s is a fair indication that it's not me.

 

[Questions]

I know a poster on here who played for Littlehampton Town and once commanded a transfer fee to Arundel. The fee being a bag of balls.

That’s a load of balls then.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Absolute bobbins at football, so I'm out. Primary school team was as far as I went – I defected to rugby by secondary school. Special mention to a mate who, when we 'broke in'* to the Goldstone one day, attempted a penalty at the North end (with no goalie) and missed completely

*walked through the car park and hopped onto the pitch – the place was deserted.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

No matter the level of football played .... am I the only one who occasionally thinks during a game "I'd have gone far post ......", "needed the outside of his boot there ...." etc.

 

[Questions]

We won the Worthing junior cup in 1968 playing for Atomic United.
There was only two teams in the competition and we bought our own cup.
I came on aged 8 for the last 5 minutes.
Then we watched WBA beat Everton in the afternoon cup game on the TV.
I couldn’t sustain playing at that level for long though.