[Football] What is the longest any player has spent in possession of the ball (excluding goalkeepers)?

[GJN1]

Watching Levi Colwill stand on the ball in the middle of the pitch for an eternity against Arsenal, I wondered if there was a record for the longest time a player has kept the ball in a game? Don't mean over the course of the whole game but in one single spell of possession?

I have no idea why it matters to me.

 

[Pevenseagull]

Might be Corporal Luis Fernandez for Allies in Escape To Victory.

 

[Brok]

FDM used to be able to keep it for about half an hour, if we were winning.
Can't think of non-goalies though.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

FDM used to be able to keep it for about half an hour, if we were winning.

So you think he wasn't a goalkeeper? You'll find little support for that notion round here, me laddio

 

[Brok]

So you thing he wasn't a goalkeeper? You'll find little support for that notion round here, me laddio

Yea, I didn't read the title properly

But it must only be a matter of seconds surely? I doubt if a player has had the ball for more than a minute? I'm probably going to be wrong again.

 

[Cornwallboy]

Yea, I didn't read the title properly

But it must only be a matter of seconds surely? I doubt if a player has had the ball for more than a minute? I'm probably going to be wrong again.

Maradona for his second goal v England in 1986?

 

[Brok]

Maradona for his second goal v England in 1986?

About 9 seconds.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I believe Guy Butters in his first season at the Albion ate one accidentally, mistook it for a pie. They say it took him five days to complete the pass

 

[Baldseagull]

Got to be Charles Charlie Charles in the second half of Arsenal 1933 v Liverpool 1991, it's like the ball was glued to his foot.

 

[AmexRuislip]

One of the astronauts on the ISS, after catching Ulloas ball.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Yea, I didn't read the title properly

But it must only be a matter of seconds surely? I doubt if a player has had the ball for more than a minute? I'm probably going to be wrong again.

In normal play I can't see how a player can keep the ball for more than seconds.

Unless of course it's football legend Roy Race.

 

[Baldseagull]

It will be someone who took it to the corner flag and shielded it for ages.

 

[hart's shirt]

Helmut Haller was in possession of the 1966 World Cup Final ball for 30 years before it was returned to England in 1996.

 

[Bodian]

Heat map of last 10 minutes of Euro 2022 Lionesses win

 

[Weststander]

Vicente in an Amex game.

As three thugs in the opposition team were led a merry dance in trying to deprive him of the ball.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Watching Levi Colwill stand on the ball in the middle of the pitch for an eternity against Arsenal, I wondered if there was a record for the longest time a player has kept the ball in a game? Don't mean over the course of the whole game but in one single spell of possession?

I have no idea why it matters to me.

The kid that owns the ball and storms off home with the ball under arm when they didn’t get their own way I would have thought

 

[amexer]

Apart from when we score I rarely shout out but have to admit shouted out to Colwill to get on with it because we were losing.

 

[Charles 'Charley' Charles]

Got to be Charles Charlie Charles in the second half of Arsenal 1933 v Liverpool 1991, it's like the ball was glued to his foot.

Those were the days.

 

[Flagship]

Anyone remember Peter Knowles who played for Wolves. I once saw him sit on the ball in midfield before standing up again and carrying on with the ball.

His brother played for the Albion.

 

[TugWilson]

They wouldn`t play fair so i took the ball home , we started again the following week , so i claim the record ......well they had to learn .................bloody 7 year olds