[Football] Who recalls school football like this - Kes...

[Mackenzie]

We lost 7-1....

 

[HastingsSeagull]

Parker in my year had Gareth Barry and Dean Hammond. They didn't really need them to play to beat us very comfortably

 

[rocker959]

Brilliant film .

 

[maltaseagull]

Went to Westlain and we were pretty rubbish.
I think our football lessons were mostly spent trying to get the teachers woolly hat knocked off. (He had a large bald patch and a huge Bobby Charlton comb over

 

[Blues Rock DJ]

Brighton Hove and Sussex Grammar for me in the '60s.....teachers were Mike Smith and Mike Yaxley.......

 

[marlowe]

And just like the film, from my experience there was always a PE teacher who was a northern git. Probably a northern Yorkshire git too.

 

[seagullsoverlincoln]

Brighton Hove and Sussex Grammar for me in the '60s.....teachers were Mike Smith and Mike Yaxley.......

A little before my time but didn't Mike Smith go on to manage Wales?

 

[marlowe]

A little before my time but didn't Mike Smith go on to manage Wales?

It looks like he did according to wiki. It says he coached in grammar schools in Sussex.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Smith_(football_manager)

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Whatever happened to the old moldmaster footballs they used at schools? Get one of those blasted against your thigh on a winter morning and you'd be bruised for weeks

I know Reddish with dots on.

 

[Mr Bridger]

Proper football this

https://t.co/whVFiZGpbz

 

[Blues Rock DJ]

A little before my time but didn't Mike Smith go on to manage Wales?

indeed he did and Yaxley ended up as Albion's physio........unfortunately, none of their talents rubbed off on me !!

 

[el punal]

To save myself even more embarrassment I will try and keep the detail of this gory story to a minimum. I had to play in an inter-house match at school on a particularly wet and windy day on a complete pudding of a pitch. Our house team was the poorest (that's being generous!) with probably only four of us able to actually kick a ball. Yours truly was selected to play in goal.

Here comes the minimum bit - we lost 15-0. I was made man of the match as I saved THREE penalties. How bad were we? Apart from kicking off after each goal we only crossed the halfway line four times in the whole match. At least I had the Albion to console me!

 

[Sirnormangall]

Can't ever remember a game being postponed and the pitches were dreadful. The best (worst) was probably the sloping pitch in Ditchling Road when, if a shot missed the goal, the ball would be on its way down to Five ways

 

[Geoffbn2]

Come on there must be some people out there that recall a cold winters day PE lesson playing football with an over zealous teacher who thought he was Bobby Charlton or Kevin Keegan....

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And now i know what inspired Mike Dean to become a ref

 

[mooey]

I remember playing an inter form match and and winning 27 nil I was in goal and scored 1

 

[Dick Head]

Glad I was either the picker or tended to be one of the first picked. Some kids just didn't give a feck about football.

We had ex Albion starlet Andy Marchant running our lot.

A Stringer boy then? I was one of the kids that just didn't give a feck about (playing) football. I always 'forgot' my kit and got litter picking duty.

 

[Insel affe]

A Stringer boy then? I was one of the kids that just didn't give a feck about (playing) football. I always 'forgot' my kit and got litter picking duty.

What.....

Litter picking...

In our school the teacher would just stomp off into the locker room and come back out with some 1950's shorts that had never been washed and a string vest that Albert Steptoe would not be seen dead in, a pair of borstal break out pumps (perfect for muddy wet pitches) and throw them at the kids that "forgot" to take their kits,

 

[Meade's Ball]

A Stringer boy then? I was one of the kids that just didn't give a feck about (playing) football. I always 'forgot' my kit and got litter picking duty.

My general fear of the bemulleted c*nt of the north, Mr Dudson, kept me from playing football at school for the most part. I'd loiter, and play a bit of basketball instead. Or feign injury or illness each time.
I recall my friend being scythed down by Dudson, who he told to eff off in response. Dudson, of course, grabbed him by the collar to say: you can kick me, you can punch me, but don't bloody swear at me.

In terms of the film, the lad playing Kes is my dad's second cousin, and my dad's history teacher, I think, at school was Brian Glover.

 

[Is it PotG?]

My general fear of the bemulleted c*nt of the north, Mr Dudson, kept me from playing football at school for the most part. I'd loiter, and play a bit of basketball instead. Or feign injury or illness each time.
I recall my friend being scythed down by Dudson, who he told to eff off in response. Dudson, of course, grabbed him by the collar to say: you can kick me, you can punch me, but don't bloody swear at me.

In terms of the film, the lad playing Kes is my dad's second cousin, and my dad's history teacher, I think, at school was Brian Glover.

Used to hate metalwork. Made an out of shape gravestone design monogrammed key ring under Dudson's tutelage. Awful, simply awful.

 

[Dave the OAP]

I feel the bitterness and recriminations in that post...