bump herelondon fancy a kick about again FAKA?
― Gary Numan, or Gary Fletcher (ken c), Thursday, 18 August 2011 15:00 (thirteen years ago) link
our game is in regent's park, near the hub. it's a very casual game but the standard isn't entirely terrible.
ronan played once, never to return. :(
― Upt0eleven, Thursday, 18 August 2011 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
ah that's good. i might come down next monday (weather permitting)
i'm shite though. are donks welcome?
― Gary Numan, or Gary Fletcher (ken c), Thursday, 18 August 2011 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
where's the I GOT IN A FIGHT FFS thread
― I diss you (cozen), Friday, 26 August 2011 19:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Played footy tonight for the first time in about 5 years. This is gonna sound really fucking stupid, but I'd forgotten how hard it is. Like, having to make split-second decisions, not having much time on the ball. My legs are really aching now.
― Chris, Friday, 26 August 2011 22:43 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah it takes a while to get back into it
― Richter scale? I hardly even knew 'er! (darraghmac), Friday, 26 August 2011 22:45 (thirteen years ago) link
― I diss you (cozen), Friday, 26 August 2011 20:17 (Yesterday) Bookmark
spill
― r|t|c, Saturday, 27 August 2011 00:21 (thirteen years ago) link
― Chris, Friday, 26 August 2011 23:43 (Yesterday) Bookmark
never fails to impress me in retrospect how mindless football is when you're playing well, at least for me anyway - so much instinctive reflex action, even (maybe especially) when you do something that seems outside-the-box cerebral
― r|t|c, Saturday, 27 August 2011 00:26 (thirteen years ago) link
So true. I find in 5 a side on a good day passing is like a reflex, you just know where your players are and do first time passes.
― LocalGarda, Saturday, 27 August 2011 09:56 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.ianleake.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/herrigelzenarchery.jpg
"Do you now understand", the Master asked me one day after a particularly good shot, "what I mean by: 'It shoots, It hits?'""I’m afraid I don’t understand anything any more at all," I answered, "even the simplest things have got in a muddle. Is it ˆ I ˜ who draws the bow, or is it the bow that draws me into the state of highest tension? Do ˆ I ˜ hit the goal, or does the goal hit me? Is ˆ It ˜ spiritual when seen by the eyes of the body, and corporeal when seen by the eyes of the spirit or both or neither? Bow, arrow, goal and and ego, all melt into one another, so that I can no longer separate them. And even the need to separate has gone. For as soon as I take the bow and shoot, everything becomes so clear and straightforward and so ridiculously simple. . . . "" Now at last ", the Master broke in, "The bowstring has cut right through you."
― zvookster, Saturday, 27 August 2011 12:20 (thirteen years ago) link
not really a fight, just squaring up and buck style butting. the game's hard man went in hard on me and I called for a free kick and was told to 'fuck off, don't know what game you're playing.' this despite the fact and I'd got a kick up the arse and he was nowhere near the ball. so I thought 'fine whatever, what goes around comes around'.
next opportunity I went in hard myself, though a yard late. didn't actually hit him (or the ball to be fair) and took a kick right up the arse for my trouble. he turns round immediately 'don't fucking go in like that prick', squaring up. I pushed him away and told him to fuck off, giving it out but unwilling to take it. walked away and merked him five minutes later, had to resist doing the scott brown after scoring
tldr; both being fannies, all good's in the hood
― god hates frogbs (cozen), Monday, 29 August 2011 11:29 (thirteen years ago) link
two kicks up the arse and I'm the bad guy
guys like that don't get the text next game with us, thank fuck
― lolled @ 'timeboom' (darraghmac), Monday, 29 August 2011 11:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Knowing what you're going to do with the ball before you receive it, and executing it to perfection = best feeling ever.
― Chris, Sunday, 4 September 2011 15:29 (thirteen years ago) link
scored about 5 goals but we lost 23-22.
cramp in both legs and some minor vomming early due to terrible fitness levels. also carpet pitches man.
http://i.minus.com/i7OSiGBteA9JO.jpg
― caek, Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Kind of heart-shaped that isn't it, if you ignore the bit on the left. Beautiful.
― Chris, Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:31 (thirteen years ago) link
briefly contemplated googling up a how to shoot tutorial after recent woeful weeks
can't lie though, a good tackle will always mean more to me
― r|t|c, Friday, 16 September 2011 01:08 (thirteen years ago) link
i googled up a how to shoot tutorial a couple of days ago! My shooting has improved!!
tonight 5 a side we won by like 17-6
― Gary Numan, or Gary Fletcher (ken c), Monday, 19 September 2011 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link
i scored .... zero of the 17
knee looks like a burnt beefburger
― caek, Monday, 19 September 2011 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
yeeowch
Two hour game last night i was basically ronaldo, all feints, sways, dummies and startling power. Beautiful, simply beautiful.
― talking heads, quiet smith (darraghmac), Monday, 19 September 2011 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link
played for first time with my (relatively) new work tonight..was good, decent balance of fun and competition. think i raised expectations in the first minute after blazing a really nice outside right shot into the bottom corner from a fair bit out. missed a few total sitters later on, including one from about 3 yards, almost carbon copy of iwelumo.
also had one major hollywood pass, teammate didn't convert but it got a bit of kudos, was out on right wing and bent the ball on outside right, really fizzed it around two defenders onto the dude's foot.
fairly gruelling game, about 80 mins with no break. but running a lot lately so felt pretty good.
― When a German communicates, you listen (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
rah
This week i have scored:
A little eyebrows flick from a kickout
A proper diving header (felt awesome)
A couple fifteen yarders after runs from midfield
One instep chipped-flick on the 360 turn
NB a post on what i've missed and my shitty passing would be much longer
― occupy wall street 2: rummy never sleeps (darraghmac), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
my passing is prob my best attribute...my shooting is pretty bad. i'm a v bad instinctive shooter, i can drive it in if i'm on the ball, but my first time shot is truly shit. possibly cos i've not played since may or so though.
― When a German communicates, you listen (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
it's all in your other foot, that.
My strengths vary depending on the game. I've got two games a week that're usually four a side on a seven a side pitch and i can struggle tbh, but you get lots of shots in, then have another game that's a settled six a side on a bigger pitch, more time on the ball, get to stroke it around a bit.
Variety spice of life etc
― occupy wall street 2: rummy never sleeps (darraghmac), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
from a peach inswinging cross from the right i've only gone and done a zola instep volleyed flick through the keeper's legs brian
Scored over half the goals in a 25-20 loss over two hours in the rain, the few games a week are starting to pay off
― waning white energy (darraghmac), Monday, 23 January 2012 01:15 (twelve years ago) link
srsly guys a ZOLA INSTEP VOLLEY FLICK
― waning white energy (darraghmac), Monday, 23 January 2012 12:28 (twelve years ago) link
It's like going out with some pals for karaoke, and Aretha Franklin shows up.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 23 January 2012 12:52 (twelve years ago) link
well all i'm asking is for a little respect tbf
― waning white energy (darraghmac), Monday, 23 January 2012 13:38 (twelve years ago) link
Didn't score but played 11 aside for the first time in years today. A lot different from the usual 3.5 aside I play and also pretty terrifying. Good fun tho. We got a 3-3 draw which wasn't for our first match.
― kid steel (cajunsunday), Saturday, 18 February 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
backheel volley from a ball over the top, ten yards out, in off post
Twenty-odd yard volley from a headed clearance
Curled pass into the far bottom corner using the defender as a screen
fergie fergie sign him up
― steep? that's where i'm off hiking (darraghmac), Monday, 27 February 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
move over Rivaldo v Valencia
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 27 February 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
slightly lower stakes, but the fat lad's only amateur tbf
― steep? that's where i'm off hiking (darraghmac), Monday, 27 February 2012 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
ran to beat defender to a bouncing ball heading away from goal, got there in time to spin 180 degrees and face him without addressing the ball, which is now in the air coming down directly behind me- heelflick it over both our heads and nip round him before he knows arse from tit, megs on goalie to finish. guapa.
― pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
pics or it didn't happen
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 01:40 (twelve years ago) link
i know, i know- even for me, it's fading like narnia already ;_;
― pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 01:43 (twelve years ago) link
my shooting is pretty bad. i'm a v bad instinctive shooter, i can drive it in if i'm on the ball, but my first time shot is truly shit. possibly cos i've not played since may or so though.
― When a German communicates, you listen (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 23:21 (6 months ago) Bookmark
jesus tell me about it, my brain will explode from fury cos of this soon
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 09:08 (twelve years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RwOL2ljia4o/Tcfhy4YHtGI/AAAAAAAAK0o/N7JJm4AddZ0/s1600/Osvaldo+Ardiles+escapetovictory1981dvdr.png
"and then the crowd ran onto the court and smuggled me out under the noses of the watching gardaí"
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 11:40 (twelve years ago) link
do we have enough ILF london for another FAKA?
― Rosie 47 (ken c), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 12:25 (twelve years ago) link
i'm in watford in sep/oct sometime...
― pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 12:36 (twelve years ago) link
That's close enough - let's do this, ILF!
― Rosie 47 (ken c), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 12:40 (twelve years ago) link
it's penalty shootouts for us darragh
― Rosie 47 (ken c), Thursday, 10 May 2012 12:12 (twelve years ago) link
I'll come along if in Watford on whatever day you choose, but I likely won't be I'm afraid.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 10 May 2012 12:20 (twelve years ago) link
i likely won't be myself, tbh. watford/london trips tend to be shopping dominated affairs
― pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Thursday, 10 May 2012 12:36 (twelve years ago) link
Enjoy your keepie-uppies Ken
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 10 May 2012 12:47 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmk1iStpovo
― Rosie 47 (ken c), Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
i played football (and tbh exercised in general) for the first time in over ten years last night. haven't tried to drag myself out of bed yet today, i suspect my legs won't be able to take it. don't think i SCORED A GOAL actually, amidst goalkeeping incompetence it seemed that i was the only person having shots saved. that rvp-style volley from a long ball falling over my head would've been a cracker too.
― Merdeyeux, Sunday, 13 May 2012 13:27 (twelve years ago) link
Any ilfers who fancy joining my weekly game (Ken, I'm looking at you esp) in Regent's Park on Monday nights are more than welcome.
As Ronan can attest to the standard, a guaranteed way of increasing your post rate on this thread.
― Upt0eleven, Sunday, 13 May 2012 13:35 (twelve years ago) link
filling my boots with long range volleys, half volleys and turn-and-hits this past few weeks, joined a new game in dublin and am surprised and pleased to have been marked out as a player to watch each week. What age was kevin philips when he made it?
― Ну, там твое место, там сабе будь! (darraghmac), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
a
― deems irreverent (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 23:12 (twelve years ago) link