I SCORED A GOAL FFS

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

i scored .... zero of the 17

knee looks like a burnt beefburger

yeeowch

Two hour game last night i was basically ronaldo, all feints, sways, dummies and startling power. Beautiful, simply beautiful.

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.

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

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.

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

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

srsly guys a ZOLA INSTEP VOLLEY FLICK

It's like going out with some pals for karaoke, and Aretha Franklin shows up.

well all i'm asking is for a little respect tbf

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.

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

move over Rivaldo v Valencia

slightly lower stakes, but the fat lad's only amateur tbf

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.

pics or it didn't happen

i know, i know- even for me, it's fading like narnia already ;_;

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.

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jesus tell me about it, my brain will explode from fury cos of this soon

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"

do we have enough ILF london for another FAKA?

i'm in watford in sep/oct sometime...

That's close enough - let's do this, ILF!

it's penalty shootouts for us darragh

I'll come along if in Watford on whatever day you choose, but I likely won't be I'm afraid.

i likely won't be myself, tbh. watford/london trips tend to be shopping dominated affairs

Enjoy your keepie-uppies Ken

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmk1iStpovo

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.

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.

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?

a

fuckin

BICYCLE

shinned it tbf

tbitwp

fu, 'b'

i'm assuming it's not 'better', for a start

THO IT FUCKIN SHOULD BE

http://craicmusic.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/rob-kelly-black-irish-logo.jpg

assumed it referred to my pre-transplant twp hairline

the wikipedia page for black irish starts with

Black Irish is an ambiguous term used mainly outside of Ireland.[citation needed]

and gets worse from there

i was gonna say i've never heard it

no wait wasn't it used in charlie's angels full throttle

but outside of that, no

hmmm, try this

http://www.mickopedia.org/mickify.py?topic=black+irish

There is a significant difference between peoples of the west and the east of Ireland

tell you what tho it's not all bullshit

john giles is black irish imo, succeeds on his wits and skulduggery, finding his antithesis in the lowland british game lads with their sense of fair play, protestant work ethic and self-righteousness

it just refers to iniesta lookin irish ppl, kinda boring tbh

have giles's autobiog in the locker atm lookin forward to tales of how he met his wife at the dance and sneaking off for sly bitters under the nose of his landlady

gonna read the shit out of some irish mythic origin legend tonight i think