I SCORED A GOAL FFS

all that runnin payin off for the young irishman

"admirable work rate" was more like "shit my close control is horrendous from lack of play, but I think I am fairly physically fit so I can try my best to do something which in my mind can constitute 'breaking up the play' and thus at least feel i've contributed"

had a few wild shots at goal too...

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Wayne?

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been getting into this band a lot lately...

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-NNnjVWJA9U/TORS0RSI8GI/AAAAAAAAAg4/ciwBGt-9udI/s1600/Stereophonics.jpg

you may have heard of them.

gotta log off actually, friend's granny is coming to visit and i need to let her into his flat.

o suuure

bump, what we been up to

goals not really a part of my game (phil neville/ian holloway persistent clogger with occasional delusions of vieiran elegance)

arrowed a nice one from a cutback right into the corner past a stubborn goalie to nick a tight game yesterday though, albeit with the suspicion i only got enough time to execute cos the defender thought i'd give it the customary shank

those stories i told on sep 26 are both true, fyi

Been carrying an injury for a few months, so i've been shitter than usual tbh. No great goals to relate.

Nando?

played last night and was rubbish at about a stone too heavy

playing again tonight, and will hopefully have some more talent around me

gutted the new france home doesn't give me +5 on all stats

jays would be nice to go back to the days of only one stone too heavy

Lol 30 next week huh

Michael Owen's only 31

ya but he's on a downward curve

crushed it last night btw

matchwinning last kick, cut in from left into box stepped over with left flicked it in off the post with right heel. Don't think anyone knows what i did tbh.

You want me to run the Player of the 10s poll right now, is that it?

ya while im hot

played well tonight, back in dublin with my old crew and some others i didn't know as well. opened the scoring after robbing the ball, was pleased, nice composed finish. later on tho we had a ridiculous flowing move, turned someone and did a one two with another player, with him back heeling the return pass. perfect one on one chance and i hit the post. we did score a great goal later on where i took a pass and then back heeled it to put another guy through.

my team was 3 really good mates, one young chap who knows a friend's younger brother, and this other loudmouth twat who was "a talker". you know those players who non-stop are like "let's use it lads" or slating everyone else etc. except he wasn't even that good. he had a go at the young bloke, who prob was about 20 and a much better player than most of us, so i fucking read him the riot act, was hilarious. "shut up and play football, all you're doing is talking shite". he barely said a word after. even his own friends were lolling and had a word with me after the game to say "fair play".

can't stand that "let's use it lads" or "support" generic shit when it's someone just spouting off.

i don't use the generic phrases but i do constantly tell my youngers bros specifically what they're doing wrong, to the point where i'm just trolling these days tbh.

Remember that goal ?romario?scored against utd in the world club championships? The 'flick it up and over the defender while facing away from goal'? I did that last night, amongst several nutmegs and one or two mazy dribbles. Didn't know meself tbh, played again tonight and i was shite.

yeah i don't mind now and again but this bloke was relentless, i mean he was literally providing a running criticism/advice service. awful dickhead.

most stuff came off for me tonight also, and the most encouraging thing is it's the first time i've exercised and not felt shin splints in months.

footy is ok for shinsplints, iirc

Shinsplints suuuuuuck tho

i was getting them other times, like my left shin in particular would get sore even walking to work and shit. back running moderately this week i reckon to test it out. beer gut getting out of hand.

walking destroys my legs, running less so, football not at all.

Edmundo, not Romario

ya well

My celebration, rather pathetically, was me and my strike partner doing the air guitar "excellent!" thing from Bill and Ted

<3, i think? perhaps not

We had 'a talker' in my old work fives team, who horrendously was also one of the best players, had no sensitivity to mood, and had the hugest need to win. Combined that adds up to a guy who will never take his turn in goal. We eventually had to knock it on the head by distributing a mock-up back page condemning the guy, only wires got crossed and two entirely different versions went round, which was massive overkill. He got quite hurt, which I guess is why he didn't change his ways, so then he just got ostracised instead.

we had pretty much that guy, but next-level aggressive. Our nerdy IT guy stuck the head on him and was given a hero's welcome once his six week suspension was served

Scored a tiny one from distance yesterday. Ball came to me on the edge of the box (well, would be if we played with a proper pitch) and I caught it first time with the side of my left to send it zipping along the ground and into the corner.

I am also the mouthy not very good one but I hope everyone realises it is in jest and takes in good humour.

i shout a lot when in goal but you're meant to right??? (or not when it's 5 a side?)

No I do in goal too, just to feel less of a spare prick as much as anything.

nick i played with you and believe me, you had nothing on this guy. i don't even mind a bit of talking, or a lot of talking. but this dude was non-stop talking and shouting every time anyone did anything with the ball, i mean, relentless arrogant shit. way worse than anything anyone is describing here.

way worse than anything anyone is describing here.

i may have gone a bit.... soft ..... on myself here

Argh, desperate for a kick about. All of my mates have either moved away or aren't really into footy.

I'm a shouter :/

Argh, desperate for a kick about

Feeling this. I even took Ismaelito over to the local basketball cage on Sunday morning, but all he wants to do is pick the ball up and toddle into the goal himself. Two yellows in quick succession = not a very satisfying victory.

trying to work out if ismaelito your partner, kid, or dog

the image of you yellow carding your dog is quite funny not gonna lie

ismaelinho imo

also I'm the best at football on ilf

*may be a lie

do we have a 'what level did you play to?/recount your football experience/glories' thread

i was top scorer in my first year (aged 12) league out of iirc 200-odd lads- wunderkind athlete that year tbh
moved to the sticks after that and didn't ever get into organised 'team' football
play five a side now- i'm fat and bad but i have my moments

Aie, that's the sort of stat good enough to make it into Michael Owen's brochure.

the whole thing could go into rooney's

have we got enough interest to restart some kind of ILX FAKA?

ya

you're always welcome at my Monday night football game, ken. same goes for anyone else as well but would def be good to make an allstar ilx fiveaside happen.

I live in glasgow, besides I'm too good

have it in glasgow then?

or liverpool ;)

Sounds like Isle of Man would probably be fairest. Maybe the Azores if Dan or boxall fancy joining in.