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[Football] Who recalls school football like this - Kes...
- Thread starter Psychobilly freakout
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HastingsSeagull
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Parker in my year had Gareth Barry and Dean Hammond. They didn't really need them to play to beat us very comfortably
rocker959
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Brilliant film .
maltaseagull
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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
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
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Brighton Hove and Sussex Grammar for me in the '60s.....teachers were Mike Smith and Mike Yaxley.......
seagullsoverlincoln
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- Jul 14, 2009
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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
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I know Reddish with dots on.
Mr Bridger
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Blues Rock DJ
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indeed he did and Yaxley ended up as Albion's physio........unfortunately, none of their talents rubbed off on me !!
el punal
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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!
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
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- Sep 21, 2017
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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
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.
Psychobilly freakout
HellBilly
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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
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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?
Thrifty non-licker
Used to hate metalwork. Made an out of shape gravestone design monogrammed key ring under Dudson's tutelage. Awful, simply awful.
