Sorry if fixtures but it should bring back some memories - especially the *shudder* Mouldmaster 
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Classic Footballs
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Seagullible
Super Keeper
Rember the Mouldmaster at school. Cold day blasting it as hard as possible at the poor keeper....who was me
The Spanish
Well-known member
The Stuart Sturridge league cup ball. The forgotten classic.
Horsham Gull
H Block Offender
The Grockle
Formally Croydon Seagull
Didn't a player claim that heading the old style football gave him brain damage? I cant remember his name
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They used to hurt!
I had an orange mouldmaster (presumably for use in snow), which is still in the Summerhouse in my parents garden.
Mr Banana
Tedious chump
I remember finding a Mitre Delta in a bush in the park I played football in when I was a kid and thinking "yes, this is certain to be the best moment of my childhood". It was as well
Didn't a player claim that heading the old style football gave him brain damage? I cant remember his name
Nor can he, now.
drew
Drew
One of the best playground balls was the orange plastic 'Wembley' ball. In some case, it was even possible to repair punctures with a hot knife.
The Wembley Trophy Football
A classic. I too can remember my Dad repairing these with his soldering iron.
Marvellous scenes
maffew
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my chrimbo present in 88 I think, great ball, f***ing car ran over it though 
house your seagull
Train à Grande Vitesse
great thread;
i had a tango once, my dad used to drive trains past millwalls training ground and there was one hanging around, in true traindriver gross-misconduct flair style, he stopped the train (commuters? ... meh?), jumped out of the cab and picked it up - playing chicken indeed - alas the thing had been sitting in a puddle for a while and part of it's skin was whithered and wrinkled, i'm not sure we ever played with it but i do remember a trip to wisden sports to buy an adapter (the king of all small football accesories, gold-dust-esque) to blow it up.
those rubber balls, we had them through school, one attempt by myself to hoof the bugger 30 yard directly into the ball bag at PE went spectacularly wrong. the big orange bastard pinging of my laces like a peach but with enough swerve to be labelled 'banana' it promptly flew off course and hit my teacher sqaure in the face, she collapsed to the ground, claret everywhere like she'd been shot. hitting teachers in the face with a ball are cherished school moments, i recall co-editor smacking a ball in the face of a playground-duty design teacher at blatch, shattering his smoked-glass mug of coffee in the process.
lastly, upon a trip to berlin in '06, i stumbled accross a sport shop selling mini replicas of all the adidias world cup balls from 1974 to present, alas they'd sold out of all but the telstar (my personal fave) which i snapped up for a measley 4 euros. they are about the size of a handball.
happy days indeed.
i had a tango once, my dad used to drive trains past millwalls training ground and there was one hanging around, in true traindriver gross-misconduct flair style, he stopped the train (commuters? ... meh?), jumped out of the cab and picked it up - playing chicken indeed - alas the thing had been sitting in a puddle for a while and part of it's skin was whithered and wrinkled, i'm not sure we ever played with it but i do remember a trip to wisden sports to buy an adapter (the king of all small football accesories, gold-dust-esque) to blow it up.
those rubber balls, we had them through school, one attempt by myself to hoof the bugger 30 yard directly into the ball bag at PE went spectacularly wrong. the big orange bastard pinging of my laces like a peach but with enough swerve to be labelled 'banana' it promptly flew off course and hit my teacher sqaure in the face, she collapsed to the ground, claret everywhere like she'd been shot. hitting teachers in the face with a ball are cherished school moments, i recall co-editor smacking a ball in the face of a playground-duty design teacher at blatch, shattering his smoked-glass mug of coffee in the process.
lastly, upon a trip to berlin in '06, i stumbled accross a sport shop selling mini replicas of all the adidias world cup balls from 1974 to present, alas they'd sold out of all but the telstar (my personal fave) which i snapped up for a measley 4 euros. they are about the size of a handball.
happy days indeed.
There you go....pain
Storer68
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anyone remember these
absolutely useless as they blended beautifully with the colour of grass when being used under lights. Never understood why the army dodn't use them as camoflageThimble Keegan
Remy LeBeau
Didn't a player claim that heading the old style football gave him brain damage? I cant remember his name
Jeff Astle.
Albion & England forever.
Thimble Keegan
Littlehampton BHA
Nottseagull
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Didn't a player claim that heading the old style football gave him brain damage? I cant remember his name
Paul Gascoigne ?
That is the absolute DON of all footballs.
The AZTECA version ran it CLOSE though...
The AZTECA version ran it CLOSE though...