safe pair of hands
― imago, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
fair target
― old yeller-at-clouds (darraghmac), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
last minute proper scissor-legged, head flicked, front edge of box into far side netting header from a corner in a real eleven a side to equalise on 90 mins
cant buy a pint tonight lads
― puppy bash (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 December 2018 22:18 (five years ago) link
im gone a yard slow and very one footed, but every few weeks that foot is romarios. had the pleasure of a beaten opponent shouting "i cant stop the fat cunt" into the turf at a late stage tonight as another one went across the keeper and in off the far post.
― fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 March 2019 21:37 (five years ago) link
your best self
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Thursday, 21 March 2019 21:42 (five years ago) link
note that i play three times a weke and the thread is only bumped every few months like
― fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 March 2019 21:44 (five years ago) link
btw I can't help but noticing your DN is a riff on the imo standout track off the Luke Kelly album you showed me, one of the better songs I've heard lately, ty again for that
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Thursday, 21 March 2019 21:44 (five years ago) link
yes it is and yes it is
― fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 March 2019 21:48 (five years ago) link
proud day, im now getting targeted
https://i.imgur.com/5IDtdAg.jpg
― fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 22:45 (five years ago) link
conversion rate of 6/7 tonight, one top corner first time across meself, one stud-rolled megs, one off the near post after giving him eyes the far
rolled back the years, im a disgrace most games these days
― provisional ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 16 September 2019 22:24 (four years ago) link
Congratulations
― El Tomboto, Monday, 16 September 2019 22:42 (four years ago) link
thanks tb are u kickin a ball at all yrself these days a mhic
― provisional ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 16 September 2019 22:52 (four years ago) link
I live my athletic dreams vicariously through my coworkers who show to the office up with crutches and casts on occasion
― El Tomboto, Monday, 16 September 2019 23:18 (four years ago) link
sports after forty are a game for suckers braver folks than I
― El Tomboto, Monday, 16 September 2019 23:19 (four years ago) link
xp yep ive done that too
non xp well fuck ya ive a year or two yet!
― provisional ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 16 September 2019 23:23 (four years ago) link
this isn't quite scoring a goal but note how confidently the shot at 2:04 is plucked from the air. camera alas cuts away before recording the ball returned inch-perfectly to the keeper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGZhpN94oBY
― imago, Saturday, 14 December 2019 17:29 (four years ago) link
have been playing in boots purchased dec 2018 all year (obv)
bit too long, which i hate, takes that vital immediacy of contact out of my toe-striking style (will defend this much-maligned technique to the death btw) and if im honest ive not enjoyed many of my games all year as a result, also ive been shit
researched a wider/shorter style and picked up a new pair of boots today en route to a local xmas derby match thats a bit of a tradition down the island, and from the moment i put them on i knew i was back.
scored a few crackers, top corner arced swervers, outside of boot faders, touch and all way better.
― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Sunday, 29 December 2019 00:05 (four years ago) link
lads
theyre the same boot
same size, same model, i measured the fuckin things toe to tip.
truly the game is played in our heads
― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Sunday, 29 December 2019 00:07 (four years ago) link
so yesterday
we're 5-2 up, but one of our better players has done his back so we're 9 v 10. I'm having an unusually indifferent game in goal. itching for a go outfield but having to be restrained. pull off my best save in years and then don't come for the ensuing corner which gets bundled in from a yard. get chipped twice. I'm restless. suddenly its 5-5, a man down, and I've had enough. off come the gloves with a panto flourish. our captain and left-back is practically press-ganged into goal and I announce I will play down the left side which is poor code for up front. our midfielder who tbuf has done little all game whines that we're giving up the game (I was keeping like a fool, couldn't he see?) but he probably has a point
anyway, so my first two shots are duff but my third one, after a flowing team move down the right which I started, sails into the roof of the net, past the guy who's chipped me twice and whose turn it was to be in goal. and your hero is not done there - two minutes later I pull off a backheel assist for our striker to lash home the 7th and his 6th. oh yeah, he'd scored all 5 when I came outfield. didn't have a strike partner until then. I make some sort of aggressively wry rejoinder to the given up the game guy but I hardly have to really, the point has been made. it finishes 8-5
― opden gnash (imago), Monday, 20 January 2020 09:55 (four years ago) link
well that's that. you did hand in your notice and hung up yr boots straight after, right?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 20 January 2020 10:02 (four years ago) link
not hanging up anything. a glorious goalscoring career against a bunch of ageing music nerds awaits
fwiw I would now dispute the oft-repeated claim that 4-2 is the most embarrassing winning score
― opden gnash (imago), Monday, 20 January 2020 10:06 (four years ago) link
Wait you're not with the ageing music nerds? 'Backheel Assist' a Cardiacs deep cut, surely.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 20 January 2020 10:38 (four years ago) link
ageing music nerd on ageing music nerd action. every few months in regents park. always looking for new players. ability optional, attitude optional
― opden gnash (imago), Monday, 20 January 2020 10:42 (four years ago) link
timely revive
11 a side tonight for our lot, in five degree conditions
― Catherine, Boner of JP Sweeney & Co (darraghmac), Monday, 20 January 2020 11:12 (four years ago) link
new boots clean?
― opden gnash (imago), Monday, 20 January 2020 11:15 (four years ago) link
had a horror show last thurs, confidence is low
― Catherine, Boner of JP Sweeney & Co (darraghmac), Monday, 20 January 2020 11:18 (four years ago) link
back to the old identical pair it is then
― opden gnash (imago), Monday, 20 January 2020 11:19 (four years ago) link
i was shite all year in them, weve moved on and im not revisiting
― Catherine, Boner of JP Sweeney & Co (darraghmac), Monday, 20 January 2020 12:34 (four years ago) link
lads it wasnt great it wasnt awful it got us out into a beautiful evening im giving it a C+
― Catherine, Boner of JP Sweeney & Co (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 09:09 (four years ago) link
Won a frame 53-46 on a re-spotted black tonight ahhh yeah that’s the stuff
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 13 March 2020 22:45 (four years ago) link
entirely approve of this flex
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Friday, 13 March 2020 22:50 (four years ago) link
actually, as i have alluded elsewhere, we don't have any sports in our isolation chamber/flat except a carrom board so expect some I POCKETED THREE COINS IN A ROW action soon enough
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Friday, 13 March 2020 22:51 (four years ago) link
Ha, yeah. Check mate in nine moves ffs!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 14 March 2020 11:57 (four years ago) link