Well Arshavin hit the post twice in two seconds on Saturday in what sounds like similar circumstances, so I'm inclined to give Ken the benefit of the doubt here
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 27 September 2010 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Do we need an "I MISSED A GOAL FFS" thread?
About five years ago I showed up in Regents Park for an ILX football thang. There were about 7 or 8 of us and we ended up on a full-size pitch with proper goals taking on 7 or 8 other random people (until the real Sunday leaguers turned up and turfed us off). I'd kind of nominated myself as striker and I clearly remember being in the centre circle, maybe for kick-off or more likely to re-start after we'd conceded. I took one look at the goal: it didn't look that far away. The keeper didn't look all that. I fancied my chances. "Just pass it to me, I'm going have a go" I said to the guy next to me. He nudged it across and I thumped it towards the top left corner. The ball bounced five or six times before slowly rolling off the pitch about five yards wide of the goal.
― Running the Gantelope (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 27 September 2010 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
crushing!
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Monday, 27 September 2010 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
straight out of car after four hours driving to five a side today, so i was rubbish. scored a few, the highlight being a neat touch on the run from a thirty yard crossfield pass that was swept imperiously into the far corner. but aside form that it was comedy stuff from dmac i'm afraid
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Monday, 27 September 2010 22:04 (thirteen years ago) link
i remember this game!
― HOOS' THE BOSS (ken c), Monday, 27 September 2010 22:08 (thirteen years ago) link
friend's stag do in the middle of ireland about a month ago, playing 5-a-side on the saturday with a pretty bad hangover.
first game of four (we had a mini tournament) i get the ball early, round the groom, and (1 in 100 chance this) blast in from close to the halfway line, celebrate wildly.
in the same session of games we were about to win and with 20 seconds left (complete with countdown) we're playing keep ball, i attempt what appears to be a simple turn as a friend flails towards me, he reads it, nicks the ball, and scores, drawing the match and meaning we lose.
couldn't apologise enough.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link
there's nothing worse, especially if you're playing with people that take their 5 a side VERY SERIOUSLY
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
the guys weren't too bad, and i did make a point blank double save in same game, but yeah i fucking hate ultra serious 5-a-side. i'm competitive but not to the extent of utter dickishness and a bad atmos that you get in some 5-a-side games. you want competitive but jokes and pisstaking imo.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 16:26 (thirteen years ago) link
ILX 5-a-side has gotta happen
― acoleuthic, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
seriously. make it so.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link
there was a five week period of work games last year that had three or four fistfights, and it was awesome in many ways but in terms of enjoying the football not so much. a lot of out better players fucked off out of it and set up another game, i hope they're enjoying screaming at each other and the occasional headbutt whereever they are now RIP big men
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 16:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Ronan I do believe we are all meeting this Sunday for pool? It shall be discussed there.
― acoleuthic, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 16:40 (thirteen years ago) link
jeez it's CHILLY HERE OUTSIDE THE ILXLONDON ZONE
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 16:42 (thirteen years ago) link
move here or gtfo
― acoleuthic, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 16:43 (thirteen years ago) link
contradictory
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 16:44 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean to destroy you
― acoleuthic, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 16:45 (thirteen years ago) link
i am a doubt for sunday as friend has suggested a pub trip to watch the ryder cup...which is tempting.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
xp that's his whispered trashtalk during 5 a side
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 16:48 (thirteen years ago) link
o ok
well...I'm sure something can be worked out even as dmac rubs his hands at the fall of our empire
― acoleuthic, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 16:48 (thirteen years ago) link
only rubbing my hands cos it's chilly out here, you just dont listen
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
haha...i will try and do both, and obviously post this on the pool thread.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link
metaphorically chilly
never come in from the cold, agent dunphy
― acoleuthic, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link
i played 5-a-side regularly with ilxors darren and daniel japanese giraffe.
― HOOS' THE BOSS (ken c), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 16:59 (thirteen years ago) link
tonight: standing straight in front of goal, lovely ball played squarely to my feet and i lean to my left and completely miskick it 'footballs biggest bloopers' style. sheepishly run back to defend and stay there for the duration of the game. we ended up losing by 3 goals.
― Michael B, Monday, 4 October 2010 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
I MISSED A GOAL FFS
― HOOS' THE BOSS (ken c), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 16:11 (thirteen years ago) link
scored 13/14 goals in one hour of 5s about a month back, everything I touched seemed to hit the net. it was kinda incredible.
― ~/hatcat.JPG (luis guzman baking a pie), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
love those days, though they're few and far between
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddCzAxY6Iv8
― HOOS' THE BOSS (ken c), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 11:06 (thirteen years ago) link
A pretty compact execution with my right foot over the keeper's shoulder. Happy that my run was able to do justice to the through-ball and a better finish than it probably needed to be against a pretty awful keeper.
I'm left-footed btw.
― Upt0eleven, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link
got to keep it a tight, sure motion on yr bad foot imo.
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 23:07 (thirteen years ago) link
All of which smugness should not overshadow the fact that it came amidst a fine team performance, a 7-3 victory including a hat-trick for an aging scotsman and a result that hopefully maybe means my team is no longer bottom of the league.
― Upt0eleven, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 23:09 (thirteen years ago) link
hate competitive games tbh. it's 'not me'.
took a long ball over my shoulder on the left this week, said deft touch switching it non-bouncing to my right for a le tiss faux-cunt into the goalie's near side.
well, ok, the first touch came off my foot but i recovered so's you'd never know and meant the rest.
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 23:11 (thirteen years ago) link
"competitive" I can enjoy, tonight being a fine example, but if i'm not having fun - generally when members of my team or theirs are taking it far too seriously - then I struggle to see the point of being there at all.
your goal sounds glorious btw.
― a le tiss faux-cunt (Upt0eleven), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah it was half zamora that time, half le tiss that time, more that norn irish dude that'll never do it again and everyone's wondering 'now, i know he meant that but did he mean that' tbh.
ah yeah, that's the competitive you can always do without- a close game with a good vibe is the perfect setting, two mins to go and it's 19-18 kind of thing
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 23:20 (thirteen years ago) link
to be fair to our opponents this evening, they had to play the whole match with no subs where had three in the second half (and rolled them on and off at will) so i'm fairly sure were exhausted by the end. we also went ahead in the first minute when their 'keeper made a shocking rob green-esque fumble on the line.
in the end we probably should have scored a few more.
― a le tiss faux-cunt (Upt0eleven), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 23:49 (thirteen years ago) link
you have to take those nights tho, cos sure as anything one of the times you'll be facing some shorter version of dolph lungdren that destroys you with ease. lyfe is balance imo
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 23:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, experienced one of those the last time I played when another agency spanked us 10-1. I don't think we're under illusions that tonight was any more than a West Ham versus Wigan affair, and I enjoyed every minute.
― a le tiss faux-cunt (Upt0eleven), Thursday, 18 November 2010 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link
last night: ball played at my feet, im 10 foot from goal try power it past the keeper at the near post. rebounds off the post and onto my head. YEAHHH GET IN
― decent skinsmanship (Michael B), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Scored a couple since then. Last week's was a fine team effort, a product of a series of short first time passes to neutralise their defence followed by a single motion shot to beat the keeper at his near post.
Assisted an almost identical one for a teammate a few minutes later. We still got stuffed 10-4.
― DISPLAY NAMING RIGHTS (Upt0eleven), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 11:15 (thirteen years ago) link
scoring too many to count in these glory days of five games a week good weather, but last night i hit an absolute pearler full on the run across the keeper rising in a straight line into the far top corner, a once-a-year or better strike tbh.
From the right touchline, prob 25 yards or so? I dunno what yr avg 7 a side pitch length is
Off to another game now. As i said, glory days
― the salmon of procrastination (darraghmac), Saturday, 16 April 2011 14:01 (thirteen years ago) link
he will have hoped hubris will not have cursed this rich vein of form
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 16 April 2011 14:06 (thirteen years ago) link
it will have been noted that five a sude goals ought not to have been in short supply tbf
― the salmon of procrastination (darraghmac), Saturday, 16 April 2011 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
ilx poster garda will have wished he lived in ireland sometimes just so he could play 5 a side with his friends.
― Will.Have.Known (Local Garda), Sunday, 17 April 2011 09:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Any interest in playing a jumpers for goalposts game in Regents Park tomorrow evening?
― DISPLAY NAMING RIGHTS (Upt0eleven), Sunday, 17 April 2011 13:30 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah is that on or are you suggesting ilxorz sort it? i'd be up for that for sure. what time?
― Will.Have.Known (Local Garda), Sunday, 17 April 2011 19:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Nah, it's a disorganized, organized thing. From half six near the hub. Will webmail yoy
― DISPLAY NAMING RIGHTS (Upt0eleven), Sunday, 17 April 2011 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah my proper email is my full name all one word at gmail.com, assuming you know my first and second name!
suits me well, i'm unemployed so any positive activities are good.
― Will.Have.Known (Local Garda), Sunday, 17 April 2011 20:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Done. Any other ilxors also more than welcome
― DISPLAY NAMING RIGHTS (Upt0eleven), Sunday, 17 April 2011 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
shit's catching up
Sixth hour of weekend football and everything packed in
I tweaked a hamstring ffs
― i've got blingees on my fisters (darraghmac), Monday, 18 April 2011 10:38 (thirteen years ago) link
hubris
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 18 April 2011 10:41 (thirteen 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