We All Had This Ball

[mdingwall]

 

[Echo_1]

The orange bit in the middle is about to pop out any moment now ....

 

[NHAMPTON_BEAR]

Haha - that takes me back. I never see a ball as worn as that now.

 

[Yer da]

Ripping patches off as they got worse until you had something barely resembling a ball left.

Then the pure joy of playing with a brand new ball.

Getting skelped in the face or thigh by one of those when it was cold and wet was a right bastard as well.

 

[Roadrunner]

I thought they looked like that from new.

 

[MurtyMania]

Always waterlogged to %^*&

 

[Expatbear]

In that condition when wet was like heading a medicine ball.

 

[Dave Angell]

Posh caants.

My ball was this plastic job, in orange.

Which was fine until it went over the wall, into a neighbours garden that had two terrier dugs who made light work of ripping it to bits.

 

[Papasmurf]

When dry it was far better to play with when it was in that condition. Wet....youd be as well kicking a brick

 

[Robbie Wilson]

I was fortunate I lived next to the Caley park growing up, always as my mates had a Mitre Multiplex.
Wait behind the stand when their at shooting practice Boom new ball!!

 

[Monty_greenock34]

Carrying it around using a half ripped off patch

 

[mdingwall]

When dry it was far better to play with when it was in that condition. Wet....youd be as well kicking a brick

Especially if wearing back slip-on sannies

 

[Papasmurf]

Especially if wearing back slip-on sannies

nostalgia in full flow.....feeling old!

 

[Bordersbear]

The alternative was a mouldmaster or one of those shitty orange balls from Woolworths that was like kicking a balloon.

 

[Installer]

Cold winters morning, skelped against your leg, red for two weeks.

 

[Bob Belcher]

Cold winters morning, skelped against your leg, red for two weeks.

The Mouldmaster was test of character. Players would be much harder today is academies were stocked with these rather than modern-day flyaways.

 

[Echo_1]

These balls where the worst. Around the time of the 1998 World Cup these started making an appearance on the playground. They were like a cross between a football and a basketball.

I still remember the sting after saving a shot. It hurt like a bitch.

 

[ScottXC]

Keepy uppy's for days.

 

[Ubik]

best football ever, was super light but solid... like a size 5 volleyball

 

[Markpro]

Cold winters morning, skelped against your leg, red for two weeks.

Saving a certain goal with the inside of your thigh on a January morning...and still having the red rash and dimples on your leg on the Monday back at school and it feeling like a third degree burn, but you saved a certain goal.

 

[Fitba Juice]

Cold winters morning, skelped against your leg, red for two weeks.

I am sure our janny used to store these in the freezer....

 

[Sasquatch]

Cold winters morning, skelped against your leg, red for two weeks.

I got a hand-me-down mouldy from my older brother in the 80s. When I was given it, it had been used that much, that it was perfectly smooth and just a few mm thick. Over time that smooth rubber had deteriorated and the surface layer went hard and lost its rubber grip/feel. It was slippy as hell.

So I had a mouldmaster that had a shiny marble like surface, was rock hard and more akin to a bowling ball. When skelped off your thigh, you didn't get the dimples, just one massive red circle with a bruise that lasted days. Sore as...

 

[BlueBlooded]

That brings back memories!

Of that ball, good ones in the main. Also triggers ones though of having to play in winter, on gravel pitches at Nethercraigs with a solid & dimpled instrument of torture during school PE periods.

 

[Texas ranger]

Cold winters morning, skelped against your leg, red for two weeks.

One of these broke my nose when I was sliding in on someone who blasted it at point blank range into my face.

 

[Texas ranger]

best football ever, was super light but solid... like a size 5 volleyball

I just bought one of these on eBay over here a few months ago. Autographed by Pele and Maradonna.

 

[the_baron]

Getting hit on the face with one and not just having the pain of being whacked, but also looking like you'd been attacked by a cat afterwards from being scratched by the loose patches.

The more fucked the ball was, the better it was for chipping the keeper it seemed.

 

[Rangersda]

Brilliant ball that. My first leather ball was the old “T” panelled ball with the leather lace that cut your forehead when headering!

 

[Britannia89]

Getting hit on the face with one and not just having the pain of being whacked, but also looking like you'd been attacked by a cat afterwards from being scratched by the loose patches.

The more fucked the ball was, the better it was for chipping the keeper it seemed.

Just about to post the same. Absolutely brutal when these patchy balls spun off your coupon.

 

[Chris01]

I remember the Sondico floater balls.

Used to toe bash it from about 40 yards and watch it swerve like Bobby Carlos.

 

[Sasquatch]

Just about to post the same. Absolutely brutal when these patchy balls spun off your coupon.

As if you've just been dragged through a Rosebush.

 

[johnto]

Ripping patches off as they got worse until you had something barely resembling a ball left.

Then the pure joy of playing with a brand new ball.

Getting skelped in the face or thigh by one of those when it was cold and wet was a right bastard as well.

Haha and when u got the new one “no playn oan concrete fs”. Just the grass pitches for like 3 hours then u thought %^*& it..... bit like when u got new trainers

 

[Muay Bouk]

Ripping patches off as they got worse until you had something barely resembling a ball left.

Then the pure joy of playing with a brand new ball.

Getting skelped in the face or thigh by one of those when it was cold and wet was a right bastard as well.

Nothing compares to the pain of a mitre mouldmaster clipping your ear on a winters morning, I’ve broke out in a sweat thinking about it.

 

[Datman]

My mate at 42 swears he’s still got dimple prints and the word Mitre scarred on his left thigh. Sustained from blocking a close range toe blaster on a cold sun morning playing for the school

 

[sprally]

Cold winters morning, skelped against your leg, red for two weeks.

Ow
Ow
Ow
Ow ffs that’s agony.

That’s what I remember.

 

[ibroxbound]

Brilliant ball that. My first leather ball was the old “T” panelled ball with the leather lace that cut your forehead when headering!

With football boots that had nails piercing the soles.

 

[I believe in Eli]

best football ever, was super light but solid... like a size 5 volleyball

Now there’s a ball, a thing of absolute beauty.

 

[minder]

Remember in the late 70s a ball came on the market called a skirrid.If that hit you it hurt like a bastard

 

[BobbyShearer55-65]

Mitre MM was the daddy.

 

[El Jock Grande Sabia]

Cold winters morning, skelped against your leg, red for two weeks.

Aaaahhhhhhh! The stuff of nightmares! It was tantamount to child abuse making you play with 1 of these. Especially in winter! Kids these days have no idea how lucky they are!

 

[Davieblue1977]

Yes had one of them, then Id play with orange bit till it burst

 

[The Blue Iceberg]

best football ever, was super light but solid... like a size 5 volleyball

I had an orange one of these about 1985, it was truly a work of art, best ball I ever had, do I earn extra staunch points?

Probably not as it ended up worse than the one in the op!

 

[Suttonger]

The mouldmaster we used for the school team didn't have the fancy design of the orange one above just this white one in the picture.
Hated those footballs,playing on a rockhard red ash pitch on a saturday morning in the winter when you get scudded with one of those was not a great school memory

 

[Gallant_Few]

Everybody must remember the old size 4 Mitre Cosmic. Used to love playinggames with that when I was about 12 it was just the perfect weight for long range free kicks.

 

[RutherglenGer72]

Cold winters morning, skelped against your leg, red for two weeks.

The bastard of all footballs.Seen this ball cause more injuries than any tackle.

 

[PMB1872]

Posh caants.

My ball was this plastic job, in orange.

Which was fine until it went over the wall, into a neighbours garden that had two terrier dugs who made light work of ripping it to bits.

They hurt like %^*& if they were skelped off you!

 

[gersmad]

First ball i played with, it's a reproduction but by f*ck heading that lace hurt like hell.

 

[archimedes]

And Scotland hasn't qualified for a World Cup for over 20 years.

I'm starting a campaign...


BRING BACK THE MOULDMASTER!!!

 

[Andyjock17]

Cold winters morning, skelped against your leg, red for two weeks.

Work of the devil whoever created that thing, a blow from that was character building

 

[Bob Belcher]

One of these broke my nose when I was sliding in on someone who blasted it at point blank range into my face.

I still remember taking one square in the coupon while defending a free-kick.

 

[budman]

Posh caants.

My ball was this plastic job, in orange.

Which was fine until it went over the wall, into a neighbours garden that had two terrier dugs who made light work of ripping it to bits.

Early 70s got the orange or white one as part of xmas such as it was then. Xmas day thornwood school pitches kick about with pals, a few of us would get one. Memories not seen a one since then. Cheers made my day.