Hard shots
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Renoranger
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Decent - try a mouldmaster on the thigh from a corner, freezing cold around 1969.
JimmyBuffetloyal
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Remember that experience well, you could have the pimples from the ball on your leg for days.
One boy in our BB side caught one from point blank in the face one Saturday morning, broke his nose, blood everywhere and two black eyes by the Monday
Mackania
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Especially if you got some haddy with no idea how to play football just giving it an almighty TB every time it comes near them. The ball being sent flying through the air at a dangerous pace with no due care or attention.
Renoranger
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I tried to score from the corner kick and realized that I could only use my bare thigh. Ball went straight to their goalie and as I lay there in pain, everyone played on and ignored me. All weather pitch too
Diehard
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I was just thinking about this when scrolling down.
The baw bounced back to the halfway line. Belter
If you have any Mark, put lots of arnica on that. It really helps to reduce bruising.
huistrasleftpeg
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Mid to late eighties, indoor football. The rubber dimpled Classico. Right on the inside of the thigh.
Stuff of nightmares.
Stuff of nightmares.
Arkanoid
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If that was the Branco* freekick I'm sure I heard they scrambled to set the wall quickly and Ally was meant to be in that position!I was just thinking about this when scrolling down.
The baw bounced back to the halfway line. Belter
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reallyruff
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In whatever direction they happened to be facing, as likely to be out for a corner as a bye kick or shy, an own goal as an effort on goal.
Scaramanga
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I honestly thought Albertz had retired.
I’m sure Goodson has a tattoo like that.
HandsomeHead
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Or the double whammy of the Mouldmaster to the thigh followed by lacerations to the knee after falling on the frozen gravel pitch.
And all the while it’s minus whatever with wind chill factor on a Saturday morning in January and your coach thinks vests and gloves are for poofs.
Ubik
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wasnt any different in the 80's, red ash pitch covered in glass with a mouldmaster. Even worse was our red ash pitch was next to around 10 grass pitches at the KGV's which we werent allowed on
Southpaws
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Add moisture and thousands of grains of red blaze to said mould master as it smacks you square between the eyes. I looked like a raccoon with measles for the ensuing week...Happy days! ;-)
be11y
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Pfft, if have taken one on my thigh anyday, after I took one square on the ear that almost took my head off!
I still shudder thinking about it
Don Vito
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My sympathies sir, caught one in the torso years ago that left an imprint for a while.
Played 5s with an enthusiastic, if somewhat limited pal whose first attempt on goal was a blaster that took the goalie right in the face and burst his nose, quickly onto the rebound, he blasted the second shot which hit the hand the goalie used to protect his face, breaking his finger, third shot hits the goalie in the body, third rebound scuds off the bar thankfully and up over the fence.
Stunned looks all round as our hero eventually realises the carnage he’s caused and sheepishly goes to ask his victim if he’s ok.
Played 5s with an enthusiastic, if somewhat limited pal whose first attempt on goal was a blaster that took the goalie right in the face and burst his nose, quickly onto the rebound, he blasted the second shot which hit the hand the goalie used to protect his face, breaking his finger, third shot hits the goalie in the body, third rebound scuds off the bar thankfully and up over the fence.
Stunned looks all round as our hero eventually realises the carnage he’s caused and sheepishly goes to ask his victim if he’s ok.
Papa_Sasac
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Mouldmaster prob sprung to the minds of 90% of the forum.
Death trap of a ball.
Death trap of a ball.
Krissie
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Remember it well. That would've cleared any potential blood clots he might've had hanging about.I was just thinking about this when scrolling down.
The baw bounced back to the halfway line. Belter
Chryston Bear
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Yip,if you headed one of those bad boys the wrong way,it felt like a big chunk of your hair came off with it !!
stein and johnston
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Or try and header it
Diehard
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I thought it was Dunga, but just googled it and it was Branco.If that was the Branch freekick I'm sure I heard they scrambled to set the wall quickly and Ally was meant to be in that position!
MacLeod said: "I'm told Ally McCoist asked to swap places in the defensive wall when Branco was lining up to take it.
"He'd apparently seen wee Mo Johnston knocked down by a Branco free-kick that struck him on the thigh earlier in the game and so gave his position in the wall more thought than I obviously did.
"When the team came back into the dressing room after having gone down to a 1-0 defeat I remember Ally saying to me 'Wee man, it could have been worse. It could've been me'."
