Hobsons Choice

40/40 is interesting. You can see how the variations given so far could have come about by Chinese whispers, but that is really different. Where did you grow up?

Indeed, although I only came across that variant on a holiday in Cornwall, where the whole campsite would join in between massive games of cricket. Awesome times.

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haha, but not Southampton was how I should have finished that post.

Haha, yes, i'd forgotten that rule! Mad how complex we could make games when we were kids.

Did anyone else play in the street? We used a case ball (no flyaways allowed), and we became experts at chipping the ball very slightly to get it onto a kerb while dribbling.

Cool. We never had 60 seconds, but we did have headers and volleys. Being that these were the only ways a goal was counted. Or sometimes just headers and volleys in the box, normal shots elsewhere.

'Rushback keepers', or just 'rushbacks' for short for us. Same rules. Basically cos no-one wanted to be in goal.

Haha, pegging? err No. Game was like hide and seek. One person was on and counted to whatever, 60 seconds or something, while everyone would hide. Then the person who was on would come looking, and once they were far enough from the...lamp-post in our case, and you thought you could beat them, you would race them back to the pole. First one back would say 'leekie 1,2,3 and the person's name', and you would either be out, or you would survive to hide next round. If you were out you might be the person looking next time, depending on if you lost at ip-dip. I was very good at Leekie. I could do the 100m in 13 or 14 seconds as a kid.

I have never heard Murky used before.

That's it, yes! Wembley, Wembley doubles, or Wembley teams. Completely unlike any games ever played at Wembley.

On another side note, did everyone used to call it 'Wembley' when you'd only got one goalie and one goal, but two teams? That was the standard game in my street. Edit- Why on earth did we call it that?

Wait until you get onto the subject of the childhood game that I always knew as 'Leekie-1,2,3'. Every street had a different name for that, as I found out in my late 30's after an abstract conversation with my Wife. She used to call it 'Hackey-1,2,3 btw', which is totally wrong, obvs.

Because of Stuart Hall, probably.

But he's also had the empirical evidence from this actual war. It didn't start yesterday. Loads of EU countries have given Ukraine all sorts of weapons. It's the argument they made about the Covid response all over again, when we've had the second highest death in Europe, behind Russia who did f**k all.

Classic reaching for justification of his own beliefs. Such people when given power are dangerous, because they are incapable of objectiveness.

I'm not sure biased was the right word for Sat. It wasn't good. I have a lot of time for Ian Wright, but his son was a little bit out of his depth, and Ian didn't seem himself. I had to laugh when they were talking about the high line. 'Soon teams are gonna find this out'. We've just won 6 on the spin at home, and are in top 4 form. At least one analyst at the clubs we've been playing might just have brought it up in a pre match meeting.

Yeah, my bad. Club friendly. F***ing Google.

True, but Arse are supposed to be fighting for the league title here.

They got Brentford, Leeds and West Ham left. Given how reluctant teams are to help us by turning up and doing the jobs they get payed 100 grand a week for, that's a minimum of 6 points. So yeah. F***ing Harry Kane.

Ben White. Runner up of the ironic name Oscars 2021 and 2022.

So if this finishes like this we're hoping for a Spurs implosion? Given our luck they'll turn into prime Real Madrid and Ryan Mason will turn out to be the next Ferguson.

You're not wrong, actually. It's just proper frustrating.

FFS. Other teams have given us f***ing nothing in this european hunt. Nothing. F*** you Arsenal.

Definitely wouldn't. 1,000,000%