Should football be played on a variety of surfaces like tennis?

horsechoker

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Why does it always have to be grass? Let's introduce some variety

I think we'd see much more interesting tactics and games instead of just the same teams dominating everything.
 
Concrete, like we used to play at school.

How the feck was that even allowed? :lol:
 
horsechoker said:
Why does it always have to be grass? Let's introduce some variety

I think we'd see much more interesting tactics and games instead of just the same teams dominating everything.
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Maybe they could vary the ball type as well, one week tennis, then a floaty football, then a cannon ball and so on…
 
Slevs said:
Concrete, like we used to play at school.

How the feck was that even allowed? :lol:
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Nothing wrong with it.

On concrete with a tennis ball is what we played. One from our lunch kickabout now plays in the Prem :devil:
 
hellhunter said:
Diving and sliding tackles would end immediately
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Not sure on the diving part but I was known for them sliding tackles on concrete :D

That sound of an opponent's knees cracking as they fall to the ground from your tackle, ouf! :drool:
 
MUFC OK said:
Nothing wrong with it.
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Kids are too soft these days, they play football on mattresses with puppies and kittens.

Back in my day we played on a pitch made of broken glass and nails while teachers chased us with cattle prods.
 
horsechoker said:
Kids are too soft these days, they play football on mattresses with puppies and kittens.

Back in my day we played on a pitch made of broken glass and nails while teachers chased us with cattle prods.
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The old shale pitches, aye. My dad recalled doing so in wythenshawe and picking bits out of your knees at the end of it.
 
Big Andy said:
Tennis ball? Posh cnut.

Rolled up pair of gloves for us.
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Gloves?! Christ you were spoilt

Rolled up Aluminum foil from the rich kid's sandwich his momma had packed for breakfast.
 
My best ever moment was with a tennis ball on concrete.

Smashed a volley with the tennis ball, and the keeper (some specky kid whose name escapes me) put his hands up to save it. It flew through the tennis ball sized gap in his fingers and pinged him right on the glasses which promptly exploded into about a million pieces.

Almost on a par with when i threw a piping hot chip at Mike Jones and it landed inbetween his eye and his glasses and burnt his eyelid quite badly and he had to wear an eye patch to school :lol: got away with that as well as it was from quite a distance so nobody knew where it had come from.
 
I was in Spain a few months back and there was a park where kids were playing football on a mixture of gravel/clay/sand pitch. Too hot for grass to grow, a local pointed out to me that this is why the Spanish are better technically and don't slide tackle......it's simply not an option.
 
When I was young we used to play on snow and ice at school, with big winter boots. Would not recommend.
 
It should be played on a stone bridge under full moon, and the ground under the bridge should be filled with spikes, so that when you're uppercutted on the bridge you fall down and get impaled.

The viewerships would skyrocket (or should I say - "have a spike"?).

And the new CL anthem would be Mortal Kombat Theme Song. Now that would be something!
 
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Elcabron said:
I was in Spain a few months back and there was a park where kids were playing football on a mixture of gravel/clay/sand pitch. Too hot for grass to grow, a local pointed out to me that this is why the Spanish are better technically and don't slide tackle......it's simply not an option.
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We had something like this in Norway when I was a kid 20-30 years ago. Maybe cause the cold made it harder to keep grass pitches always active throughout the year. We some times had matches on these, although it was more frequently used for training sessions.
At school it was even more rough gravel. Kids would still slide-tackle at times, but playing in jeans for 10-15mins between classes.

These days astroturf fields are much more common though.
 
Tarmac with a million pieces of broken bottles scattered all over it. That's what we played on when we were kids sometimes with a sliotar when we couldn't find or get a ball.
 
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