Subject: Goalie Gloves

I'm under 30, and I used to use goalie gloves with the table tennis style surface to them.

Well done.

*takes a bow*

If you played cricket with them on, could every one spin the ball as much as chubby Warne?

They weren't really very grippy though were they?

I had some of these gloves too being under 30 *does a kurtsee*

I would have kept my last pair, if it wasn't for the fact they smelt like a dead badgers arse.

I was never fat enough to be a goalie...

You don't have to be a porker. Other reasons for being in goal:
a) having some kind of injury (which normally means you shouldn't be playing football full stop, but being in goal seems not to count - that's the theory anyway)
b) being a lazy bastard - particularly so if you make anyone who scores (with no nets) or bangs the ball wide go and fetch the ball too
c) being hated by all who know you and thus forced between the sticks

I'm not a porker either...just i was rubbish and probably mostly fit category c)

Gone are the days of heads and volleys...last cock up goes in goal...using illuminous orange footballs at 11 at night in the summer...etc etc etc

Thanks for the effort, but those are too high tech.

These were literally a pair of pull on gloves made of cotton or something with rubber stuck on. So bad, but that was all we had. No padding, no velcro wrist bands, nothing. They ruled.

But they stung your hands...you don't want them for playing football do you? You can't.

Have a look on garden centre websites for gardening gloves - some of them are pretty much the same as the old goalie gloves!

Not real footy. Just five a side.

horse riding supplies - they sell the sam sort of gloves. less garish colours, but the same thing. the bubbles are to grip the reins.