Old Footballs

[ratbert]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2008/nov/06/1

Great article, with some great comments. Always partial to the featherlite Frido balls myself.

[Athers]

Mitre tactic my favourite.

[jimbo]

Mitre tactic my favourite.

Always loved rolling up on a Sunday morning and one of those being the match ball. There was something in the way it pinged off the foot.

[Bruce Rioja]

A Mitre Mouldmaster to the inner-thigh. Now THAT was a football injury, Wenger.

[mofgimmers]

Without doubt, the Adidas Tango is the greatest ball ever. That is all.

[boltonboris]

A Mitre Mouldmaster to the inner-thigh. Now THAT was a football injury, Wenger.

Re-named the Mitre Dimplex - On a cold day had many a child in tears

[communistworkethic]

A Mitre Mouldmaster to the inner-thigh. Now THAT was a football injury, Wenger.

i winced just reading this

[Montreal Wanderer]

I'm afraid I grew up with the "old one" - leather with a blown up rubber balloon laced inside. Tolerable until it got wet then weighed a ton. Not even Beckham could have been able to bend that. Of course the football shoe was more like a steel-toed construction boot to compensate.

[Leyther_Matt]

Without doubt, the Adidas Tango is the greatest ball ever. That is all.

Top man. Tesco in Atherton used to sell a 'fly away' version in white, orange or fluorescent pink. Used to get some curl on those balls.

[TANGODANCER]

This is what we had in the fifties. Head one of these on a wet day and you needed traction to get your head out of your neck.

[William the White]

This is what we had in the fifties. Head one of these on a wet day and you needed traction to get your head out of your neck.

I was waiting for Tango to revive fond memories...

I wouldn't head one on a dry day in the sahara myself...

[InsaneApache]

Ahh the good old casey. I remember heading one when I was a kid and I caught the lacing bit. I ended up looking like Frankensteins monster.

[boltonboris]

Ahh the good old casey. I remember heading one when I was a kid and I caught the lacing bit. I ended up looking like Frankensteins monster.

I'm not old enough

[mofgimmers]

This is what we had in the fifties. Head one of these on a wet day and you needed traction to get your head out of your neck.

Do you remember playing with a pig's bladder as well Tango?

[TANGODANCER]

This is what we had in the fifties. Head one of these on a wet day and you needed traction to get your head out of your neck.

Do you remember playing with a pig's bladder as well Tango?

I remember playing with a tin can mate.

[BWFC_Wyles]

Without doubt, the Adidas Tango is the greatest ball ever. That is all.

Wonderful! Well said and I'm backing this post 100%!

[officer_dibble]

Mitre Tactics are the ones I remember

I also remember playing cubs? football and some eejit thinking a netball made by mitre was the matchball

Also furry yellow 5 a side balls are ace

[Lord Kangana]

Furry five-a-side balls are for cheats, they make everyone look like Pele. Hence why they are my favourite ball.

[jimbo]

Furry five-a-side balls are for cheats, they make everyone look like Pele. Hence why they are my favourite ball.

I stole a few match balls from Blackpool's training ground a couple of years ago. They are the best balls I've ever used - Mitre Pro 100s worth about £65 each . They really ping off the boot and move miles in the air.

[Puskas]

Furry five-a-side balls are for cheats, they make everyone look like Pele. Hence why they are my favourite ball.

Five-a-side football is full of soft bastards.

I used to play it. I have no talent at football, but was at least moderately adept at clattering people doing fancy stuff with the ball. Or, possibly, slamming them into the wall as they went past me.

They accused me of fouling them. I pointed out that it was a contact sport and they should stop whining. They pointed out that 5-a-side wasn't, in fact, a contact sport. Miserable sods.