Could you have made it?

[Hand Shandy]

Every time I see Tony Hibbert on a football pitch, I'm more convinced I could have made it.

[Joey8FrogsLegs]

Had some good passes in me and a half decent shot. But slow as fuck, mistimed most tackles, couldn't head a ball and didn't have the commitment.

 

Kind of a skint mans Charlie Adam.

 

Edit: Forgot to add, I was also quite good at shirt pulling. Comes naturally with the total lack of pace I think.

[Rafiagra]

I'd like to think I'd have made it if I'd grown a bit earlier.

 

Problem with kids footy is that unless you have some god given talent, it's the bigger lads who are able to dominate play, who will sand out when the scouts are watching and so get picked up.

[G Richards]

I played for Wirral Schools back in the day in addition to Sunday League and the school team. I was a central midfielder. I could pass and shoot off either foot. I wasn't lightning but wasn't slow either. I was in the same year as Jason McAteer at school. Around that time (in my estimation) there wasn't a lot of difference in our level, but obviously he went on to bigger and better things.

[Trumo]

I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender.

 

No I couldn't have made it though. I've never had the drive to play at a competitive level, and when I was a lot younger, I wasn't that tall and was very skinny so I would have been overlooked anyway.

 

I had the ability to read a game, a decent left foot so I could shoot from distance, and I could make runs into the box to get on the end of chances. If I played now I'd certainly lack the mobility and stamina, but could still read the game and shoot from distance. I did once score from around halfway on a full-size pitch. World class it was.

[s(k)aturation]

I was left mid.

A very good incisive passer, probably because I was a little self-conscious on the ball and wanted to get rid of it.

Dad reckons I had the talent to play for Australia.

Mind you, he is my Dad. He probably thought I could be PM too.

[kelster]

I could have been a top international rugby player. I just lacked determination, skill, strength, stamina, aggression and speed. Apart from that I was good to go.

[fowler9]

no chance, I'm the sort who can do whatever I want in training then in a match lose all confidence

[Ezekiel 25:17]

I had offers from several premiership clubs but i'd be fucked if I was letting that get in the way of my promising Adminsitration career I'd always harboured ambitions of.

[Guest The Big Green Bastard]

Was a goalie and a left-footed utility player (anywhere up the middle and anywhere on the left) used to take all set pieces bar penalties. Was playing at a level roughly 8 divisions off the PL for £15 a game. Knee injury put paid to all that in the end.

[Ezekiel 25:17]

My boss just told me that if I'm going to whinge about my job whilst being on the internet instead of doing it can I least put my actual title which is 'Business support'.

[Flying Pig]

Yes. I won't go on, but yes.

 

I'll let someone else bang the drum for me.

[Duff Man]

Fuck no.

[Fugitive]

None of you were good enough, hence why you are posting on here.

[G Richards]

None of you were good enough, hence why you are posting on here.

 

True!

[Guest TK-421]

Yes, of course. I'm excellent at most things when I put my mind to it.

 

If you're a regular here you can probably tell from my posts that I have an astute knowledge of the game and an uncanny ability to predict the future.

 

I was a tricky winger but was a bit of a pussy. I would bottle out of the odd 50/50 cos the other lads were tougher than me, but not as quick or skilful. I played in the school team for four consecutive years. We had a midfield player who was signed up for Charlton and he said I "had the touch".

 

I reckon if I solely concentrated on footy I'd have racked up 600 appearances for the Reds, maybe more. But I was so hard, street and cool that I did other stuff like smoking cigarettes and going to rock 'n' roll shows.

[Bogman]

Had trials for England schools, back in Bobby Robson's day, actually met him at Lilleshall.

Turned them down, had Dave Sexton tried to talk me around in my parents living room.

Was very good mates with Kevin Phillips back in the day (Hertfordshire Schools), but now wouldn't know me from Adam. We were at the above trials together, and at one of them, Jamie Redknapp was there too, when he and his old man were at Bournemouth.

 

I was at Luton Town for years, when they had their shite astro turf, then got bombed out before turning pro. Funnily enough, only one player out of the group who was offered pro terms, his mum was shagging the chief scout............

[mrw74]

I played in the same team at Crewe Alex with Rob Jones when I was there for 18 months as a keeper. Dario was and still is a quality coach. I then moved across to Chester City, around the time that Stuart Rimmer was moving to Watford. I was only 14 at the time, but I occasionally trained with the first team and did a lot of work with the goalies. It was from one of them, that I got my FA Cup Final ticket in 1988.

 

Sadly, as happened to a lot of lads, injury put paid to my career, so now I do the next best thing and coach my daughters U10's team instead.

[Anny Road]

I played in goal for Bootle boys. Meaning I was the best goalie of my age in the whole of Bootle. Tremendous.

 

I fucked it off because I wanted to play up front.

[Jairzinho]

Stopped playing aged about 12 or 13. Thought my manager was a shit cunt. Shortly afterwards I started smoking gack bar and fingering girls, and decided it was more for me than football.

 

Not doing nearly as much of any of the three now, sadly.

[Newport]

I could have been a decent poacher, but as that kind of player was more or less shunned back in my days I didn't really stand a chance as the preferred striker was a big twat who could hit a cow's arse.

[withnail71]

I was a decent player as a lad. Good finisher, and i could put a ball on a fivepence from 30 yards, but i had all the pace of a sloth on ketamin.

I joined the army at 16 , discovered beer and pussy, and that was that.

BTW, i played for the royal engineers with a couple of very good young scouse lads who played for Engerlund schoolboys in the 80's.

[Alvaro1107]

No, Im awful.

[Jennings]

Ifithadnerbinfermylackofskill I'd have taken Everton into Europe!

[JohnnyH]

Much better Gaelic footballer and trained with the underage Dublin teams. Was decent at soccer* in the centre back role but we weren't allowed play it in my school (No soccer or rugby allowed) so only started playing it properly from about 17. Would never have been good enough for league of Ireland level but was a decent Sunday league player.

 

*Apologies for using the term “soccer”, but I was trying to differentiate between Gaelic Football and Association Football.