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Sunday League Dreams (thread for those still playing football)

robp135 said:
Who’s still playing?
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Yeah love it, should play until you're unfit to IMO if you like playing.

Ten years ago my Brentwood Sunday League team won a competition sponsored by Nivea. This meant a seasons coaching with two FA coaches and a few sessions with Ray Wilkins, Clemence and Terry Venables.

We then played a game against an 'England legends' team, the likes of Parlour, Winterburn, Rob Lee etc at Dagenham and Redbridge stadium - was so cool. We won 2-1 and I scored with Ian Walker in goal :D Kind of disappointed he didn't put in a word for me at Spurs but there we go....
 
Sunday I played my 2250th game of 11 a side football. Started keeping track of it as a kid and kept it going on a master excel sheet. Last minute goal secured a 2-2 draw in a game we shoukd have won comfortably.
 
harr1984 said:
Yeah love it, should play until you're unfit to IMO if you like playing.

Ten years ago my Brentwood Sunday League team won a competition sponsored by Nivea. This meant a seasons coaching with two FA coaches and a few sessions with Ray Wilkins, Clemence and Terry Venables.

We then played a game against an 'England legends' team, the likes of Parlour, Winterburn, Rob Lee etc at Dagenham and Redbridge stadium - was so cool. We won 2-1 and I scored with Ian Walker in goal :D Kind of disappointed he didn't put in a word for me at Spurs but there we go....
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Amazing!
 
robp135 said:
Sunday I played my 2250th game of 11 a side football. Started keeping track of it as a kid and kept it going on a master excel sheet. Last minute goal secured a 2-2 draw in a game we shoukd have won comfortably.
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Have you disproved the 500 game rule though, or did you get brick ages ago?!
 
robp135 said:
What’s that?
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There's a theory that players only have 500 high level games in them before their legs/body starts to pack up. So players that breakthrough young, like say Eriksen did or Vuskovic has, might not play into their 30s, whereas late bloomers may have more of a chance

It was in the context of Robertson being well over 500 games, but Sensei being well under it
 
Gutter Boy said:
There's a theory that players only have 500 high level games in them before their legs/body starts to pack up. So players that breakthrough young, like say Eriksen did or Vuskovic has, might not play into their 30s, whereas late bloomers may have more of a chance

It was in the context of Robertson being well over 500 games, but Sensei being well under it
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About 3/4 of the games will have been as a keeper so not to many miles on the clock.
 
Gutter Boy said:
There's a theory that players only have 500 high level games in them before their legs/body starts to pack up. So players that breakthrough young, like say Eriksen did or Vuskovic has, might not play into their 30s, whereas late bloomers may have more of a chance

It was in the context of Robertson being well over 500 games, but Sensei being well under it
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I can believe that, I took a few years off in my early 20's and now at nearly 50 I'm still fudging awesome
 
Gutter Boy said:
I actually did similiar. Missed a lot of my early 20s through injuries. But theb definitely better in late 30s than was in late 20s
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I think to be honest I'm better now because I've been coaching for a few years, decision making is different, play a lot more percentages, never had pace to lose either.
 
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