Football Is Hard

pb21

Played football on Sunday for the first time in about ten years. Not only was I severely out of breath and sweating buckets after about two minutes I am still suffering from a number of pulls and strains in my legs and I cant walk properly!

I naively thought that my cycling ‘fitness’ would be enough to get me through the kickabout down the park, how wrong I was.

Ben6899

pb21 wrote:

I naively thought that my cycling ‘fitness’ would be enough to get me through the kickabout down the park, how wrong I was.

Way off the mark!

The stop-start nature of the game and short recovery periods will give anyone without match fitness a very hard time. When I was still playing, I used to hate the first few matches of the season despite spending all summer running 5min miles.

mroli

I remember playing football at school after a term of rugby. The fitness needed was of a totally different type - even when the ball was out of play you'd be moving and you didn't get the nice long rests you can get in rugby. Football is impact too, which cycling is not. Different types of exercise - highlighting the fact that you should not just cycle to stay fit...

freehub

No you can cycle to stay fit, it works perfectly well, what it does not do is make you play football well.

Frank the tank

The two sports require totally different types of fitness, and as such can't really be compared.

The best thing if you're fortunate enough is to enjoy them both, I wish I could.

Tom Butcher

The best advice is once you've given up football don't go back for the odd game. I played a tournament last year after several years away - sort a reunion thing - and ended up having to see an osteopath !

ride_whenever

Well that was a silly thing to do, try dipping your hand into a sensible sport where your cycling fitness will help!

I suggest rowing...

Stewie Griffin

I played Cricket for the first time in over 20 years a few Summers ago, still thought that I would be Whispering Death from half way to the boundary. Wheezing and about to be dead from a 9 step run up more like :oops: .

Anonymous

Table football, now there is a game.

Smokin Joe

dmclite wrote:

Table football, now there is a game.

I once had to withdraw from a Subbuteo match after pulling a muscle in my finger. And a tense cup final between me and my best mate had to be abandoned after one of the goals and several players were damaged beyond repair during a heated dispute over an alleged penalty.

finchy

Smokin Joe wrote:

. And a tense cup final between me and my best mate had to be abandoned after one of the goals and several players were damaged beyond repair during a heated dispute over an alleged penalty.

I used to get in some right nasty fights over Subbuteo when I was about 10. One time my mate had me pinned to the ground following an argument about a free kick, and I gave him a really hard knee to the back. He couldn't stand up for 15 minutes after that. :oops:

Smokin Joe

johnfinch wrote:

Smokin Joe wrote:

. And a tense cup final between me and my best mate had to be abandoned after one of the goals and several players were damaged beyond repair during a heated dispute over an alleged penalty.

I used to get in some right nasty fights over Subbuteo when I was about 10. One time my mate had me pinned to the ground following an argument about a free kick, and I gave him a really hard knee to the back. He couldn't stand up for 15 minutes after that. :oops:

That's what I loved about Subbuteo. It's so realistic

Bunneh

I'd still play Subbuteo if I could get away with it, I'd also have all the transformers and Star Wars figures but no, I'm too old to play with toys! Gonna go polish my bike.

rjh299

Bunneh wrote:

I'd still play Subbuteo if I could get away with it, I'd also have all the transformers and Star Wars figures but no, I'm too old to play with toys! Gonna go polish my bike.

pb21

I still cant walk properly due to injuries sustained!

Ben6899

My age means I almost missed Subbuteo - I had a set when I was 9 or 10 years old, but after that Nintendo and SEGA came to the fore.

So our fights were usually related to Sensible Soccer... what one mate saw as a foul, the computer 'referee' let it go and the other mate scored the winner. Cue dead arms, headlocks, powerslams, broken furniture and angry parents.

Good times!

pb21

Sensible soccer for the SNES is possibly the best game ever created. I spent far too much time playing that!

Frank the tank

Subbuteo, what a game. My bro and I once played out an entire F.A.Cup from the first round, it was great.

Stoke City beat Ipswich Town in the final 3-2. Yeah it was THAT reallistic.

Stewie Griffin

pb21 wrote:

Sensible soccer for the Amiga is possibly the best game ever created. I spent far too much time playing that!

Corrected that for you. :P We used to have league nights with up to 7 of us.12 games each at 3 minutes long. There would always be someone whining at the end about not having been given a nailed on pen about 5 hours ago

pb21

Stewie Griffin wrote:

pb21 wrote:

Sensible soccer for the Amiga is possibly the best game ever created. I spent far too much time playing that!

Corrected that for you. :P We used to have league nights with up to 7 of us.12 games each at 3 minutes long. There would always be someone whining at the end about not having been given a nailed on pen about 5 hours ago

On the Amiga did you have the guaranteed goal scoring method of shooting from the halfway line just by the touch line? I scored many a screamer from that position!

Cleat Eastwood

ive still got amiga and my copy of sensi. played it a wee while ago.....boy is it sloooow.

You all should have been in our back kitchen circa 1982....subbuteo world cup Wales 3 Brazil 1.

I still get asked for my autograph

Stewie Griffin

pb21 wrote:

Stewie Griffin wrote:

pb21 wrote:

Sensible soccer for the Amiga is possibly the best game ever created. I spent far too much time playing that!

Corrected that for you. :P We used to have league nights with up to 7 of us.12 games each at 3 minutes long. There would always be someone whining at the end about not having been given a nailed on pen about 5 hours ago

On the Amiga did you have the guaranteed goal scoring method of shooting from the halfway line just by the touch line? I scored many a screamer from that position!

:shock: if that was there then none of us knew about it. Benfica were banned though as they had 4 star players when no one else had more than 3, not even Spurs had 4 :shock:

Ben6899

I have to agree that the Amiga version of Sensi was the definitive one. Last time I played the game was on one of those little consoles where you simply plug two joysticks into the AV (?) sockets on the TV. We'd had 15 pints, a kebab and it was 4 in the morning, but we were still arguing about non-awarded penalties etc!

finchy

My stepbrother had an Amiga so when he brought it down for the summer holidays we wasted hours playing SWOS.

We took charge of KR in Iceland, brought in Richard Sneekes from Bolton and romped to a league and cup double before getting to the UEFA Cup semi-final.

And some people said I'd never amount to anything.

shockedsoshocked

johnfinch wrote:

My stepbrother had an Amiga so when he brought it down for the summer holidays we wasted hours playing SWOS.

We took charge of KR in Iceland, brought in Richard Sneekes from Bolton and romped to a league and cup double before getting to the UEFA Cup semi-final.

And some people said I'd never amount to anything.

Football Manager 2010 is actually ruining my summer. Got Leeds promoted to Premiership, just won the league, league cup and FA cup, and just beat Real Madrid 3-0 in the Champions league. Wesley Schneijder, Aguero, and David Villa, absolutely trolling life.