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Ah those were the days, we would have great fun,
Football matches,football tennis, 'Lawn Tennis' on the concrete, using the tar as lines. Even double, but we did not have the extra tramlines down the side. Looking back the dispute over whether it was a goal when it went over the arm of a coat, was funny, it was life and death at the time....lol
Another game we played was to hit the lamp post (usually at a corner of an L shape road)with the football.First to score 10. Each time you hit the post you had to go back to a designated spot about 20/30 yards away. If you hit the lamp post from here you earned great kudos, from your fellow players, if you hit the lamp post with extreme venom from the designated spot, you moved into short term folklore !! This was risky, because if you hit the kerb with the ball at speed, there was agreat chance of it going in a garden so it would be delicately balance.If you hit it in to a garden
you had to retrive it ,needless to say we would stand right behind you

!!!! , But if you got caught you were on your own !!. ,then again there was always one bad apple that would not retrive it and knew that you would as it was your football !!
Now if you damaged anything this was a different matter. The exception being flowers, though you could get an earful if you were caught.
ah great fun looking back. Thing have really changed these days with most people having cars, it is hard to have a decent game on the road.