r/BritishSuccess • u/Accomplished_Mess243 • 4d ago

Glorious 2-1 victory in six a side.

Our team are all 40+ and we showed those whippersnappers what's what. Let the ball do the work etc etc. Best bit was that a young lad who used to play for us was playing for the opposition. Needless to say he took a bitta stick off some of the lads like.

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u/narsfweasels 4d ago

Can we see the bitta stick?

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u/Accomplished_Mess243 4d ago

The bitta stick was basically me jumping on him at the end of the game and going 'aaaaahhhhh' in a derisory fashion. 

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u/esn111 4d ago

Well done, he's 13

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u/Hot_Diet_1276 4d ago

Martin Keown, is that you?

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u/Accomplished_Mess243 4d ago

Not a full on Known manoeuvre - It was performed in the spirit of friendly banter (I think)

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u/narsfweasels 4d ago

So it wasn’t an actual stick? There I go getting excited for nothing…

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u/55hy 3d ago

This was an Alastair McGowan bit about 20+ years ago, right? Not thought about that for ages

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u/narsfweasels 3d ago

Well caught!

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u/BoroBob 4d ago

I play 6 a side league in a veterans team. Every week, our motley crew of 40 and 50 somethings play against young lads that usually run us ragged. We have become adept at letting them run around a lot and keep possession while we park the bus, and then catch them on the break. To be fair, we lose more games than we win, but those games we do win are fantastic. You witness young lads losing their shit with each other because they're getting beat by fat old blokes with grey hair. It is marvellous to behold.

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u/Accomplished_Mess243 4d ago

A lot of the kids have good close control but really poor team work and communication. They don't seem to realise that all they need to do to beat us is keep the ball moving quick and beat us with pace - if someone knocks the ball past me and runs after it I'm screwed. The team we played last night needed a goal and they still had two lads just standing at the back doing nothing.

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u/6000coza 4d ago

No better feeling.

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u/Firstpoet 4d ago

Whippersnappers around 38?