Post Views:
21
Everyone has played football at an amateur level at some point in their lives… Even the glorious Messi and Ronaldo. It’s a great level of the game where everyone just has a good laugh with their mates and plays the best sport in the world. So here are 20 relatable moments that YOU would have definitely encountered during your footy playing days.
20 relatable moments every amateur footballer experiences (as illustrated by Messi and Ronaldo)
1. When you take penalties, free-kicks, corners, throw ins and goal kicks because you’re by far the best player in the team…but someone moans about it.
2. When you completely obliterate an opponent with a horrendous three-footed tackle to the face and your manager asks you if you got the ball.
3. When you’ve just put in the performance of the century and someone mentions the vote for man of the match…
4. …but when that vote comes in and you find out one person didn’t vote for you.
5. When you’re the only genius to bring ankle tape but everyone else uses it before you until there’s no more left.
6. When you can hear the opposition chatting about you being bad at football and you can’t wait for the game to start to bang in a hat-trick and prove them wrong.
7. When you find out the post-match food is a healthy salad rather than the usual sausage and chip combo.
8. When you turn up late and have to wear one of the old footy shirts that no one likes.
9. When your girlfriend turns up to see you play.
10. When one of the lads says a funny joke that you don’t get and you try to fit in.
11. When you get nutmegged twice in the warm up.
12. When you get abused for doing nothing all game so work hard for ten seconds to prove the haters wrong.
13. When someone asks you how you scored that amazing goal and you must try to be modest even though you know full well that you scored that goal because you are God’s gift to football.
14. When you’re dossing banter back and forth and then someone goes too far with a “your mum” joke.
15. When you hear the opposition say “show him onto his left” and then you use it to ping one in from 30 yards.
16. When the captain goes off the pitch and you take the armband from him and nobody stops you.
17. When someone asks who is the best player in the team is and you are done playing the modest game.
18. When you only have four studs between two football boots and the ref checks but lets you play anyway.
19. When you’re pulling out of the car park ready to go home and you drive past the gobby lad who has been giving you problems all match.
20. When the can relate a little too well to the chant “who ate all the pies” and you do your first sprint in a game.
