footiestories + music tales: Street Footie Liverpool style

footiestories + music tales: Street Footie Liverpool style: Growing up in Liverpool playing football in the street . I would oftern wondered who invented the diffrent types of games we played. I remem...

Street Footie Liverpool style

Liverpool team training in the main stand car park 

Growing up in Liverpool playing football in the street . I would oftern wondered who invented the diffrent types of games we played. I remember being told by one of my older in the know mates that a lot of them stemed from Melwood . This has always stuck in my head so with Mellwood always being on the telly I have decided to investagate.

The one game that is most likley to have a conection to Mellwood that I can put my finger on is S.P.O.T . A one touch game you had to score in a chalk drawn goal on a wall . If you missed you were on S . The next player would have a easy penlty shot to start again .(Sort of football squash) When you reached SPOT you were out. I remember full stops commers and underlining comming into play for longer games.



At Melwood there was four large wooden walls that the players would use. So I can see that one having some wieght behind it. At Melwood Shankly introduced fitness training, including diet assessment, and skills training including using an artificial goal painted on a convenient wall, split into eight sections which he would demand the players hit each time.

Sixty Seconds was a another game (Headers and volleys and Goalkeeper training) The keeper counts to sixty when he concedes from a header or a full volley he starts from zero . But the strikers have to score twice and so on. When the keeper reaches sixty the strikers have only one chance when a strikers misses he goes in goal...It was rumored Keegan and Toshack would train this way a lot it makes sense

Who knows is that what Suarez and Surridge are up to at the moment. It would be great if they could get to the level that Keegan and Toshack did.

There was also a five a side game we would play called saddles were you would have to hit the goal posts instead of scoring goals.Double score if you hit the bar It was also two touch so the movement was the key to the game not a game for the unfit . So did this game have its origin on the fields of Melwood I don,t know . But if so we should stop using it now the number times we have hit the woodwork this season.


Then there was 3 and in (Wembley down south) The game that is know for the quicker you score the quicker you rest . The way games pan out rest is so important. (Its is a knackering game) I could not imagine what it would be like to play with top class professionals


So have these games got links with pro football training camps??? .

WHAT DO YOU THINK ????? DID YOU PLAY ANY OTHER STREET FOOTIE GAMES