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This is also well worth a read:-
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Above-Head-Height-Five-Side/dp/1786481766
Some of the descriptions of the different types of 5-a-side player ring very true.
That and the notion that you can play football with/against some people for 15+ years and still don't know their surnames, their real first names, whether they've got families or, in the case of some people, anything about them at all.
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My dad occasionally trots out the story of playing in a team with Jimi Hendrix's manager every Saturday for a couple of years. Had no idea until he saw his death reported in the paper...
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that was what the one jonny posted was all about, dispite not knowing much more than a nickname first name there is a friendship in that hour or so of running about !
thanks for the link will checkit out in need of a new read.
Soul
Rich_G
blimey hope the blokes ok and your ok not a nice thing to see.
there was great article that @jonny posted a while back about the playing 5aside and knowing the people you play with just in that 5 a side space and the friendships with in that.
i was looking for it the other day, great piece.