Most difficult footballing skill

[brikkis]

[Rich]

The amount of ego on this thread is very entertaining, sounds like we'd have a world beating team....

[Harv]

I'd say the most difficult skill is swerving the ball round a wall. I can do all the other stuff easily enough

Thats one thing that i have mastered. When i was a kid i used to practice every afternoon for a couple of hours...hitting 30 yarder after 30 yarder.

I could bend it both ways, and put so much loop on it it will make Beckham cream his pants

Also helped with hitting long balls, and putting just the right amount of curl on it so it runs perfectly for the advancing player.

I'd still say heading for goal is the hardest. Im absolutely shocking at it.

[Harv]

kicking the ball with your legs crossed..... not that hard in it's self but some players, Ronaldo & J.Cole can kick it 30 yards like that!

why would you want to do that though. If you **** up you look like a knob

[brikkis]

Thats one thing that i have mastered. When i was a kid i used to practice every afternoon for a couple of hours...hitting 30 yarder after 30 yarder.

I could bend it both ways, and put so much loop on it it will make Beckham cream his pants

Also helped with hitting long balls, and putting just the right amount of curl on it so it runs perfectly for the advancing player.

I'd still say heading for goal is the hardest. Im absolutely shocking at it.

Just think, if you could head, you'd be as good as me

[brikkis]

The amount of ego on this thread is very entertaining, sounds like we'd have a world beating team....

You stick to bowls mate

[Harv]

Just think, if you could head, you'd be as good as me

my worst feature of my game is my nasty streak. It doesnt come out very often...but its always there.

[brikkis]

my worst feature of my game is my nasty streak. It doesnt come out very often...but its always there.

I've a waving elbow. We all have our faults

[Guest]

I'm sure I'm the best of you lot though.

[brikkis]

[Harv]

I've a waving elbow. We all have our faults

almost got in a fight tonight actually. This guy was trying to throw his weight around a bit....so i put in a biting tackle next chance i got. He wasn't happy about it. Next time he got the ball....BAM! again. These weren't dirty, i got the ball, but he ended up on his ass both times.

I then went forward, and when i got the ball he tried to go throught the back of me....i threw myself backwards, as i could feel the challenge coming. I ended up cleaning him up again.

I then gave his ankles a tap as he ran off with the ball...he swung his arm back and hit me in the chest. "im gonna ****en crack you in a sec!!" he says. I said "come on you sook" and feined a punch. He jumped and then played the rest of the game on the other side of the pitch

[brikkis]

I then gave his ankles a tap as he ran off with the ball...he swung his arm back and hit me in the chest. "im gonna ****en crack you in a sec!!" he says. I said "come on you sook" and feined a punch. He jumped and then played the rest of the game on the other side of the pitch

That sort of thing goes on with us lot every week and we know each other!

[alunevans]

Never mind juggling the ball when running, or the Cruyff turn, what is the most difficult footballing skill to master?

Is it heading the ball, trapping it, volleying it, or controlling it?

Maybe it's the long pass, swerved pass or passing with the 'wrong' foot?

Or maybe it's tackling, dribbling, scoring or saving goals?

I'd say being able to instantly bring the ball under control is the most difficult as you never know from which angle the ball will come to you and you have to use different parts of the body to do it.

For me its running round in five a side for longer than four minutes without saying "**** it mate, lets go in goal"

[ningnangnong]

almost got in a fight tonight actually. This guy was trying to throw his weight around a bit....so i put in a biting tackle next chance i got. He wasn't happy about it. Next time he got the ball....BAM! again. These weren't dirty, i got the ball, but he ended up on his ass both times.

I then went forward, and when i got the ball he tried to go throught the back of me....i threw myself backwards, as i could feel the challenge coming. I ended up cleaning him up again.

I then gave his ankles a tap as he ran off with the ball...he swung his arm back and hit me in the chest. "im gonna ****en crack you in a sec!!" he says. I said "come on you sook" and feined a punch. He jumped and then played the rest of the game on the other side of the pitch

Haha, sounds like some kid i played the other week.

I nudged him in the back in the 'box' and he went down like a sack of spuds, didn't get anything from the ref the diving ****, so he gets up and as he's running back to halfway, he says 'push me again you **** and i'll ****ing deck you', i said a few words back, didn't see him again for the rest of the game.

[tommyg]

For me it would have to be the ability to beat a player 1v1, from a dead-ball. I mean sure if you've already got some pace its not hard to wrong-step the opponent but dribbling from a deadball around a player is tough for me