The_Rev Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 They were called "floaters" when I was growing up in the eighties. Then somebody decided that floaters was a better word to describe a poo which floats and that was that. My son loves the floaty football though. He is barely 18 months old and every time we go down the park he does everything in his power to interrupt other people's game of football by charging onto the pitch and trying to grab the ball Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PompeyVillan Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 They were just a football until a kid from Newcastle came to play in our football team, who called them 'penny floaters', which stuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 Fly always? FLY AWAYS?! What nonsense is this? Air Floaters people. I'm with Ingram. I remember trying to do my best Clarence Seedorf impression by blasting a shot with one of those. As you can expect it went nowhere near the goal, it kind of went straight, curved right up into the air and took a sharp right and flew off somewhere else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hogso Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 Yep they're floaters. Had never heard them referred to as flyaways until the previous page, although that is a pretty good description. At least it's not as diverse as batch/cob/roll/bun/barm cake. I do recall some posh kids who used to call them 10p floaters. Pffff... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted April 21, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted April 21, 2013 Are there any VTers running in the VLM today, do we know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houlston Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 Plastic blow aways I think we called them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meath_Villan Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 Like the cob innit bruv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8pints Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 They were called "floaters" when I was growing up in the eighties. Then somebody decided that floaters was a better word to describe a poo which floats and that was that. My son loves the floaty football though. He is barely 18 months old and every time we go down the park he does everything in his power to interrupt other people's game of football by charging onto the pitch and trying to grab the ball Sounds like a right hooligan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 We called them ecky ecky ecky ecky ptang zoom biong nourrwringmm. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frobisher Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 Are there any VTers running in the VLM today, do we know? I don't think he is on here but a Villa supporting mate of mine ran today. Raised over 6 grand for Acorns. I'm just waiting to hear his time now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted April 21, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted April 21, 2013 Actually, I must stop calling it the VLM, it pisses me off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCforever1991 Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 Sorry to go back to the air football debate but I'm interested to know if there are any regional differences in the generally agreed term for a leather football as a child. We referred to it as a "caser". Any one else? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 21, 2013 Author VT Supporter Share Posted April 21, 2013 They were called "floaters" when I was growing up in the eighties. Then somebody decided that floaters was a better word to describe a poo which floats and that was that. My son loves the floaty football though. He is barely 18 months old and every time we go down the park he does everything in his power to interrupt other people's game of football by charging onto the pitch and trying to grab the ball Is your son a dog? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hogso Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 Sorry to go back to the air football debate but I'm interested to know if there are any regional differences in the generally agreed term for a leather football as a child. We referred to it as a "caser". Any one else? Yeah we just called those footballs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 Sorry to go back to the air football debate but I'm interested to know if there are any regional differences in the generally agreed term for a leather football as a child. We referred to it as a "caser". Any one else? Yeah we just called those footballs seconded, it's called a football Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumerican Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 We used to try and play gutters (kerby) with a fly-away football as kids. What a futile game that was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frobisher Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 Sorry to go back to the air football debate but I'm interested to know if there are any regional differences in the generally agreed term for a leather football as a child. We referred to it as a "caser". Any one else? We used to call them casers too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Alimantado Posted April 21, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted April 21, 2013 Flyaways and casers for me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 Sorry to go back to the air football debate but I'm interested to know if there are any regional differences in the generally agreed term for a leather football as a child. We referred to it as a "caser". Any one else? I can also report they were called casers in Nuneaton in the 80s and early 90s. You got mad respect if you had something like an Adidas Tango. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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