These kids are lucky, they seem to have a reasonably sized piece of ground to play on. We had a small piece of ground called the "The Patch" but the council in their wisdom put a no ball games sign up on it. Didn't stop us of course, just posted two younger kids as look outs for the local Bobby.

On the famous nights when the mighty Wanderers played against the giants of Europe in the fifties we were allowed to stay out late and kick the ball around on the patch to the sounds of the roars from the Molineux three miles away. Very special.

The most intensive games were the two a side "FA Cup" games played with a tennis ball in the street using our front gate and the one opposite as goals. Over a week we did the whole thing, did a full draw with all the eligible clubs and slowly whittled them down to the last two. Early rounds were first to ten, semi's to fif**** and the cup final a full first to twenty. The semi's were played on a neutral ground which was my mates house a few doors down but the final was played at the top of the road because the two posh [ for Bushbury] houses had fancy wrought Iron gates, our Wembly.

Do kids do this kind of stuff any more?

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