I've always been a team player, maybe too much so not taking credit where sometimes it is due.

Team player.Wasn't the best individually so had to rely on my teammates.

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Stoolball?

You must be a Sussex boy

comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 1 minute ago
I've always been a team player, maybe too much so not taking credit where sometimes it is due.
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oh Busby.. youre my hero

It was all about me at school....i could live with losing 7-1 as long as I scored the 1. Much more of a team player now though, honest...

I think if you’re a serial sub (even as a professional footballer) a part of you must be wishing failure on the guy chosen in front of you. It’s surely a part of human nature?!

Take Flo at Chelsea? He must’ve really wanted Zola, Hughes, Weah etc to have mares so he could go on and show it was wrong to not select him?!

Cricket I was the worst batsman going so couldn't take the glory, I got middle stumped facing my first ever bowl by a bird, didn't get to bat again. Still got picked for my fielding abilities.

Rugby I must have been the greediest tight head prop in the county.

I mainly excelled in individual sports.

Team player - I was a "striker" with double the assists I had goals, I think I was playing the wrong position.

Though I also did 100/200m sprinting, which is obviously very individual.

I was a lazy goal poacher (Andy Cole was my fave player growing up) so used to get shouted at a lot. Even scored 51 goals in a season and still was called lazy haha.

There was one guy on our team. Total cant called Simon who was very skilful but never ever ever used to pass. Bumped into him a couple of years ago and he's a mouthy sales manager. Seems apt for how he was on the pitch. Cant.

Always been more of a team player

Back in primary school 7-a-side football, my team and I pioneered the 0-3-3 formation, myself being the sweeper keeper/only defender in the side (as I was pretty decent in goal and could put in a tackle), with 1 CM ahead, 2 wingers and 3 strikers.

We'd regularly put 5+ goals past the other teams, and conceded very little. I never got the plaudits myself, and the formation never really caught on, but we won almost every game so I was happy.

Individual, I scored a goal and got an assist the other weekend in a 5-2 loss. I did my part so don't give a fack really.

I was quite a greedy footballer...................

Then Glenn Hoddle became Chelsea Manager and i suddenly became the exponent of the "long pass"

Stool-ball? WTf is that? It sounds quite unhygienic.

comment by HenrysCat (U3608)
posted 4 minutes ago
Stool-ball? WTf is that? It sounds quite unhygienic.
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Basically you had wooden bats, you were protecting what looked like (I can only compare to) an estate agents’ placard and you had to score more runs than the opposition.

A very common game down our way

Was a team player, most people just wanted to play up front, I was the back tracker/defender, was decent at picking out a pass too so a lot of the time I'd be one of the first to get picked because I was appreciated for being one of the few who didn't want the glory for me, I'd still scream and rant at others for being terrible though

scored 87 goals in 1 season... but starngely enough i was a team player.... i was just very good

Team player. Rubbish at football, so never got picked for any team, not even in the yard.
Decent slow bowler though, played for the school and the old boys after. Not a bad fielder, but couldn't bat for toffee

I used to wear the number ten shirt for the school footy team - played right wing. Wore number ten in the rugby team - played fly half and was tenth in bat in the cricket team.

I don't think we bothered with assists stats when I was a kid. Knew I set a few up though.

I've always been a team player in a sporting context, thought like a manager since I've been walking lol

In school I was always picked either 2nd or 3rd on the playground, captained my groups in all tournaments between the years, always picked for the school, etc... simply because I enjoyed reading the game from the back and ALWAYS held my position, sometimes when I should've gone further forward. Couldn't pass, wasn't fast, not particularly strong, was useless from set pieces, but I used to tackle like a freak/just threw anything in front of the ball.

A skillful little handful by the name of Yaser Kasim (now plays for Swindon), was the only guy who frequently got the better of me. But still take pride in being one of the only people in the entire school who could at least slow him down a bit

Positions I played were never glory positions. Centre midfield and not a goalscoring one! The forwards used to let me take penalties just so I could score a couple.

And when I played rugby it was scrum half. So basically getting the ball and giving it to the bigger or faster players.

Depressingly team focused I'm afraid.

I was just good at attacking and scoring goals naturally but I did do the dirty work of defending..whatever it took to win.

Stool Ball? I take it went to school down my way. Its a local game only really played in Sussex.

I was a team player, winning was always the aim. At my school, anyone who didnt put the effort in got verbal abuse from everyone else.

very much a team player and I enjoyed team sports much more than individual sports. nothing like the feeling of winning as a team when your backs were against the wall, and sharing your success with your team mates.

the downside of being in a team is when someone lets you down, or if someone in your team is a caaaant