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Begs the question what was your top sporting achievement by 13?
As well playing in the winning side in the Braintree primary schools competition aged 11, I also played wicket keeper for the reserves at secondary school and took a leg side catch that was so good, it still leaves me warm amd fuzzy when thinking about it. My batting was a bit sh1t though, don't think I ever got into double figures.
I got picked as the middle schools 2nd XI keeper, unfortunately my parents refused to take me to the game so I didn't actually play. Never got picked again after that.
I guess I was slightly above average at x-country and hockey at that age.
the question it begs for me is should a 'sport' where the silver and bronze medals are won by 12 and 13 year olds really be an olympic sport? Maybe we can have a pokemon go event next time or perhaps a tiktok heptathlon...
Skye Brown medals at 13 years old... on 11:48 - Aug 4 by Skip_Intro
the question it begs for me is should a 'sport' where the silver and bronze medals are won by 12 and 13 year olds really be an olympic sport? Maybe we can have a pokemon go event next time or perhaps a tiktok heptathlon...
Skye Brown medals at 13 years old... on 10:35 - Aug 4 by RadioOrwell
I was playing chess with someone. He said '"let's make this interesting" So we stopped playing.
It is the Game of Kings! It's the only game I've played that has continually challenged me and has kept my attention for all these years. Amazing game. Its reputation isn't the best I will give you that but once you get beyond the absolute beginner stage and start to formulate strategy it's fascinating.
Runners up medal. West Suffolk Schools FA Cup. Looks like an Iron Cross. I wasn’t supposed to be playing but the usual school keeper got himself suspended for fighting. We lost 9-1...
It's 106 miles to Portman Road, we've got a full tank of gas, half a round of Port Salut, it's dark... and we're wearing blue tinted sunglasses.
Skye Brown medals at 13 years old... on 12:21 - Aug 4 by mutters
It is the Game of Kings! It's the only game I've played that has continually challenged me and has kept my attention for all these years. Amazing game. Its reputation isn't the best I will give you that but once you get beyond the absolute beginner stage and start to formulate strategy it's fascinating.
I know, it's just a gag I remember.
I'm completely hopeless at it and wish I was able to have a useful game.
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Skye Brown medals at 13 years old... on 14:19 - Aug 4 with 1391 views
At 13 I was playing football, basketball and rugby for school, all to a level that suggested a career away from sport beckoned, and turning out at left back for Guildford City, modelled on Irvin Gernon.
Came third in our interform football tournament. I went in goal. Went down to penalties. With everyone watching, as the final had finished, I saved two and they hit the bar on another.
Was at the same school John Ruddy, in the the year above, so not sure why I wasn't scouted...
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Aged 13 in 1987, I was in goal for my team (Witham Dynamo's) epic 7-a-side romp to the title in the Mid-Essex under 14's 7-a-side Trophy.
My mum and dad came to watch. It was barely a week after Coventry had shocked Spurs in the Cup Final and every kid was practising their "Houchen Headers", diving full length to nod the ball past the keeper and, more often than not, sliding face-first through the mud and detritus in the penalty area as the ball went out for a throw.
We beat Cyclones 8-0 in the opener, a result which saw us play 6 men after their striker got sent off for saying "B*llocks". The second round was a tense 0-0 until we scored with a minute left to put Maldon Saints out, the goal coming from a kid who was on growth hormones and who scored it by standing in the way of a defender's mighty clearance; it hit his head and wrong-footed their keeper.
The Quarter Final saw us easily beat Hatfield Peverel 3-0, with several of my friends in the Hatfield line-up. They'd taken the mick earlier about my knee length white socks, calling me "Sindy", so that one was sweet. The Semi-Final against Broomfield was a tight, nervy game enlivened by an unexpected equaliser from us just seconds after Broomfield took the lead. Unexpected in that I scored direct from a scrambled goalmouth clearance in my goal with a lob reminiscent of Jason Cundy for Spurs at PR in the '90's. We eventually won 2-1 with a late goal, which caused their keeper to burst into tears and be consoled by his mum, who called us "little sh*ts" for our jammy winner.
The final was, ironically, the easiest game of the lot. We played a team from Notley who had somehow managed to avoid defeat by the simple tactic of all-out defending with one bloke up the pitch picking off stray passes and netting. They'd won every game 1-0. We scored first and they didn't know what to do and we ended up winning 12-0.
I've still got the trophy, a silver-plated player on a plinth with my name and my team name etched professionally. True, it was probably cheap and the player has now lost his head and right arm and jagged cheap metal shows where both body parts were formerly situated, but it evokes memories of muddy knees, goalie gloves with black rubber on the inner fingers and palm and the smell of dogsh*t on boots.
Skye Brown medals at 13 years old... on 19:59 - Aug 4 by GeoffSentence
We had a PE teacher who insisted, absolutely insisted, that we couldn't wear pants to play rugby because 'the professionals don't'.
A couple of decades later and he would be in serious danger of investigation.
Same here. Mine was Welsh and he used to call them ‘shreddies’ for some reason. We had 25 mins to run from the school building to the games field and he used make all those who failed, touch their toes whilst he caned them with a flagpost.
If you didn’t have tie-ups for your rugger socks, he’d beat your sorry arse with a size 12 dap.
He also had a box of manky old swimming trunks that he used make kids wear if they forgot their swimming kit. No towel, you had to drip dry.
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Still not really clear why Squash isn't an Olympic sport 
