Ever so slightly topic askew...
I have numerous tales of cricket ball/knackers interfacing and humiliating school showers stories etc. but by and large all of my PE teachers have been reasonably decent human beings. However, I cannot think about school PE lessons without immediately being aware of the greatest pain known to mankind...forget scrunched gonads, forget kidney stones and ladies you can forget childbirth...a wet size 5 leather football full pelt to the bare thigh on a rain soaked, muddy winter's day with the temperature hovering perilously close to zero. Nothing can prepare you.
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Thu 26 Nov 2009, 8:21, 7 replies)

I never played with proper leather footballs
But the flyaways that they sold in my school used to sting like buggery if they ever caught you on a cold day.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 8:53, closed)

An old fashioned leather football
would absorb water when playing in the rain, with the result that its weight increased by a huge amount and its elasticity decreased similarly.

It was like playing football with a pumpkin.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 9:00, closed)

Bloody hell
I'm now rather glad I'm a bit younger!
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 9:02, closed)

Was that the
Mitre Mouldmaster by any chance? Fooking hell, I still get a shiver thinking about it....
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 26 Nov 2009, 9:20, closed)

Can't remember what it was called
but one of the lads at primary school used to have one and on a wet day it would be quite a challenge for 10 year olds to play with!
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:38, closed)

good god
the mouldmaster.

a thing so evil it left dimples in your leg. thank god when i went to secondary we had proper regulation style footballs
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 11:09, closed)

I winced...
...as the memory came back to me. No click for you, you swine.


Well, maybe just a little one.
( Chum Gnomesky Nom Chompsky, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 9:32, closed)