But me and my kids are the only people I’ve ever known to use them. If we had a goal with nets back in the day we would have done nothing else.

When we were kids, we found an old discarded set of nets in our field, from one of the teams that played there.

Closer to our house had a row of big trees, about the right width for a set of goals.

We took a hammer and some nails, and put nails in the back of both trees and bent them to form hooks, we used to hook the nets on the tree every night and play for hours.

the goalmouth between the trees was really uneven, so we took spades out, dug it up, kept the turf and evened it out, then put the turf back down.

I even stole grass seeds from my dads shed and put them down.

We had a cracking little area to play footy, as soon as everyone found out we had nets, they wanted to join in. 

Good times.