Kerby also played in the streets of Ardwick Manchester; As was "3 goals in" - street kickabout with the goalposts painted onto the dead-end wall of some poor bleeder's end of terraced house! Depending where your neighbourhood was, also painted between the posts were either M/C City or United.
Rally-vo was another hunt and chase game where the object of the hunter was to identify each of the hunted by sight and then leg it back to touch base at the "den". If the hunter got there before the spotted individual then that identified individual was caught. Anyone who was caught had to wait there doing nowt until either EVERYONE was caught and the game ended or until one of the hunted 100% evaded being spotted by the hunter and managed to get back and touch base at the den BEFORE the hunter saw him or her and got there first. This then bolluxed the game totally as the rules dictated everyone had been released and it started all over again!!
Ropes slung round lamp-posts side struts to make very serviceable swings kept us busy at times as did making helicopters by digging up bubbles of the melting pitch in the cobbled streets and working a solid blob of it onto the tail end of pigeon feathers. Made great whirlybirds but bolluxed your Mam's tea towels trying to get the tar off yer hands. . . .
Evening Johnno.
Read lots of your posts in the various Man U threads, and you seem like a sound fella who talks a lot of sense.
It's a pleasure to 'speak' to you at last
Re the bolded above...
We used to call it 'alarlee-o' when we played it in the street, and 'manhunt' when we played it in the woods for some reason.
Another variation of the game was 'kick the can'.
Place a tin can on the pavement by the den (usually a lamppost), find a player and run back to the den until they had all been found.
If a player was able to get to the den before you, he kicked the can and all the players you had found were set free
Happy days
