Goalposts

In those distant days goalposts were rectangular(or cuboid to be specific) and made of wood. The Kenton Bar School football team ones were housed I think in the caretaker's secret room round the side of the infants, and the crossbar and side posts had to be carried, set up and bolted together a... laborious chore...Nets we generally only used for games as they were almost as complicated as solving the rubix cube to set up in my opinion...
The Kenton School goalposts however were often left up on the Kenton School field at night or over the weekend,as they were in use every day and a great game to play was 'crossbars' because a)it only needed 2 people to play and b)It developed your aiming technique for taking freekicks.
Now just in case you dont know and come from Mars the object of this game was to hit the crossbar, so you stood facing each other at opposite sides of the goal. If you hit the crossbar you got another go and it might be say the first one to 10.You could also play crossbar doubles with 4 kids. On the downside the fact that the goals were made of wood would make them a target for destruction by hooligans from down the bottom of the estate who played a game called'wreck the goals and spoil the fun'...so sometimes you might traipse up to the field only to face bitter disappointment if those bounders from Gunnerstone, Eland or Dunnykirk had gone on the rampage in the dead of night...

Below the football scene from Kes, with Casper and his mates showing some more unconventional uses for goalposts...whole scene-well worth watching, but go 3:10 then 9:04 if you haven't got the time!