The beautiful game keeps changing with time, new rules and new technologies ensure that football remains as dynamic as ever.
As kids growing up in Nairobi's Eastlands, football was our first love. We ate football, we slept football, we breathed football, and No, we were not mad, we were just passionate.
Here are ten rules of when football was real football.
1. The fat kid was always the goalkeeper.
2. The owner of the ball decided who played.
3. Penalties were awarded only if the injured player cursed a lot.
4. The match only ended when everyone was tired.
5. No referee and lines men. You could run with the ball even behind the goal post.
6. If you didn't participate in repairing the ball you were given a match ban.
7. If you're picked last, you're a loser.
8. The guy who was never picked was to fetch the ball from the tree when it got stuck,under the car or tunnel to play in the next game.
9. When the owner of the ball got annoyed, game over.
10. You were allowed to change a goalkeeper in case of a penalty.
Ladies and gentlemen, i leave you with the words of the great Steven Gerrard, " Don't try to beat the goalkeeper............try to destroy the goalkeeper,"
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