Careless kickers: Lost Footballs new book

There’s few sadder sights for fans of the beautiful game than a lost football toe-punted into a lake, spooned over a fence or chipped into a tree.

The national debt of the country could be paid by collecting all the footballs lost on school rooves.

Matthew Lutz and Adam Barfield run the @lostfootballs site on Twitter and Instagram, collating photos on discarded balls so that everyone might take a bit more care with their shots while playing headers and volleys.

There’s a brilliant book out on the subject, with funds supporting the Sporting Memories Foundation who work with older people through the power of sports reminiscence and physical activity.

Everyone who has hooned a ball where it shouldn’t go should buy a copy here but for now let’s sit back and enjoy some lost football photography and mourn those footballs tantalisingly out of reach.

Unpalatable.

Passed like a shot.

Pray for redemption.

Bussed. Pic: @daveynicnufc on Twitter.

Plenty to come.

Seek and you shall find.

You can follow Lost Footballs on Twitter and Instagram: @lostfootballs