Take a tour of Yard Ball, the amazing new retro street football experience in Sheffield

The Star, Sheffield

See some of the quirky challenges awaiting visitors at the new attraction on Little London Road, Heeley, which is due to open on July 15, 2024

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00:00We're here at Yardball with Oliver Booth, one of the co-founders.

00:05Oliver, can you tell me a little bit about Yardball and the concept behind it?

00:09Yes, of course.

00:10So this is a restaurant slash bar slash caf, which we've called, obviously it's going to

00:17be called The Greening, based on the amazing paper from the 80s and 90s.

00:22We've got a few karaoke rooms on the right hand side.

00:25We've got party rooms down further down there for all the kids' parties.

00:29This is the area where you'll be able to grab a bite to eat and drink after you've been

00:34in the main area, which is the challenge zone.

00:36So we'll pop through there and have a look at that now.

00:54Excuse some of the noise, we're having some work still done.

01:00So this is the main football challenge area.

01:04We've got about 20 different challenges.

01:08Everything is based around the 80s and 90s and it's where we made our memories and played

01:15football on the street, played football in garages and had loads of fun as kids.

01:20We've found everything based on sort of landmarks from our actual childhood.

01:26The garages there are all based on the garages that Scott used to play on when he was a kid.

01:30The Labour Social over this corner, this is a reference base and a pub that we used to

01:35play football on.

01:37And all the different challenges are based on taking different shots.

01:41We've got some that are more delicate, little loft shots.

01:44We've got other ones further up here where you can really put your foot through it, soccer

01:47aim style, and try and find the top bin.

01:51We've got other ones where you can play as a team.

01:53You can play with your friends.

01:55So the crossbar challenge in the park over there, three or four people can quite easily

01:59play that together.

02:01And then moving further on, right into the back, is where we go into the sort of culture

02:06of the nightlife in Sheffield where we've got all things based on the battle of the bands

02:11of the 90s and straight through to rave music and the amazing music scene in Sheffield with

02:17the Republic.

02:21So every set that we've designed and built is a target.

02:31In effect, you can aim for literally any different part of it that you want to.

02:35Some are speakers, some are holes in the wall, some are through doors, some are bins in nets.

02:42Anything will be a target and each one will have different points.

02:46So when you come with your friends and your family, you can have a little bit of friendly

02:49competitiveness, go for different shots and ultimately try and get the top score.

02:54Are you able to have a go at a couple of your favourites?

02:56Yeah, indeed, let's go.

03:20So you can go for, these ones are targets, so top corner targets, you can go and try

03:24and get the beneath one, you can pop it over the wall if you want.

03:31And as well as these bigger ones here, we've got smaller charges as well, where we can

03:36go and do smaller little individual targets.

03:40So this one's quite a fun one.

03:42This is the final round based on obviously having serviced 30 times.

03:47The trick here is to try and get it into the top area of the trophies.

03:51If he hits it too far, he'll go straight over.

03:59And you were saying one of the other favourites is the speed of the...

04:03The speed shot's a great one, yeah.

04:05Have a look at that.

04:18Perfect.

04:22The speed shot, this one gets ultra competitive when there's a group of people in.

04:27So this one is a pure shot of power, see if we can get the top score.

04:3438 for that one.

04:37This has been really better than that.

04:41It's getting worse.

04:43As soon as people get on this though, this is where the people are going to go for it.

04:46And yeah, when are you opening?

04:48So the plan is to open mid-July, the 15th.

04:51So we've just opened the booking system, so you can book to come from then on in.

04:56We will be offering packages for families, doing kids parties, corporate events, all sorts of stuff.

05:02So yeah, check out the website and get booking.

05:05Thank you.

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