Football fans bored by England's performances at the Euros can kick up their own fun - with a game that's been dubbed the "crazy golf of football".
Yard Ball gives fans the chance to relive childhood memories of kickabouts against garages against a backdrop of music, graffiti and cars from the 1980s and 90s.
The £1million attraction in Sheffield, South Yorks., aims to transport visitors back to a time when kids played out until the street lights came on.
Based on creator Scott Riley's childhood on a council estate in the city, it has seen a disused warehouse converted into an 'immersive street football-themed experience'.
He said he wanted to give younger generations the chance to experience the beautiful game in 'its purest form'.
Yard Ball gives fans the chance to relive childhood memories of kickabouts against garages against a backdrop of music, graffiti and cars from the 1980s and 90s.
The £1million attraction in Sheffield, South Yorks., aims to transport visitors back to a time when kids played out until the street lights came on.
Based on creator Scott Riley's childhood on a council estate in the city, it has seen a disused warehouse converted into an 'immersive street football-themed experience'.
He said he wanted to give younger generations the chance to experience the beautiful game in 'its purest form'.
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00:00My name's Scott Riley, I'm the founder of Yardball.
00:04My name's Oliver Booth, I'm the creative director at Yardball.
00:07So the concept really was born out of a little bit of boredom during lockdown
00:13and just based around my kids.
00:18I had the chat of what I did as a child growing up on the council estate where I lived
00:25and I played football every day but my pitch was a yard, a set of garages, a pub car park
00:33and I was explaining all the things that we did.
00:38From that moment on it was a bit like well how do I create this concept for the younger
00:45generation to enjoy and move them away from the modern day football that we know.
00:51I lived in a masonette which had a yard, on the yard we had washing lines which became
00:57goalposts, we had council garages that became nets, that was our pitch essentially
01:04and we had a pub at the bottom of the road which had a light on, a security light,
01:09so as the night drew in we would move to the pub car park, play Wembley, play heads and volleys.
01:16So that side of it was really easy and then I met Oliver, we expanded the idea and
01:24we grew it really and it was almost like how do we take a council estate
01:31environment and maybe amp it up a little bit, turn it into more of a leisure idea so we started
01:36with the foundations of a council estate and growing up in the 90s and we expanded it
01:42really and that's where Oliver came in and added more creativity in terms of the different
01:47styles of challenges and how we might enhance them and how we might change and pivot and add
01:53more things in really. A lot of the little games that and the challenges that are involved are
01:57sort of games we play at home with our kids on the garden, chipping it into buckets, chipping it
02:02through hula hoops, that sort of thing so it's combining that sort of playful edge of football
02:08without being super serious and sort of gamifying it in a really immersive venue.
02:13We obviously had a team to build it, makers and creators but no the creative concept was just
02:18defined by us both really. To get something of this scale and this size we've probably spent
02:26shy of £950 million which is a lot of money but you know I had to find investment for that
02:34and the scale of the building dictated really the budget. Families can play it, groups of adults can
02:40play it on their own, groups of kids can play on their own, grassroots teams can come, even
02:44corporates like there's literally an angle for every different element of people. Even from a
02:49social element which is really important to us it's getting people talking, it's getting people
02:54remembering. Space is just full of so much visual and little triggers and nuances that
03:00one person might pick up on and another might not but that'll just trigger a little memory or
03:05a story or a conversation starter and before you know it you're off down a rabbit hole talking about
03:11what you used to do when you were 10. There's a real common denominator there where everyone's
03:17got a different view of it but then they can come together and share very similar memories.
03:22Sheffield is the home of football, it had to be in Sheffield. We're both from Sheffield,
03:28we have got plans for all major cities. Football's universal, we've all had the
03:34same upbringing just in different postcodes so we genuinely think this will transcend
03:40across the major cities in England and yeah we already can't wait to do the next one.