Twin Football

1. Mark a pitch 20 metres wide and 25 long with a small goal in the middle of each end line. Two teams of two or three pairs, no keepers. With more than twelve players, mark a second pitch.
2. Every player takes a teammate's hand and keeps it for the whole game. Players who would rather not hold hands hold the two ends of a bib instead. With an odd number, one team has a three holding hands in a row.
3. Play a normal match: either player in a pair may play the ball, pass to their partner or to another pair, and shoot.
4. If a pair lets go, the ball goes to the other team, who restart with a pass or a dribble from that spot. The same restart when the ball goes off.
5. After a goal, the team that conceded restarts from its own end line. Play blocks of 3 to 4 minutes, then everyone finds a new partner.

Two players, one body. The player nearer the ball decides whether to take it on, which drags the partner along, or to give it to the partner's foot, and the partner feels that choice through the hand and has to go with it. A pair that wants to run into space has to agree on the direction first, with a word, a look or a tug. On the ball, the pair looks for the gap between two defending pairs, because a pair holding hands is a wall two players wide and the ball does not go through it. Defending, the two decide together who steps towards the ball and who stays between the ball and the goal, without ever letting go.