Bicycle Kick

I find it very strange that a Bicycle Kick is now synonymous with a Scissors Kick. In my youth a long time ago they were entirely different things. The scissors kick was an overhead kick resembling the motion of scissors in which the legs are mostly straight, the bicycle kick was a method of hitting a ball which is off the ground and you leapt up and did a cycling motion and hit the ball. It was a very good method of getting over a ball that was off the ground. It seems to have totally disappeared from the modern game unfortunately, and it leads to players skying too many balls over the bar. Schlupp's effort yesterday would have benefited from such an approach.