Toepoke

There are moments today as ever when you catch that joy on the wing: seeing a little girl standing in a shopping trolley singing a nonsense song or a chortling urchin toepoking a football past the toppling figure of his father in the park.

‘You’re not going to tell me you’re still toepoking at your age,’ his uncle said. ‘See what happens if you don’t kick properly? Look here till I show you.’

Clinging on to said defender, viduka, slightly off balance, only manages to tickle the ball with his toecaps, merely toepoking it to the opposition.

Morrison ran on to a through ball, toepoked it towards the goal, Sorensen went to ground too early and the ball bounced slowly over his chest and nestled in the goal.

did he( Ronaldinhio) toepoke that goal or what?

Toepokes are useful in an emergency, particularly when it is impossible to get close to the ball.

viduka's toepoke was matched in the second half, but again was wide.

I think the ball bounced over his hand, he was in line with the ball but the toepoke bounced higher than he expected.