Forfeit wheel

What makes a good forfeit

• Quick. If it takes longer than a minute, nobody enforces it.
• Public. The point is the audience, not the punishment.
• Harmless. Daft beats nasty, every time.
• Something you would happily do yourself if the wheel picked you.
• Optional to a point. Nobody should feel cornered by a game.

Where a forfeit wheel earns its keep

Training, mostly. Losing side spins, and suddenly the last five minutes of a small sided game matters a lot more than it did. It works just as well for the end of a session, where the wheel decides who is putting the cones away instead of the coach having to nominate someone.

Away from the pitch it turns up on nights out, presentation evenings and preseason. Anywhere there is a loser and a bit of an audience, the wheel has a job.

Write your own in

The default list is a starting point, not the rules. Every squad has its own running jokes, and a forfeit that means nothing to outsiders is usually the funniest one in the room. Clear the box, paste your own list in, and it saves itself for next time.

One piece of advice from watching plenty of these: keep one soft option on the wheel. A get out clause makes the harsh ones land better, because everyone can see there was a chance of escaping.

Keep the good ones

Forfeits are more fun when there is a record of them. That is why Fine Club keeps the lot: a rulebook of your club's own crimes and prices, a feed the whole squad can rip into, and a leaderboard nobody wants to top by the end of the season.