1988, Glenn Patterson, Burning Your Own, ISBN 9780749398910, Minerva (1993), page 105:‘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.’
2002 April 2, "Darren Dootsen" (username), "Does this ound familiar?", in uk.sport.football.clubs.leeds-united
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Clinging on to said defender, Mark Viduka, slightly off balance, only manages to tickle the ball with his toecaps, merely toepoking it to the opposition.
2004, Ferdinand Mount, Mind the Gap: The New Class Divide in Britain, Short Books, ISBN 9781904095941, page 250: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.
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.
2005 March 9, "arby" (username), "Re: chelsea v barca", in uk.sport.football.clubs.newcastle-united
1979, Ken Jones, How to Play Soccer, Chartwell Books, ISBN 9780890091906, page 13:Toepokes are useful in an emergency, particularly when it is impossible to get close to the ball.
1997 October 3, "David Arnold" (username), "- Australia [R]", in rec.sport.soccer
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Mark Viduka's toepoke was matched in the second half, but again was wide.
