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| Author: | Ungotz [ Tue Feb 13, 2018 10:48 am ] |
| Post subject: | Royal Shrovetide Football - Wild in the Streets |
The origins of modern football, soccer, rugby............. Check out the live streaming....it is a crazy event in England https://www.facebook.com/derbytelegraph ... o_explicit Wikipedia: The Royal Shrovetide Football Match is a "Medieval football" game played annually on Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday in the town of Ashbourne in Derbyshire, England. Shrovetide ball games have been played in England since at least the 12th century from the reign of Henry II (1154–89). The Ashbourne game also known as "hugball" has been played from at least c.1667 although the exact origins of the game are unknown due to a fire at the Royal Shrovetide Committee office in the 1890s which destroyed the earliest records.[1][2][3][4] One of the most popular origin theories suggests the macabre notion that the 'ball' was originally a severed head tossed into the waiting crowd following an execution.[5] Although this may have happened, it is more likely that games such as the Winchelsea Streete Game, reputedly played during the Hundred Years' War with France, were adaptations of an original ball game intended to show contempt for the enemy.[6] |
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| Author: | sinicalypse [ Tue Feb 13, 2018 11:23 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Royal Shrovetide Football - Wild in the Streets |
are they gonna race the cheese down the hill after this? |
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| Author: | good dolphin [ Tue Feb 13, 2018 12:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Royal Shrovetide Football - Wild in the Streets |
Shrove Tide! |
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