A historic football game played since the 1100s has returned to the north of England this Shrove Tuesday. The Royal ...

In the 826-year-old Atherstone Ball Game, there are two rules, locals say: Keep the big leather ball on the main street, and don’t kill anyone.

Residents of an English town gathered on Tuesday (March 4) to play a traditional soccer game with a twist – there are ...

Chantelle Chetwynd will begin the annual Atherstone Ball Game on Tuesday and hundreds of people will then grapple in the ...

Shrovetide football is an ancient, rough and chaotic ball game played on Shrove Tuesday, involving two rival teams of local ...

The event, in Alnwick, Northumberland, dates back to at least 1762, and is played on the fields by the River Aln, following a ...

An ancient football game in Derbyshire has finished with a victory to the Down'Ards. Thousands of players turned out again ...

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One of the earliest rules was 'no murder' - and one of the most recent is 'the ball must not be carried in a motorised ...