Hundreds turned out for a mad Shrovetide football game in Northumberland, which ended with players jumping into the River Aln ...
The Royal Shrovetide Football Match is played every Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday in Ashbourne, Derbyshire – and has been ...
Shrovetide Football match, known locally as Scoring the Hales, took place in the fields surrounding Alnwick Castle between ...
One of the earliest rules was 'no murder' - and one of the most recent is 'the ball must not be carried in a motorised ...
An ancient football game in Derbyshire has finished with a victory to the Down'Ards. Thousands of players turned out again ...
The game starts at 14:00 GMT each Shrove Tuesday, when a ball is launched by someone known as a “turner up” from a ...
The small Derbyshire town of Ashbourne is home to the ancient sport of Shrovetide Football, where hundreds of players take to ...
See 11 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.
Hundreds turned out for a mad Shrovetide football game in Northumberland ... rules and no referee was held for the 207th time on Shrove Tuesday, March 4. It starts when the Duke of Northumberland ...
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.
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