Atherstone ball game.....wtf


Sedgefield ball game locally, these things are done all over the country it seems though and go back a long long time
 
The predecessor to football before the toffs moved in and made it more civil. We then used their rules and took the game back to the working class. You could argue now that its no longer a working mans game with how much a day at the match sets you back!
 
Put them within half a mile of a ground on match day doing that and there would be many a six o’clock knock on the door within a few weeks.
 
I've seen footage of the Sedgefield one.

There was a one mentioned on the radio a month or two back in think in Scotland. I think they said it was between the uppies and the downies and could go on for more than a day?

These things look like they're for absolute wrang uns.
 
I've seen footage of the Sedgefield one.

There was a one mentioned on the radio a month or two back in think in Scotland. I think they said it was between the uppies and the downies and could go on for more than a day?

These things look like they're for absolute wrang uns.

That’s in Jedburgh. ‘Hand baw’ it’s called.

Rumoured to be kicking an Englishman’s head back and forth years ago!
 

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