Ashbournes Royal Shrovetide Football - the world's biggest football match.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- The annual Royal Shrovetide football game is said to be the world's oldest, largest, longest, and angriest football game.
Last year the game was cancelled owing to the Covid pandemic and organisers asked this year’s participants to take a coronavirus test before play.
The game is played between the Up'ards, those born north of the River Henmore that divides the town, and the Down'ards, those born south of the river.
The game is played with a hand-painted, cork-filled ball.
The pitch is a no man’s land between two watermills, Sturston Mill and Clifton Mill, which serve as the goals at either end of the town about three miles apart.
Any number may play in this very thinly refereed game, providing they can claim to be Up'ards or Down'ard's.
The game can last for up many and rarely is there a goal scored. Although this year a goal was scored in daylight which is very rare. Most games end in a nil-nil scoreline, hardly surprising considering the size of the pitch and the number of players involved.
Not many things have interrupted the Shrovetide game since 1891 and it even continued through two world wars. Foot-and-mouth disease canceled the games in 1968 and 2002. So, after a two-year gap due to Covid participants and crowds being larger than normal.
The game has little to do with the beautiful game, as we know it. It has few rules - murder and manslaughter are barred though.
It is a moving brawl that continues through the roads of the town, across fields, and even along the bed of the local river. To those playing, trying to see where the ball is can be a challenge.
The ball was ‘turned up’ meaning thrown in at 2pm. Most of the action was around the narrow streets of Ashbourne. The boisterous play disturbs local traffic and local traders. Shopkeepers in preparation for the two-day match often board up their shop windows for protection.
The majority of the play is a series of rugby-type scrimmages known as "Hugs". Very occasionally the ball does break free, and onlookers who number in their hundreds can finally see some action. If and when a goal is scored, the scorer is allowed to keep the ball and drink as much ale as they can consume.
The Up’Ards scored first on the first day with a goal James Lyon. He ‘goaled” the ball at Sturston Mill at 5:32 pm, some 3 and half hours after the ball was thrown in.
As a goal was scored before 6 PM, the game was resumed and the down’ards scored an equaliser at around 9.30 pm from Nathan Harrison, to conclude day 1 of the event.
These are the rushes from the day.
Attended this event in 2017,was a good day out and great to see that this tradition keeps going.
Hello, how does a winner emerge. Like who wins? Oh my God!is it individuals or team work?
@@simisolasaliu72 there a hundreds and hundreds of people on each team.I believe they have to tap the ball 3 times on a millstone to score.
Britain is proper mental. Love it.
It's great to see ashbourne and atherstone ball game taking place again this year after all the shit we have had the last 2 years, my brother Rob Bernard runs the atherstone ball game and it no easy task to keep this game going but we all need to keep shrovetid up and running forever..
I'm torn. Pretty silly if you ask me, considering the pandemic has virtually just started. But then, great to see them enjoy themselves.
I'm still trying to learn the sport. I have questions. Like: are there teams, is there a scoring system. Or is this basically considered like the running of bulls where it's been a pastime for 100s of years that there are people wanting to keep the tradition alive even if there are no actual rules or scoring to the game. I read a quote from a proper geezer "rather break my leg again than to lose". That's the type of passion that keeps me interested in sports.
Just release the ball mate.
@@TheTSRushI'm curious too, but I see no one's answered your questions
I'd love to see drone footage of this event.
Just thought of bringing out the drone and also getting some camera angles from the windows, ground level...etc.
its nuts mate
Mad how this is only up the road from me and I only heard about it a few years back
Rest in peace Mitch ❤
New sub glad to find your channel
Whats the rules? You have to punch whoever has the ball and then throw it?
In a nut shell, yes.
4:38 HOW DARE YOU CROSS THE STREAM
Been once its mad!
is there a way to distinguish between and up’ard and a down’ard? like do they wear a certain colour?
Not really - I think most of the locals know who on which side... I think.
I think its along the lines of if somebodys pushing in the he opposite direction or punching you in rhe face hes probably on rhe other team🤔
So it’s actually back. Finally 👍
Uppards again 😢 lets go Downards 💪🏽
Any score?
Ye 3-1
@@oliverfernihough7825 to who?
@@bakeurpotatoe5157 Up'ards win 3-1 Day 1: 1st James Lyon (U) 2nd Nathan Harrison (D) Day 2: 3rd Mark Maznenko (U) 4th Ben Western (U)[54]
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Na Klasse.Ihr habt Spass und wir schauen durchs Ofenrohr ins Gebirge.Wir haben bestimmt 500 Gesetze, Regeln und Vorschriften die sowas unmöglich machen.Darf man als nicht Einheimischer da auch mit machen ? Quasi als Ausstauschspieler oder so.
Yes they can - put it in your diary for next year.
Visited there once .. getting an Irish team together .. Which team?
Uppard's
If this is held in USA, 15minutes after the game start, people will be breaking and robbing the shops.
I learnt they don’t have shops there 😜
you can only do any game like this with a town of people who have been living together for hundreds of years.
This is nothing compared to the Atherstone Ball Game
Shrovetide way better
Bruh I live here
WORLD PVP!!!!!!
Mark Ingram from the New Orleans Saints brung me here ⚜️
4:32 HOW DARE YOU CROSS THE STREAM