Shrovetide Football

A short intro sequence from a documentary about Shrovetide Mass Football

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Shrovetide
• Mass
• Street
• Mob
• Football
• Ashbourne

[TwoCows23]

God. American football sucks compared to this.

Then again, it sucks compared to a lot of things.

[Masterecords]

this is quite possibly the best game in the world!

[tomko911]

Take videos like this off, people come and play and don't know what to do, you have to be raised in Ashbourne to do this!

[TheJOEDAVEY]

the rules are no muder no taking it in a motor car, and your not allowed in the church yard

i shoud know, i live in ashbourne

[hitcharide1]

And this is why the rest of the world sucks. Any ppl stubborn enough and independent enough to throw out every fucking rule save one and keep it going until it's done can't be beaten. Period.

[Bioniclefan45]

@wotsup9oo It lasts from 2 pm to 10 pm on two consecutive days. The teams are pretty much every single man, woman and child in the town divided in between Up'ards and Down'ards (people born north and south of the river respectively). The "pitch" is the entire town and the goals are the sites of old mills that are three miles apart. A goal is scored by banging the ball against a post three times.

[wotsup9oo]

Whats the goal of the game? Someone tell me! How long is the game?

[UnShavenM0nkey]

@dgmoorejr We are English, small town of 7k people the vast majority of people live and breathe shrovetide, thus u know the players since you are tiny. simple really

[roetemeteor]

Before I die, I will play this game.

[Ramoa111]

zombie football

[dgmoorejr]

I am with macho? How do you know who's who. No one is wearing the same colors, shirts that say up'ards and down'ards. I guess it's just an american thing. I mean the only comparison here would be like in the racially divided days of old when whites lived on one side of the "tracks" and blacks on the other. But in this case, I don't see how you could tell. Is there that big of a difference in up'ards and down'ards?