Shrovetide

[Nick Lukey]

Over the Tuesday and Wednesday Ashbourne celebrate shrovetide with the annual Upards and downards Game.

The game last for 8 hours a day, and is played thoroughout the streets and fileds and housing estates of Ashbourne, no rules but no murder allowed. Its just mad a heaving crowd of Asbournes finest, doing combat.
A great spectacle.

 

[Dave Green]

Quite clearly bonkers!

But well covered

 

[Nick Lukey]

Quite clearly bonkers!

But well covered

Tbh Dave I just went to test out the focus capabilities of the new Xt1. The main thing was you didn't quite know what was going on or where a breakaway would happen, imagine a scrum of 100 blokes that will give you an idea of how mad they are.

 

[Brian Moore]

Excellent! Shrovetide Football still lives. Wait,...I thought the objective was to propell the skull of a Roman or a Viking (sorry @Ivar D. Larsen) through the streets,...or was that just circa 900 A.D.?

Amazing images, Nick. I'd love to be there someday to experience the madness. (Viewing from a safe location, of course.)

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Was there any beer involved?

 

[Nick Lukey]

Was there any beer involved?

Lots of it, in fact you can't play if your not trollied

Actually quite worrying when it breaks if your in the way you get flattened.

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

Excellent! Shrovetide Football still lives. Wait,...I thought the objective was to propell the skull of a Roman or a Viking (sorry @Ivar D. Larsen) through the streets,...or was that just circa 900 A.D.?

Amazing images, Nick. I'd love to be there someday to experience the madness. (Viewing from a safe location, of course.)

Let me be as frank as to say, that all the misbehaving Vikings came from Sweden!!!

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

There was obviously a ball involved, and as we say here in Scandinavia, Swedish side; "he had many balls in the air."