1920's
Ashbourne Shrove-tide Foot-ball
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Unlike a conventional football match, Shrovetide Football is much longer than a regular football match and is played over two eight-hour periods. The goals are three miles apart and there are very few rules. The ball is rarely kicked but instead moves through a giant 'hug'. There is no set pitch: the game is played throughout the entire town, so shops and businesses board up their windows in preparation. The game has been played almost every year since at least 1667, although its exact origins are unknown because records were destroyed in a fire. Ashbourne Royal Shrovetide Football got its royal title after Edward VIII, who was then Prince of Wales, opened the game in 1928.
Ashbourne Shrove-tide Foot-ball
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