Julius caesar said "the tribes of the British Isles are happy enough to fight with each other, but if you start on one tribe. They will all turn on you as one."
When you look at it that way it's a question that should be pondered. Nice one. I think perhaps we thought about over a cuppa & decided that we just couldn't be arsed. Perhaps we didn't want other countries thinking we were being greedy? I know we must of being worried about how France thought of us. LOL! Bloody cheese eating surrender monkeys. Ha! Peace out.
The reason it staying in same street is because it limits property damage to that street but more importantly, it kept ending up in the canal which ruined the game.
The winning team was trying to trap the ball down in the doorway so by the end of the game if the other couldn't move it from the door and get it back possession and try and score they lose
The Atherstone Ball Game is a "Medieval football" game played annually on Shrove Tuesday in the English town of Atherstone, Warwickshire. The game honours a match played between Leicestershire and Warwickshire in 1199, when teams used a bag of gold as a ball, and which was won by Warwickshire. From Wikipedia
People can get a bit over zealous during the game.. Lol.. the police just stood back and watching.. Its all shits and giggles at the end of the day.. If anything,, we are always up for a laugh.. You definitely have to look at the "SHIN KICKING" though..
The Atherstone Ball Game is a "Medieval football" game played annually on Shrove Tuesday in the English town of Atherstone, Warwickshire. The game honours a match played between Leicestershire and Warwickshire in 1199, when teams used a bag of gold as a ball, and which was won by Warwickshire.
I can remember years ago reading in history books about games like this where two whole towns would take each other on playing medieval Football. I didn't know they were still played until watching this. Looking it up the first game at Atherstone started in the year 1199. If my maths are correct counting on my fingers will be 822 years ago this year (2021). Attempts in the past to stop them was by using the Highways Act of 1835. 1901 the Police attempted to get this one banned and the Parish Council over ruled the ban. The game now restricted to Long Street. Regarding violence organisers took that on board accepting although it can be a rough game, but making it clear that anyone involved threaten the future of the game. Early 2020 one of the Stewards was sadly taken ill and passed away after a heart attack. A fund was established to provide financial help for his family. Coverage of the game was first broadcast on radio in 1934, and shown on TV in 1958.
A variant of football called campball was played in East Anglia. Fatalities were fairly common and it was banned. Near Swaffham in Norfolk is camp ball field, where the game was played.
It can be traced back to the 1100s but this is when records began Could be a lot older Teh origins of it is that the super wealthy used to chip money in to a huge prize pot for the winner just for their own amusement The pot got reportedly that big people where frequently killed and in the mid 1800 they added the second rule NO KILLING
This happens about twenty minutes from where I live.The object is simple, try to keep possession of the ball by any means necessary (short of actual weapons, but apart from that anything goes). After two hours, whoever is in possession of the ball wins. The winner gets to keep that year's ball. If you want to take part, all you have to do is turn up and join in.
I have played this game by accident after I was meeting a friend in the town and didn't know this traditional was a thing. Ive never been ran over by so many people with nowhere to go before
Another English sporting invention was "Kicking the Dane's head". After King Harold's victory against the Vikings in 1066, the army kicked a Dane's severed head on the 200 mile journey back south.
@@Dom-fx4kt " Right lads , quick March back down south now to get William the bathplug before he gets to Hastings " ! " time and a third pay lads " ? " OOH ! , All right, time and a half , but no tea - breaks : )
@@jauntyangle5667 That's not true. The king of Norway, Harold Hadrada invaded in 1066, not the Danes. Back then there was Norway, and there was Denmark too.
The history of it all and games like it were a bunch of rich people were sat around bored wondering what to do and one rich person suggested "Let's fill a ball with gold and let the peasants fight over it" a few hundred years later and here you are.
Not really. The king at the time was trying to escape them and threw a bag of gold for them to fight over instead during a revolt or something like that and they commemorated it every year. There is something in a different town though that more accurately describes what you’re talking about where the mayor and aristocracy throws hot pennies at the public.
This is just one of several English medieval games still being played today. They are also known as Royal Football because of the traditional involvement of Royalty. Prince Charles was the last Royal who started one of these games. All that’s changed since the medieval period is that the rules no longer allow murder. This is real English culture, there is so more to Englishness than Shakespeare and Tea.
The original medieval football game honoured by the annual event was held in Atherstone in 1199, during which teams from Warwickshire and Leicestershire competed, using a bag of gold as a football. This original "Match of Gold", as it became known, was won by Warwickshire. The Ball Game was once one of many such games held in towns throughout England, but is presently one of three that continue to be held over Shrovetide,
See Americans should take note, you don’t need guns a knives just get a big football 😂 I’m joking Keep up the good work, always excited to see a notification from you !!
@@sjreeper Nar it's got to be The East India Company Tea. Expensive I know but your paying for good quality Tea. They have historically had a monopoly on trade in the subcontinent though. But, Hay, We didn't kick The French out, fight & win two wars with China & make them cede Hong Kong so we can freely export one of the most destructive & addictive drugs know to man, (Opium) in to China so we can all enjoy, cheaper good quality Tea from the people who invented the idea of Tea. Ah, YES Those were the days, when what the left says now'er days about Private Company's, (Private Company's can just do what they want, Bro) never did ring quite true as then. Ah, YES, The British Empire, The Biggest Drug Cartel Their Ever Was, Fighting Two Wars, To Freely Sell Drugs To Get More Drugs Cheaper. (Opium for Tea) 😅😏😜🤣🤣 YES, Tea IS A Drug, Because it dose have caffeine in it, Small amounts mind you, Nonetheless it still has caffeine in it, For those of you who will try and dispute the fact that Tea is a Drug. Not that theirs any thing wrong with Tea, It's still A Fucking fantastic Drink, Definitely neck & neck with Real Ale, Maybe above it depending on what day & when the time is Right. Still A Fucking fantastic Drink Nonetheless.
Ground and pound EB, like portland but with a ball! We are nuts in the UK, all that fighting all those stores and no looting 😮 great vid buddy👍🇺🇸👍🇬🇧✌️✌️🍻🍻
I live 10 miles from Atherstone. I take my grandchildren to the swimming pool right by the Road they do this on.. They are perfectly nice people the other 364 days of the year.
@@joekind5099 well I was born and raised in some of the least friendly parts of Brum which generally means that most other places, including Atherstone, appear perfectly lovely. Fortunately I managed to escape from Brum many years ago😂😂
Also this is a medieval tradition dating back to the 1200s, where the entire town would get together to play the original game of football, which was just like this, the goals were 3 miles apart and there were no rules except don’t kill anyone. It takes place in a medium sized town in the southern part of the north of England. It is essentially a purge lasting for 2 days, every year people get killed by the stampede for the ball. A bit of information on the north of England. The north of England is the English equivalent of the US south. They all have funny accents, which no one can understand. Also when you hear people talk about England you often hear them talk about beer, drinking, pubs etc. And you might have thought that is the last thing I associate with the uk. Well that’s because it’s more to do with the north. The northerners are the most rowdy of all of us, as seen here. All the shops in the town are boarded up, as you can see. And the entire town moves their cars to the next village, because nobody cares about property. The way the game works is there are two teams. The up’ards and the down’ards. The team you are on depends on where in the town you were born. If you were born north of the river, you play for the up’ards, south of the river, the down”ards. There are no rules as i mentioned earlier. You might think, sure,y this is illegal. Ordinarily it would be, but because it has become such a big part of that areas culture, the government were like, y’a know what? Fuck it. But you participate at your own risk. If you get injured you are solely responsible. People go nits about it. And they go wherever the ball goes, if someone throws it own into the lake, they jump in the lake to swim to it. If there are three inches of snow on the ground, they carry on regardless. The game is nuts. And it takes place over a two day period. Funnily enough all shops and hotels etc. Are shut except the pub.
Well put kidda, we have one, all be it smaller version, the sedgefield ball game, but "goals" are used, only one score, 1-0. Lads from out lying villages take part, it's medieval too, County Durham.
Yup we're a tough lot ! most of your American heroes came from these shores, Davey Crockett Jim Bowie Daniel Boone Sam Houston Lewis and Clarke there's to many to mention, tough men who laid the foundations of the USA. Their ancestors were mostly British. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
John paul jones commanded the land invasion on British soil during the American war of independence, yes an American hero but also a British traitor, he invaded the port of whitehaven, the second most active port at the in the uk, by the way Durham is a beautiful county, all the best
Durham Lad here, it's the LAND OF THE PRINCE BISHOPS, and steeped in Danelaw culture, Vikings. We have a smaller version at sedgefield, bout 4 miles from me. Chilton.
Normal to me as I lived in atherstone all my life, as a kid I thought everybody had them, turns out only we do it properly and a a few do it differently and not as violent 👍
Used to live in Coventry but worked in Atherstone at an office on the main road there - despite all shops being boarded up on that day each year, there was always still quite a bit of damage.. [it was a long time ago I worked there - I've lived in Turkey for 16 years]
A wonderful English tradition in rural towns. Historically just before 40 days of fasting, Atherstone would have a football game where under the guise of 'sport' you and your friends could go and have an organised fight with people from your own town and other local villages lol Oh, it will give you a lovely insight into the kind of people you have to deal with on a face to face level, when you end up working away for a couple of weeks in these places!
The ball used to have gold in it and whichever person or team had the ball at the end kept the gold. Sure it’s something like that The game goes way back
They removed the gold because it hampered the mobility of the ball. Now its lighter and the game is more fun. They also restricted the field to the high street because the ball kept ending up in the canal when they allowed it to go anywhere.
My home town, attended every year till moving away. There are no goals but the ball is just kicked up and down long street until near end of time, then groups move in and try to keep the ball. The winning 'team' would take the ball around the town collecting for charity.
After watching these videos you get some idea of how we conquered half the world ...... nobody loves a fight like the English, apart from the Scots and Irish obviously 😜
The original medieval football game held in 1199 was played with a big bag of gold. Kind of explains the ferocity of the game. The side holding the ball when the klaxon sounds at 5pm is the winner. They were guarding the ball in a doorway to keep it in their hands.
This is more like the way football used to be played back in medieval times by competing villages. Often it was banned because it was too violent. Nice to see the Health and Safety guys and the police relaxing at the side.
There are so many things for you to try when this pandemic is over and you are able to travel to the UK. Will you play in this ball game before or after you try cheese rolling? ;)
They play this in Ashbourne, Derbyshire. We call it shrovetide football. Prince Charles one year started the game off. Ah I just seen you have Ashbourne on your channel. Great stuff dude!
I live in Atherstone, the games over 800 years old, it tends to be different towns against each other, the idea being to be the person who has the ball in his hands when the horn goes. The game is policed by locals, with the actual police there just in case. The atmosphere when you are there is amazing. The game lasts about 4 hours with the kids and younger people allowed to join in before the big boys get going later on.
If I recall in that years "match" the lads in the dorway had formed a team and were defending the ball. As the "winners" are whomever holds the ball at the end when the whistle goes. Allegedly it was started hundreds of years back by bored nobles who stitched some gold into a football and tossed it into a crowd for a laugh. Modernly there is no gold or other cash just the ball and bragging rights. (also contusions, concussions, missing teeth etc) I would include missing marbles but Im sure no one in that melee had any to start with
You wouldn't believe that a nation of warriors like these could be felled by a bug, and not a very strong bug at that . Keep safe over there pal. Best regards .
Has very les to do with, a not very strong bug. And much more to do with the Government being Thoroughly spooked and even petrified at a not very strong bug. YAY Government Tyranny. 😑😒🙁😟😞😤 Stay Safe Mate, Only Thing You Can Do Now'er Days.
@MrMadManc really? Bullshit. It’s funny that I actually work in hospitals all over the country. And actually see it first hand. Yet you, some idiot on RUclips seems to think he knows more. So empty hospitals? Have you seen pictures online have you? Because I assure you , many hospitals are in the high 90s percentage in occupancy. You are completely making shit up, I see it daily.
Julius caesar said "the tribes of the British Isles are happy enough to fight with each other, but if you start on one tribe. They will all turn on you as one."
These are the people who, for centuries, were the soldiers in the British army. I'm surprised the empire was so small.
the empire ruled over 70% of the landmass of earth.......
When you look at it that way it's a question that should be pondered. Nice one. I think perhaps we thought about over a cuppa & decided that we just couldn't be arsed. Perhaps we didn't want other countries thinking we were being greedy? I know we must of being worried about how France thought of us. LOL! Bloody cheese eating surrender monkeys. Ha! Peace out.
You may have guns but we have the right to beat each other over a ball... British freedom goals!
Sounds about right
Yer tell me any state other than maybe Texas would allow this lol 🤣
Exactly 💯, we have goals not dreams.
@@madyottoyotto3055 texas too gun happy. Maybe cali, drop a bag of weed out the window and the winner keeps it
2 main rules:
The game must stay in the same street.
You can't kill somebody.
That's it, seriously.
Seems straight forward enough.
The reason it staying in same street is because it limits property damage to that street but more importantly, it kept ending up in the canal which ruined the game.
@@TheEclecticBeard scary thing is 400 years or more because it was before records before they added the no killing rule
Welcome to the UK PURGE
@@headshot6959 we can only prove it goes back to 1100s but that was when records began could be lots older
I've seen a tube video that explains the history
I present to you - the English.
The 40k Orks of the modern world.
Yeah but at least no bulls where harmed in our whatever you call it.. Just a bunch of bellends XD
820 years of history....only rule is no killing...just don't fuck with the English
@@timmystwin The Orks were heavily based off English Football Hooligans so you're pretty much spot on
1 single town in the whole country "The english'
for all the American viewers .... that s not the British version of Mr. T at 2:40 , it is the towns Mayor wearing his offical chain of office.
Is that also former Aston Villa and Darlington FC manager Brian Little to the left?
@@clarkeysam yes
The winning team was trying to trap the ball down in the doorway so by the end of the game if the other couldn't move it from the door and get it back possession and try and score they lose
The Atherstone Ball Game is a "Medieval football" game played annually on Shrove Tuesday in the English town of Atherstone, Warwickshire. The game honours a match played between Leicestershire and Warwickshire in 1199, when teams used a bag of gold as a ball, and which was won by Warwickshire. From Wikipedia
Looks like someone went over to Wikipedia lol
@@Pete_R yes I should have referenced that sorry
@@Pete_R rectified
Nice! i'm on merseyside but never even knew this existed! fascinating stuff, thanks for the history behind it, it looks MAD! haha
I got my nose broken there in 2008
Happy Days?
I Can Only Assume So.
1996 for my broken nose lol
People can get a bit over zealous during the game.. Lol.. the police just stood back and watching.. Its all shits and giggles at the end of the day.. If anything,, we are always up for a laugh.. You definitely have to look at the "SHIN KICKING" though..
Man, we went through a faze of shin kicking when drunk back in the day. Fuck that game!
The Atherstone Ball Game is a "Medieval football" game played annually on Shrove Tuesday in the English town of Atherstone, Warwickshire. The game honours a match played between Leicestershire and Warwickshire in 1199, when teams used a bag of gold as a ball, and which was won by Warwickshire.
The police were there just in case it turned violent.
Love it
Class
Lmaof
😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
Told you us Brit`s love a good rumble 😜👍
Your reaction was priceless. Just remember when it's All done and over everyone is off to the local boozer 😉🍻🍻🍺
There will be loads of fights later on I can assure you lol.
A nation of tea drinking gentlemen who took over the world with.... charm
I've never been so happy to share a video link in the comments, I've been waiting days for this
I can remember years ago reading in history books about games like this where two whole towns would take each other on playing medieval Football. I didn't know they were still played until watching this. Looking it up the first game at Atherstone started in the year 1199. If my maths are correct counting on my fingers will be 822 years ago this year (2021). Attempts in the past to stop them was by using the Highways Act of 1835. 1901 the Police attempted to get this one banned and the Parish Council over ruled the ban. The game now restricted to Long Street. Regarding violence organisers took that on board accepting although it can be a rough game, but making it clear that anyone involved threaten the future of the game. Early 2020 one of the Stewards was sadly taken ill and passed away after a heart attack. A fund was established to provide financial help for his family. Coverage of the game was first broadcast on radio in 1934, and shown on TV in 1958.
Very interesting good reasearch
Nice drop of information there !!! Nice !!!
A variant of football called campball was played in East Anglia. Fatalities were fairly common and it was banned. Near Swaffham in Norfolk is camp ball field, where the game was played.
They are rlly careful around the kids but it's at the end when it gets rough
It can be traced back to the 1100s but this is when records began
Could be a lot older
Teh origins of it is that the super wealthy used to chip money in to a huge prize pot for the winner just for their own amusement
The pot got reportedly that big people where frequently killed and in the mid 1800 they added the second rule
NO KILLING
Remember england, Britain the islands itself has had 1000s of years of history. You will find some weird and wonderful things
This happens about twenty minutes from where I live.The object is simple, try to keep possession of the ball by any means necessary (short of actual weapons, but apart from that anything goes). After two hours, whoever is in possession of the ball wins. The winner gets to keep that year's ball. If you want to take part, all you have to do is turn up and join in.
I believe they added a rule to say that motor vehicles are also not allowed.
I live 20mins away as well :)
It’s not even a very good ball, let’s face it😂😂😂😂😂
I have played this game by accident after I was meeting a friend in the town and didn't know this traditional was a thing. Ive never been ran over by so many people with nowhere to go before
What a perfect way to get rid anger
Everyone knows what to expect... game over big cheer NO ARRESTS go to pub for a beer 👍
Never seen or heard of this event and I live in England. Looks lethal
Another English sporting invention was "Kicking the Dane's head". After King Harold's victory against the Vikings in 1066, the army kicked a Dane's severed head on the 200 mile journey back south.
That can chip a tooth aye : )
Didn't Harold defeat the Norwegians at Stamford bridge in 1066 though?
@@Dom-fx4kt " Right lads , quick March back down south now to get William the bathplug before he gets to Hastings " !
" time and a third pay lads " ?
" OOH ! , All right, time and a half , but no tea - breaks : )
@@Dom-fx4kt The Vikings were all called Danes the time. Norway wasn't a thing yet.
@@jauntyangle5667 That's not true. The king of Norway, Harold Hadrada invaded in 1066, not the Danes. Back then there was Norway, and there was Denmark too.
The history of it all and games like it were a bunch of rich people were sat around bored wondering what to do and one rich person suggested "Let's fill a ball with gold and let the peasants fight over it" a few hundred years later and here you are.
Not really. The king at the time was trying to escape them and threw a bag of gold for them to fight over instead during a revolt or something like that and they commemorated it every year.
There is something in a different town though that more accurately describes what you’re talking about where the mayor and aristocracy throws hot pennies at the public.
My home town. Great event , up the high street with the shops all boarded up. R elic of medieval football , more of a massive scrum.
This is just one of several English medieval games still being played today. They are also known as Royal Football because of the traditional involvement of Royalty. Prince Charles was the last Royal who started one of these games. All that’s changed since the medieval period is that the rules no longer allow murder. This is real English culture, there is so more to Englishness than Shakespeare and Tea.
Stu from the UK. Love the reaction vids. Especially the UK sports keep it up chief. And yes cheese rolling is the best spector weirdness to watch live
What sort of people did you think conquered the world?
Well said 🏴
Few words say it all
🤣😂🤣🧐🤓l always thought it was the last two of those images.
gotta practice at home first!
🤮
The original medieval football game honoured by the annual event was held in Atherstone in 1199, during which teams from Warwickshire and Leicestershire competed, using a bag of gold as a football. This original "Match of Gold", as it became known, was won by Warwickshire. The Ball Game was once one of many such games held in towns throughout England, but is presently one of three that continue to be held over Shrovetide,
See Americans should take note, you don’t need guns a knives just get a big football 😂 I’m joking
Keep up the good work, always excited to see a notification from you !!
It's part of the British DNA, island race, empire building, fighting is in our blood.
2 rules...
Rule 1: team that is holding on to the ball at the end of the time wins
Rule 2: don't murder anyone ....
The English version of the purge. Lots of frustration taken out once a year.
British people are a nation off warrior's it's in the blood
It's in the tea
Got to be Yorkshire tea tho 👌
@@sjreeper Nar it's got to be The East India Company Tea.
Expensive I know but your paying for good quality Tea.
They have historically had a monopoly on trade in the subcontinent though.
But,
Hay,
We didn't kick The French out, fight & win two wars with China & make them cede Hong Kong so we can freely export one of the most destructive & addictive drugs know to man, (Opium) in to China so we can all enjoy, cheaper good quality Tea from the people who invented the idea of Tea.
Ah, YES Those were the days, when what the left says now'er days about Private Company's, (Private Company's can just do what they want, Bro) never did ring quite true as then.
Ah, YES, The British Empire, The Biggest Drug Cartel Their Ever Was, Fighting Two Wars, To Freely Sell Drugs To Get More Drugs Cheaper. (Opium for Tea)
😅😏😜🤣🤣
YES,
Tea IS A Drug,
Because it dose have caffeine in it,
Small amounts mind you,
Nonetheless it still has caffeine in it,
For those of you who will try and dispute the fact that Tea is a Drug.
Not that theirs any thing wrong with Tea,
It's still A Fucking fantastic Drink,
Definitely neck & neck with Real Ale,
Maybe above it depending on what day & when the time is Right.
Still A Fucking fantastic Drink Nonetheless.
foundation of Britain 1603 - I don’t care what’s in it. I’m still going to have 5 a day.
@@sjreeper fuck that piss ,net ball players drink Yorkshire tea ,PG is where it's at !!!
Love your channel, our crazy country 😜 certainly funny
Hey, I just wanted to say I love the content. I would also recommend reacting to some Monty python sketches, like Bigus Dickus.
There is a great twist on this type of mass ball game and the origins of football in Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel, 'Unseen Academicals'.
"Moshpit without any music"
best way to describe this lol
We are a tough people, think twice before going to war against the UK.
Atherstone is a former mining community. There are some very big and strong men there settling scores that go back for many years!
Brilliant 😂 Great reaction mate
Ground and pound EB, like portland but with a ball! We are nuts in the UK, all that fighting all those stores and no looting 😮 great vid buddy👍🇺🇸👍🇬🇧✌️✌️🍻🍻
Guys in the building at the end were a team they pinned the Ball Against the Wall and we're stopping others getting in by creating a choke point
I live 10 miles from Atherstone. I take my grandchildren to the swimming pool right by the Road they do this on.. They are perfectly nice people the other 364 days of the year.
I take it you have never had a night out there?
Bold of you to assume we’re still nice the rest of the year 😂
@@joekind5099 well I was born and raised in some of the least friendly parts of Brum which generally means that most other places, including Atherstone, appear perfectly lovely. Fortunately I managed to escape from Brum many years ago😂😂
Yeah I guess that’s ok then, it’s alright here sometimes too 😂
@@joekind5099 We're in Tamworth. The Town Centre gets a bit of trouble late night at weekends but I've never felt unsafe. 😊
It's only found in this small town and is a very old tradition, generally all in good sport but some people get a bit over excited should we say 😂🇬🇧❤️
What can I say where all psycho and enjoy a good brawl hahaha
The police didn't want none of the action😂
Also this is a medieval tradition dating back to the 1200s, where the entire town would get together to play the original game of football, which was just like this, the goals were 3 miles apart and there were no rules except don’t kill anyone. It takes place in a medium sized town in the southern part of the north of England. It is essentially a purge lasting for 2 days, every year people get killed by the stampede for the ball. A bit of information on the north of England. The north of England is the English equivalent of the US south. They all have funny accents, which no one can understand. Also when you hear people talk about England you often hear them talk about beer, drinking, pubs etc. And you might have thought that is the last thing I associate with the uk. Well that’s because it’s more to do with the north. The northerners are the most rowdy of all of us, as seen here. All the shops in the town are boarded up, as you can see. And the entire town moves their cars to the next village, because nobody cares about property. The way the game works is there are two teams. The up’ards and the down’ards. The team you are on depends on where in the town you were born. If you were born north of the river, you play for the up’ards, south of the river, the down”ards. There are no rules as i mentioned earlier. You might think, sure,y this is illegal. Ordinarily it would be, but because it has become such a big part of that areas culture, the government were like, y’a know what? Fuck it. But you participate at your own risk. If you get injured you are solely responsible. People go nits about it. And they go wherever the ball goes, if someone throws it own into the lake, they jump in the lake to swim to it. If there are three inches of snow on the ground, they carry on regardless. The game is nuts. And it takes place over a two day period. Funnily enough all shops and hotels etc. Are shut except the pub.
Well put kidda, we have one, all be it smaller version, the sedgefield ball game, but "goals" are used, only one score, 1-0. Lads from out lying villages take part, it's medieval too, County Durham.
@ 2:11 Check out the little girl scared witless in the doorway! Who the F*** takes a child to something like this?
I saw that. Not the place I'd want a kid that size at all.
Remember the film called the Purge? Where do you think they got the idea?
It looks like a rugby match with tons of players! Like one big scrum to gain possession off the ball. X
It's been going on for almost a 1000 years in England with only one major update to the rules over the last 100 years 1) Do not kill anybody.
The fact that there aren't more injuries/stabbings etc, shows this game does some limitations and respect. Imagine this game in London?
It's not drug turf their fighting over mate, just a game
Lots of foreign people would be targeted if you know what I mean 😉
@@16DeadAndSmiling Yes, that's my point.
Estate v estate. We were the same when we were lads, pit village v pit village, Durham.
What can I say were a nation of fighters 🤣
After looking at some of the traditions there, I understand how an empire happened.
Amen thank you for learning about our culture, I expect you probably have British roots. Keep up the good work and more cricket vids please
I'm an English man through and through, but boy have I got loads of Viking in me, Danelaw.
The final score was 32 in the ICU, 29 in surgery.
Local A&E looks like a warzone afterwards
We do this to unwind, then we go in to watch Downton Abbey before doing a few laps of the Isle of Man TT race circuit!
Thanks for the reaction, Count Dankula's video provides a good explanation of the objectives, rules and history. Keep up the good work mate.
Well that’s the north of England for you
Yeh were men are born lol
The Midlands me bab
No, it's the Midlands.
@@stephwaite2700 Technically it's in derbyshire, but you might as well call it the north cause just look at them.
Weekend past time up here in Durham lads hahaha, all the best lads.
Yup we're a tough lot ! most of your American heroes came from these shores, Davey Crockett Jim Bowie Daniel Boone Sam Houston Lewis and Clarke there's to many to mention, tough men who laid the foundations of the USA. Their ancestors were mostly British. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
John Paul Jones
@@peterdurham4920 John Paul Jones, another good British name. Bye the way I'm from Durham 👍
John paul jones commanded the land invasion on British soil during the American war of independence, yes an American hero but also a British traitor, he invaded the port of whitehaven, the second most active port at the in the uk, by the way Durham is a beautiful county, all the best
@@peterdurham4920 it is beautiful and historic, thank you.
Durham Lad here, it's the LAND OF THE PRINCE BISHOPS, and steeped in Danelaw culture, Vikings. We have a smaller version at sedgefield, bout 4 miles from me. Chilton.
The English...we not all Hugh Grant and Mr Darcy I tell you!
They're a different breed up north buddy lol crazy as shit but a great laugh as well!
up north? we're in the center, this is only Warwickshire not far from Coventry which is the centre both longitudinally and latitudinally
@@SirZanZa I don't have a clue where this is I just assumed it was somewhere up there.
Have a look uppies & downies workington cumbia, peaple have died playing that one
ive seen almost all your videos can confirm your GREAT
"Are they crazy?"
"No, they are just British."
"O, that makes sense."
Sees "Atherstone"... 'yeah, this is probably going to be grim'
I'm a brit and i didnt even know this was a thing...seems I've been living under a rock
Probably the safest place , budge over a bit lol : )
@@patrickrose1221 LOL....There's another game similar always on Shrove Tuesday...
Normal to me as I lived in atherstone all my life, as a kid I thought everybody had them, turns out only we do it properly and a a few do it differently and not as violent 👍
If every city in the world held this event , there would be a lot less violence for the rest of the year.
Used to live in Coventry but worked in Atherstone at an office on the main road there - despite all shops being boarded up on that day each year, there was always still quite a bit of damage.. [it was a long time ago I worked there - I've lived in Turkey for 16 years]
A wonderful English tradition in rural towns. Historically just before 40 days of fasting, Atherstone would have a football game where under the guise of 'sport' you and your friends could go and have an organised fight with people from your own town and other local villages lol Oh, it will give you a lovely insight into the kind of people you have to deal with on a face to face level, when you end up working away for a couple of weeks in these places!
Sedgefield, UK also has its own ball game which has been going for centuries. Used to live right in the middle of it.
This is what I call home😊 i live in atherstone the people are mental 😂
Look at Ashbourne’s Shrovetide game
I bet you’re pleased the Mayflower left when it did!
Just after watching 'MOST INSANE BARBIE JEEP RACING OF ALL TIME!!'. A right good laugh.
The ball used to have gold in it and whichever person or team had the ball at the end kept the gold. Sure it’s something like that The game goes way back
They removed the gold because it hampered the mobility of the ball. Now its lighter and the game is more fun. They also restricted the field to the high street because the ball kept ending up in the canal when they allowed it to go anywhere.
Welcome to the country of men🇬🇧
The 2020 game was halted half way through because of a medical emergency. 1 of the marshalls got hurt and was in critical condition in hospital
That was my step dads best mate Martin he ended up brain dead but he’s doing so much better now
@Amber Porter jeez I'm glad to know that he's doing good wasn't a pretty story
I live 4 miles from Atherstone...Awsome
My home town, attended every year till moving away. There are no goals but the ball is just kicked up and down long street until near end of time, then groups move in and try to keep the ball. The winning 'team' would take the ball around the town collecting for charity.
After watching these videos you get some idea of how we conquered half the world ...... nobody loves a fight like the English, apart from the Scots and Irish obviously 😜
I've always said the same, if you ever wonder how, look at what we do for fun 😂
What about the Welsh! great soldiers .
@@lesjames5191 yh big up the Welsh
They were protecting the ball till the horn it’s always been rough but I believe it’s go worse these years
It use to be men who played the game but more and more thugs come in just to mess about
@@theduke493 getting dirty on dirty bastards is half the fun
@@16DeadAndSmiling Looks quality mate. I'd love to go
Brilliant mate haha Thank you, ten thumbs up .
This should tell any one it’s not a good idea to try to invade our islands this is when we are playing wait till the serious stuff starts
The original medieval football game held in 1199 was played with a big bag of gold. Kind of explains the ferocity of the game. The side holding the ball when the klaxon sounds at 5pm is the winner. They were guarding the ball in a doorway to keep it in their hands.
This is more like the way football used to be played back in medieval times by competing villages. Often it was banned because it was too violent. Nice to see the Health and Safety guys and the police relaxing at the side.
There are so many things for you to try when this pandemic is over and you are able to travel to the UK. Will you play in this ball game before or after you try cheese rolling? ;)
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I is the gauntlet down old boy?
I'm from England and I've never heard of this before
Short sharp jabs and undercuts
It's my ball and I want it back LOL
Looks like a normal night in the dancin
Great videos. Should check out the Calcio Storico a football game in Florence Italy. It’s like MMA, football, rugby and gladiators combined
A sneak attack from an upstairs window ledge this game is so tactical lol.
They play this in Ashbourne, Derbyshire. We call it shrovetide football. Prince Charles one year started the game off.
Ah I just seen you have Ashbourne on your channel. Great stuff dude!
Crazy ...
I live in Atherstone, the games over 800 years old, it tends to be different towns against each other, the idea being to be the person who has the ball in his hands when the horn goes. The game is policed by locals, with the actual police there just in case. The atmosphere when you are there is amazing. The game lasts about 4 hours with the kids and younger people allowed to join in before the big boys get going later on.
If I recall in that years "match" the lads in the dorway had formed a team and were defending the ball. As the "winners" are whomever holds the ball at the end when the whistle goes. Allegedly it was started hundreds of years back by bored nobles who stitched some gold into a football and tossed it into a crowd for a laugh. Modernly there is no gold or other cash just the ball and bragging rights. (also contusions, concussions, missing teeth etc) I would include missing marbles but Im sure no one in that melee had any to start with
British culture at its best lol
You wouldn't believe that a nation of warriors like these could be felled by a bug, and not a very strong bug at that .
Keep safe over there pal. Best regards .
Thank you.
Has very les to do with, a not very strong bug.
And much more to do with the Government being Thoroughly spooked and even petrified at a not very strong bug.
YAY Government Tyranny. 😑😒🙁😟😞😤
Stay Safe Mate, Only Thing You Can Do Now'er Days.
@@foundationofBritain why don’t you take a walk around a hospital? You will see full beds of Covid patients. Stop pretending it’s nothing
@MrMadManc really? Bullshit. It’s funny that I actually work in hospitals all over the country. And actually see it first hand. Yet you, some idiot on RUclips seems to think he knows more. So empty hospitals? Have you seen pictures online have you? Because I assure you , many hospitals are in the high 90s percentage in occupancy. You are completely making shit up, I see it daily.
@MrMadManc trust me bro, its not empty i was admitted in November i thought i was going to die, it was packed people in corridors and all sorts
Soo much fun !!!!