"You'd Punch Your Best Mate" | Shrovetide - The Birth of Medieval Football
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- Опубліковано 14 бер 2021
- Known to many as "The Birth of Football", Shrovetide is an event like no other that has taken place for hundreds of years. The passion that the locals have for the game is truly remarkable; to many "scoring a Shrovetide ball changes their life".
This documentary tells the story of a town consumed by the game and in particular the exceptional events of 2019, where the ball was stolen away in the darkness by a Geography teacher and his brother. This is British sub-culture at its most brilliantly bizarre.
Filmmaker: James Kellett Smith
Twitter: @KellettJames
Instagram: @jkellett9
Vimeo: vimeo.com/user53067108
#Shrovetide #Ashbourne
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Keane's tackle on Haaland pales into insignificance when you've used an electric fence to incapacitate your opponent.
Can you imagine Neymar amongst that lot!😂😂
😂😂😂
no
Yo Neymaaa, sunny innit?
@@IndiangolferUSA Who?
I hope he gave those students a good grade
"going through the pond is like 2 fields for us" - these guys are mental hahahah
Honestly one of the best thing as a downward is when we are able to overturn the ball in the pond
That story about Steven hiding the ball at the fence is incredible!!
I've been up for the last 5 years and it's a fantastic tradition. It's such a buzz with so many bits to it, the church bells, the boarded shops,, the team talks, the turning up songs, the hug, the pubs, the rivers, the crowds, the mud! Amazing can't wait for 2023 version.
only 26k? this is one of the best youtube videos ive ever seen!!!
Anyone who plays Gaelic Football for their local club will understand why it means so much to these guys .
Gaelic footballers really wouldn’t believe what it’s like to be a Shrovetider it means so much to the town
@BigSmoke-jj7um Gaelic footballers and hurlers have to play for their parish . No such thing as transferring to another, or a better team.
Coming from experience no video can truly explain what it’s like to be in Shrovetide but this is close. Well done
hey will
fuck the boat race, THIS is real sport. this MUST continue, keep running lads
I'm from Burton, which makes me a downard. Tried explaining shrovetide to a friend in dorset a few years ago, blew his mind. To me it seems perfectly normal, to everyone further away, its insane.
Should say as well, its actually pretty friendly on the first day. Ash Wednesday is when it gets nasty.
Reason #258 why I want this pandemic to stop right now. This is mental!
You have have 258 reasons.. 😂
All these british traditions are pretty cool!
this was absolutely fantastic
Love and support from Bosnia 🇧🇦💙 Great chanel
Love that story towards the end, poor defence though if there was a full open road towards Clifton! I’m now really invested in this sport haha. Beats the big and lifeless football leagues any day
Respect to Shrovetide incredible history...❤
🔥 Y.N.W.A 🔥
The lads deserve a medal 🏅
Bro no joke Richard smith is my geography teacher
Superb little documentary.
This is amazing. I can't believe I've never heard of this before!
Everyday is a school day Tom. Glad you enjoyed it.
Lol just imagine having a proper ruck with those legends when it all began and no VAR
I'm from Chaddesden, a town next to Ashbourne, and I've gotta say, what a fucking game!
Chaddesden too!
No wonder King Edward II banned this game at one point 😂
Great stuff from Woolworths
this is sick
What an incredible Tradition.
Floridan football in Italy is worth seeing it's very brutal
Beautiful balls ! Never thought I'd say it but there you go.
British colonies took these types of town rivalries to the US. Gangs of New York is a prime example in the five points.
wow that is awesome
Looks great game 👌, similar to ba game in Kirkwall and sounds like it is facing a lot of the same issues now sadly.
I used to go to territorial army camp every week as a kid and we used to play a game of British bulldog. Loved it!
I’m from Belper, the next town over. It’s insane, it’s like watching Leeds vs Wimbledon
Just found out about this and I wish we had this in the US, looks fun!
I'd like to hear about some of the goals from previous years. Richard Smiths victory seems a bit hollow.
Having your Dad in a car alongside you while your brother recovers. Hardly says ball game. 'Great story'.
Looks fun
It’s not as fun as it looks
Fun is the wrong word. Exhilarating is a better one.
I was always fascinated by this as an American we dont come close to tradition like this. 100% mental did COVID impact this years or last?
I’m not sure about this year but last year it happened because it is in February
@@fdcx1852 this years was cancelled sadly
Someone can tell me were to find the movie WILD IN THE STREETS?
This year's game contained a brilliant example of just how good Ashbourne's runners are. And unfortunately for me, this example benefitted the Up'ards. To set the scene, the Down'ards had managed to get the ball to Aldi, which is very much Clifton-side of town. We had all the momentum, even though it had gone back and forth across the Homebase car park for a good hour beforehand, we had the momentum, and everyone thought that, if there was a goal, it would be at Clifton. The ball was less than a mile from Clifton, and about 2 miles from Sturston. Needless to say, an Up'ard runner picked up the ball in the darkness, and half an hour later the Up'ards had scored. So whoever the runner was, probably did those 2 and a bit miles in 10-15 minutes. Unfortunately impressive.
Zack and jay done it already
This is fucking quality. As a Englishman I have to experience this at least once in my lifetime. Love these old traditions so glad they have kept it going. Very surprised the pc lot have not banned it. Keep it up chaps 💪🏴
@chchedda: right with you! The mumpheads ah H&S tried to ban the cheese rolling, the villagers kicked back and went ahead regardless of what they said!
7:02 Can't be bothered to snuff out my cigarette.
Think this needs to be played on Big Ben !!!!
The world needs games like this.
47 year old old man…brutal. thanks mate 3:47
Can anyone tell me is it allowed to have people defending your own goal? I'm guessing not as it would make sense to have 20 or more there to defend it.
Can someone explain to me what happens after a goal is scored? Does everyone return to the original starting point or is it over until tomorrow??
This event has a similar frenzy as the Pamplona bull run
I wanna hear “FOR ENGLAND AND SAINT GEORGE!!!!!!!!”
If only it still happened today. Well not now because of ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. Hopefully it should happen again next year.
It was amazing this year, us up’ards won 3:1.
That's a lot of battling! It must have been going nuts that distance!
How do you differentiate between the two teams 😂
Look at this red pill hard to swallow
It’s great documentary but can anyone explain the real rules? The game takes a couple of days? And when is the winner decided?
The winner is whoever scores the most goals over 2 days. If you score before 5pm, the game restarts in the town center. The game goes on each day from 2pm until 10pm at the latest. If the ball is goaled after 5pm, that's it for the night. And I don't think we've ever had two goals before 5pm. And yes, I am from Ashbourne!
@@mastertrams your here to 😂😂 it’s funny reading these comments knowing they have no idea about it.when to us it’s a normal thing
If a country wants to prepare its people to defend from an imminent or possible invasion. They need just place this game in every city and town they have. and have it as mandatory...
Belter!
It used to be common up and down the land this sort of thing, but some regions have their own version, from the Borders to the Midlands.
Wouldn't it make sense to keep defenders back?
How can you tell teammate from opponent
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i guess if you're from there you could recognise a few faces within a crowd, but usually i bet its the way they're running.
when in rome... 👍😱🤔😂
Are there rules to this game, such as no punching / kicking / murdering etc?
Only rule is no murder
No deliberate killing allowed
Interesting episode tbh
Do I get to pick sides if I’m an outsider this looks mental
You've got to be from there.
Nope. No picking sides. I moved from France to Ashbourne when I was 10, and because of where I was born, I've been a donw'ard ever since!
@@mrnobody4237 no you don’t lol
Bet his brother is right pissed off
Proper Saxon activities
It seems more like the start of rugby tbh
Rugby started because of football
This is absolutely ripe for a movie
Better than making pancakes innit
One question.... How do you know who is on your side??
The key players do know each other so they know who is up'ard or down'ard but there's no colour coding or anything
They know each other.
ENGLAND IS AMAZING
You english people are a pretty crazy
But are you not entertained? 🤣🏴
@@UstashaMe84 uff, yes i am jajaj
hey
Live in California. I just wanna be a Down'ard.
The painter of the balls definitely bats for the other team.
Who cares
Course he cares for one team over the other, he's an Ashbournian. We all have our team, either Up'ards or Down'ards. And the rivalry is serious.
Very similar to a gerogian(the country) game that inspired rugby
Rugby is an English game and is not influenced or inspired by a Georgian game.
@@felautumn9534 it was created in its current form in England but took inspiration from an ancient Georgian game
@@laurencemaccarthaigh1130 No you are just a Scottish man that seethes and anything English. Because only you guys can have original anything right?
sorry to say this but the chinese were playing football and ball based sports about 2000 years before us but hey! we invented pingpong
replace the monarchy with this
@@calnum1054 just a country wide Shrovetide from Edinburgh to London
That would disappoint Markle and the Hollywood aristocracy.😆
Shit sounds alot like American football oh bc their the same game? Huh wonder why Europeans can’t figure that one
This is how Rugby and football originated and American football is an offshoot of Rugby
Are you saying this copied American Football?
football was born in Florence not in England
Fake EU news
@@marcrigg5953 in Florence they did the same thing but with actual rules since the medieval times
Wrong
@@marcrigg5953 what has the EU got to do with it??
That's debatable, you have an old game, but this is even older. We have records from the monks that games like this were a thing in the pre-1000s. Florence is 1400s, not 1100s.
I’m surprised the left hasn’t stopped this.
Some proper cringe in this video.
Just this comment
Go and listen to some rap, ally.
How do you differentiate between the two teams 😂