# Re: When footie was invented 😲!

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Posted by Charlie on August 09, 2021 at 18:42:44

In Reply to: When footie was invented 😲! posted by Ry on August 06, 2021 at 21:08:18:

Hi, Ry, how you doing? Trust the weather has improved for your holiday. The game you saw where everyone just piled in and got wet and muddy as they were, fully clothed, sounds like an early film of the Royal Shrovetide "medieval football" match that takes place annually in Ashbourne in Derbyshire on Shrove Tuesday and Wednesday. It has been going since the early 900s I believe and involves two teams of unspecified size aiming to get a ball in the opposition goal at either end of the town's main street by any route they like, which basically means across the fields around the town, along the river, through hedgerows and woods, any where they like really within nearby countryside but always ending up aiming for the opposition's goal. There are videos on YouTube and it looks like complete chaos but I guess the players know what they are doing. It looks pretty rough and there is plenty of opportunity to get very wet and very muddy given the terrain and the river being available as playing areas.

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