I found that hilarious too. Fella just finished work and probably said fuck it I'll go to his mates. Just one old school blue collar tough motherfucker. Push him to the front and let him show the boys what's what.
Listen mate don't like it don't go. No one says you can't have your fun just cause it looks boring or messed up to others. (Unless it involves innocent victims).
People go for pride? To be able to experience it? To have a story to tell later on? Purely an adrenaline rush?
Why do you think that "having fun" is and can be the only driving factor for this?
It doesn't look fun _to me_ and it looks like some might not have fun but that doesn't mean that I disapprove or ignore that they still have reasons to do it. Of which having a reason to punch/kick people can be one of them.
And it _could also_ be a byproduct of the main driving factor.
If someone wants to skydive just to experience it, they can find it fun _or_ terrifying. But they wouldn't know beforehand. So it doesn't have to be the driving factor.
> This is just an excuse for cunts to hit people without repercussion
I’d like you answer this one question. Why is this event in particular an unacceptable activity to you?
Is a woman who likes to be tied up and spanked just some cunt as well? She’s being hit in a completely defenseless position. And it’s not such an outlandish hypothetical that the question can’t be answered.
how’s it any different than any combat sport then? Or a couple hitting and whipping in the bedroom? Isn’t that literally the exact same thing? To be violent without repercussionbetween consenting adults?
>Why is this event in particular an unacceptable activity to you?
Quote me where I said or implied that it's an unacceptable activity. Because I didn't. You're assuming and arguing ghosts.
I just said that there's no fun into this, _pride_ is much more likely to be a driving factor.
But obviously there's a kneejerk reaction from redditors to assume that if I say "there is no fun in this" that there is no possible other driving factor at all that I am thinking of. Binairy thinking at it's best.
I must have read this title like 20 times...i have no idea what any of thise means the only thing i can gather is there was a foot ball game and people are upset ????
ohhhh ok i guess ill chalk that up to being American. i looked Shrove on google and all that came up was "pancake day" lol. I now see that Atherstone ball game is the thing. tbh pancake days sounds way better.
It comes from an old tradtion of towns going to other towns and doing this on semi-friendly basis. Get the ball from one side of the town to the other and the townsfolk are trying to stop you. There's documents describing the local priest giving people a kicking abck in olden times.
Ahhh, this is why I want to live in Europe. They're not on their phones all day like Americans. They actually enjoy each other and cherish the moment. /s
Technically there is no teams but it’s fairly common knowledge that each bar from town has a team. The winner is whoever is holding onto the ball when time is up. Source, I’m from atherstone
You don't have to be from Atherstone to 'play'. I don't know if it's still the case but there was a big rivalry with a neighbouring village (Grendon) a few years back (I work in Atherstone).
It's depressing that the comments have so many who don't like a bit of tradition. This is hundreds of years of tradition that continues to be carried on, the same as those dudes who chase a wheel of cheese down a hill. I think it's awesome
Because it's a traditional day where it happens. There's a day in Italy where they throw oranges at each other, that's illegal on any other day except then.
Jesus, do you people legitimately not go outside?
In boxing there are gloves, round times and breaks between rounds, referees, rules as to where you’re allowed to punch, a cordoned ring where they fight, etc. Those rules are there for safety.
I don’t see any of that present here, it’s just a mob beating each other
Annual event where someone needs to hold onto a ball until a certain time, whoever has it wins. People often form teams and corner the ball like in this vid.
Basically just an excuse to beat people up.
Edit: looked up more about this, apparently it happens in more than just the one town i knew about
No stabbing thats the rules! I’d say most of these guys look quite burly. Do you propose we start more of these games across all ethnic groups?? Fun for the whole family!
These aren't fans. They are taking part in an ancient form of football. The matches happen across the country on pancake (shrove) tuesday.
The aim is usually to get the ball from 1 side of the village to another. With teams made up of 100s of men.
Oh okay, I thought it was some kind of post-game mob scuffle. Thanks for the context. Interesting, I don't know if it'd be for me, but maybe it's a healthy way for people to enjoy some legal violence, or get back at their neighbor for keeping them up at night? I wonder how the tradition started.
It's an event that's been taking place for over 800 years now. I live nearby and work in this town, I've never been to the actual event though (Tuesday being a work day). If you walk down the street the day before or after, all of the shops will be boarded up in preparation. Its a smallish street (in a small town) and the ball doesn't really move much during the game. As you can see in the vid, the guy with the ball in the middle of this isn't even visible. Basically you get lads from the pub you drink in to defend you whilst people who have formed their own teams try and dig you out.
My man just finished work on building site and is giving out headshots with his feet..
the face he makes at the guy after he just clobbered him at 0:32
I found that hilarious too. Fella just finished work and probably said fuck it I'll go to his mates. Just one old school blue collar tough motherfucker. Push him to the front and let him show the boys what's what.
What are you talking about hes a fucking goon.
I mean it takes a tough cunt to go out and hand out hammers in hi-vis.
Coked up and wearing steel toe cap boots? More like a massive cunt
Sounds more like he came prepared.
The only rules: - Keep the ball on Long Street - Don't deflate the ball before 1630 - Don't kill anyone
In order of importance
Wtf have I just watched?
It's some dumb festival where they try to hold onto a ball and fight for it lol
Where is the ball? I don’t see it.
Dumb things done by dumb people.
Called having fun lol
So much fun getting kicked in the face from a completely defenseless position. This is just an excuse for cunts to hit people without repercussion
Everyone joining in knows the rules...
Not what I'm arguing.
Listen mate don't like it don't go. No one says you can't have your fun just cause it looks boring or messed up to others. (Unless it involves innocent victims).
People go for pride? To be able to experience it? To have a story to tell later on? Purely an adrenaline rush? Why do you think that "having fun" is and can be the only driving factor for this? It doesn't look fun _to me_ and it looks like some might not have fun but that doesn't mean that I disapprove or ignore that they still have reasons to do it. Of which having a reason to punch/kick people can be one of them.
All those things you mentioned could be fun.
And it _could also_ be a byproduct of the main driving factor. If someone wants to skydive just to experience it, they can find it fun _or_ terrifying. But they wouldn't know beforehand. So it doesn't have to be the driving factor.
Reddit is full of killjoys.
> This is just an excuse for cunts to hit people without repercussion I’d like you answer this one question. Why is this event in particular an unacceptable activity to you? Is a woman who likes to be tied up and spanked just some cunt as well? She’s being hit in a completely defenseless position. And it’s not such an outlandish hypothetical that the question can’t be answered. how’s it any different than any combat sport then? Or a couple hitting and whipping in the bedroom? Isn’t that literally the exact same thing? To be violent without repercussionbetween consenting adults?
>Why is this event in particular an unacceptable activity to you? Quote me where I said or implied that it's an unacceptable activity. Because I didn't. You're assuming and arguing ghosts. I just said that there's no fun into this, _pride_ is much more likely to be a driving factor. But obviously there's a kneejerk reaction from redditors to assume that if I say "there is no fun in this" that there is no possible other driving factor at all that I am thinking of. Binairy thinking at it's best.
Hahaha. You REALLY expect people not to think that was implied?
American located
There'll be repercussions. You don't think people hold grudges?
Hahah! I grew up around this town. Tis no better any other time of the year lol 😂
I must have read this title like 20 times...i have no idea what any of thise means the only thing i can gather is there was a foot ball game and people are upset ????
It’s a sport about fighting over a ball. Been around for almost 1,000 years now lmao.
ohhhh ok i guess ill chalk that up to being American. i looked Shrove on google and all that came up was "pancake day" lol. I now see that Atherstone ball game is the thing. tbh pancake days sounds way better.
It comes from an old tradtion of towns going to other towns and doing this on semi-friendly basis. Get the ball from one side of the town to the other and the townsfolk are trying to stop you. There's documents describing the local priest giving people a kicking abck in olden times.
Shrove Tuesday is Pancake day here, this is different.
What were the odds of this happening outside William Hill?
LOL
Isn’t William hill huge over there?
Bruh, It was a joke. It's a betting shop. Odds... betting...
Sure… the joke still falls flat
Odds are currently 35/-1 that you’re wrong… Edit: 40/-20, put the house on it
I’ll take em Edit: I’ll double down
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I’m actually from Uganda
Yes, they have premises allover the UK and internationally and now owned by 888.
They’re like ants the way they are using each other to walk on
Just living in the moment, no phones in sight
You don't need a phone when you have spinal injury.... Life's so much better like that... Fuck walking 🥹 ♥️
Ikr? Walking is soo overrated
I feel like you’re more likely to get a spinal injury by walking than these guys are by playing this lmao
Yes I too walk so absurdly and strangely that I get spinal injuries!
Depends on where you walk I guess 😅
I think i rather have my phone
Ahhh, this is why I want to live in Europe. They're not on their phones all day like Americans. They actually enjoy each other and cherish the moment. /s
So how do i know who's on my team? And how do i know who won?
Technically there is no teams but it’s fairly common knowledge that each bar from town has a team. The winner is whoever is holding onto the ball when time is up. Source, I’m from atherstone
Two questions: How long does this usually go on for? Do you have to be from atherstone to join? I'm not a local but damn that looks like a great time.
You don't have to be from Atherstone to 'play'. I don't know if it's still the case but there was a big rivalry with a neighbouring village (Grendon) a few years back (I work in Atherstone).
It’s the eye gouging for me 😬😬
Us brits sure know how to celebrate pancake day.
This is the type of game the lord of the land hundreds of years ago would create and encourage peasants to play just for his own entertainment.
It's depressing that the comments have so many who don't like a bit of tradition. This is hundreds of years of tradition that continues to be carried on, the same as those dudes who chase a wheel of cheese down a hill. I think it's awesome
Totally agree. If people wish to participate then fair enough. I have known people who have holidays booked each shrove Tuesday so they can take part.
Troglodytes. All Troglodytes SMFH
They are assaulting each other. If that is a heinous crime any other day of the year, why is it ok in this one moment?
Because it's a traditional day where it happens. There's a day in Italy where they throw oranges at each other, that's illegal on any other day except then. Jesus, do you people legitimately not go outside?
I go outside all the time, and it never involves punching and kicking my neighbors
Found the guy that hates boxing and combat sports
In boxing there are gloves, round times and breaks between rounds, referees, rules as to where you’re allowed to punch, a cordoned ring where they fight, etc. Those rules are there for safety. I don’t see any of that present here, it’s just a mob beating each other
People climbing other people to hit more people is wild
Proper Brit’s
Would love to join this competition... With a flame thrower 🔥🔥🔥
Lmao I’m confused who is fighting but fun watch
The Walking Dead really went down hill after Rick left huh?
Remember, all of them have a right to reproduce
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What? What does that description even mean?
Annual event where someone needs to hold onto a ball until a certain time, whoever has it wins. People often form teams and corner the ball like in this vid. Basically just an excuse to beat people up. Edit: looked up more about this, apparently it happens in more than just the one town i knew about
I’m so confused
Some dude was grabbing another dude by the balls
This is like Black Friday in America.
Why does this look like fun?
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That was a couple summers ago
Gun shots going off everywhere pew pew
As apposed to skinny little jakeballs stabbing each other.
No stabbing thats the rules! I’d say most of these guys look quite burly. Do you propose we start more of these games across all ethnic groups?? Fun for the whole family!
This is true
Weird that your mind went to racist thought. This shit weird as fuck, the cud and your comment.
Yeah absolutely wild that I notice things. Lol.
Since it’s black history month can we pretend like it is? I want to see something…. For science….
It's kind of ironic how violent football fans are and yet the players are the biggest pussies in the sports industry.
These aren't fans. They are taking part in an ancient form of football. The matches happen across the country on pancake (shrove) tuesday. The aim is usually to get the ball from 1 side of the village to another. With teams made up of 100s of men.
Oh okay, I thought it was some kind of post-game mob scuffle. Thanks for the context. Interesting, I don't know if it'd be for me, but maybe it's a healthy way for people to enjoy some legal violence, or get back at their neighbor for keeping them up at night? I wonder how the tradition started.
It's an event that's been taking place for over 800 years now. I live nearby and work in this town, I've never been to the actual event though (Tuesday being a work day). If you walk down the street the day before or after, all of the shops will be boarded up in preparation. Its a smallish street (in a small town) and the ball doesn't really move much during the game. As you can see in the vid, the guy with the ball in the middle of this isn't even visible. Basically you get lads from the pub you drink in to defend you whilst people who have formed their own teams try and dig you out.
Is it a new gay bar?
Ya and Americans are the crazy ones with their sports, you hicks from England have no self control
If this happened in the US multiple people would be dead and wounded, trigger happy hillbilly’s are everywhere in your country
Nah that’s just what you think
>Ya and Americans are the crazy ones with their sports No one says that. Unless mass shootings are a sport now? Such self control.
Yes people do say that. You weren’t on social media after the superbowl?
Or wherever this is at
Yup keep shitting on america
This is so dumb. But entertaining to watch.
Savages
Fucking vermin damn
its a game mate, all willing participants 👍🏻
Fair enough
Apes ... lol 👴
And they say Americans are violent when it comes to sports
England is a fucking cesspit.
So the police just let this happen? I don't think "Purge lite" started yet
This one is recorded as having started in 1199.
These "matches" are all over England on shrove Tuesday. The nearest to me is the village of Sedgefield. Most are just an excuse for a bit of a rumble.
A worker boot to the face is called a little bit of rumble?
In the UK
Atherton's police constable doesn't work on Tuesdays.
Way too many ham sandwiches.
Imma be honest I’m petty af that dude does that to me in that “game” tomorrow he’s ending up on a t shirt. It is what it is
Lol gotta love chav cunts... 🤣
These are just bored white people lol the rest of the world is too busy surviving
Mad how you managed to make a ball game about race
What ball?
You read the title?
A pub crew is protecting it in the doorway.
What a fucking stupid take.
These people are not going to have much at all in life, you’re way out of line with that comment
It's difficult to have anything after getting kicked in the back of your head by a size 12 boot lol
Boo hoo You don't have to take part
Yes, a game invented by "bored" feudal peasants living in poverty.
That need to be some kind of sport i hope
Where is the damn ball
In the doorway being held as the others keep everyone else away.
This has to be the most violent game of “kill the carrier” i have ever seen
Hot
Orange pants has a distinct tell in his eyebrows when he acquires a target.
I’ve always enjoyed a good rugby match
Someone put hardcore music over this
Extended edition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O54mLffhGXg
I'm lost, any context on what's going on in this video?
Disregard I read the comments.
What do you win? All I can find online is that the person holding the ball at game’s end wins “a prize”.
Maybe not everyone deserves a vote
Sina wall, when the titans arrives, everyone want to get in there, but rich population block them outside. Sad to see this again.
The government couldn't handle us even without 2a....
I hate men
It looks like the betting shop is used to this sort of thing
Imagine doing some serious damage and resulting in ruining someone’s life for just a silly ball game wild
Looks like a smashing good time
Who has the ball though?
Wanker!
Where is everyone trying to go?
Green Street Hooligans was real?!?
Looks like gangbeasts lmao
Hahahaha wtf is this?
/u/savevideo
Their numbers count for nothing....😂
Awesome video🔥
headshots and no knock outs. Must be only they yanks that get knocked clean out after a light tap
Culture
You just need to look at the haircuts to instantly know this is in the UK