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Recap from Ashbourne Royal Shrovetide 2024 as Up’ards win 2-0 against Down’ards
Yes, it was that time of year again - the annual Royal Shrovetide football match once again took place in Ashbourne.
Thousands of people descended on the town and remained...
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Ashbourne Royal Shrovetide 2023 day two recap as Up’ards win 1-0
After two gruelling days of play, the annual Royal Shrovetide football match in Ashbourne has now finished - with victory for the Up'ards.
Every year,...
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Ashbourne Royal Shrovetide 2022 full recap as Up’ards win 3-1
The Up'ards have won this year's annual Ashbourne Royal Shrovetide football match with a 3-1 victory over the Down'ards after two days of play.
Every...
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Will Shrovetide Football ever be banned?
Former Shrovetide footballer James Horrobin has defended the game after calls for it to be banned.
After this year's event in which there were a...
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Everything you need to know about Ashbourne’s historic Shrovetide game
It’s one of the biggest games of football on the planet, quite literally. Ashbourne’s annual Royal Shrovetide Football event, which takes place between Shrove Tuesday...
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Blog: How to survive Shrovetide and enjoy it
If you are not from Ashbourne and you are saying that you know what Shrovetide is, you must surely be lying (unless you have...
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Blog: How Shrovetide 2020 changed my view of the game and myself
Once a year, tales of broken limbs and bloodied faces filtered down into the quiet town where I grew up.
They spoke of nearby Ashbourne...
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Blog: Shrovetide, dumb Decisions and the discovery of ladness
Fun fact, to start with, I have the mental backbone of a noodle soaked in magma.
I can adamantly think over an action for several...
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Ashbourne Royal Shrovetide 2020: RECAP all the action and reaction from the event
Yes, it was that time of year again - the annual Ashbourne Royal Shrovetide football match has once more come and gone.
Every year, the...
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The story behind the last-minute Down’ards goal at Shrovetide 2020
There was a dramatic conclusion to this year’s annual Shrovetide event – as the Down’ards snatched a last-minute equaliser to deny the Up’ards a...
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Why FIFA were inspired by Ashbourne’s Shrovetide football game
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) on the face of it has very little to do with Ashbourne, the Derbyshire market town more...
