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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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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...
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Royal Ashbourne Shrovetide: What to expect on Ash Wednesday
After six hours of hectic stop-start play on Shrove Tuesday, Tom Leighton scored the first goal of Shrovetide 2020 for the Up’ards at Sturston...
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This is the moment Tom Leighton became a Shrovetide legend
As darkness descended on day one of this year’s annual Shrovetide, a hero emerged and etched his name in the competition’s folklore.
Tom Leighton, from...
