England, Not Dead Yet
In my post Pancake ban gloom I missed a real ray of light, the annual Shrovetide Football game went on as usual. The Up’ards won this year, hurray! I can’t help but think that sooner or later the state and health and safety nannies must come and kill this glorious game, it must gall them that a sport where one of the traditional rules is that you cannot murder the opponents during a game that ranges freely between two villages in huge mobs is still played in the green and pleasant land, but thank god it is. What a great game, I am sure the Down’ards will get theirs back soon enough, but once more hurray the Up’ards and England!