{"id":71028,"date":"2023-02-22T16:33:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T16:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/22\/giant-brawl-erupts-during-weird-british-sporting-tradition\/"},"modified":"2023-02-22T16:33:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T16:33:16","slug":"giant-brawl-erupts-throughout-bizarre-british-sporting-custom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/22\/giant-brawl-erupts-throughout-bizarre-british-sporting-custom\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant brawl erupts throughout bizarre British sporting custom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"UVAeu9\">England are absolutely the kings of previous, esoteric sports activities no person outdoors of regional areas have heard about \u2014 and the Atherstone Ball Game isn&#8217;t any exception. Teams from Leicestershire and Warwickshire compete each Shrove Tuesday to wrestle over an enormous ball, and this yr it devolved into insanity.<\/p>\n<div id=\"nvfGzQ\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Brutal finish to Atherstone Ball Game 2023. The final half an hour of the Pancake Day custom noticed punches thrown &amp; a betting store broken as groups battled to achieve management of an outsized ball. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LPMtAUaA1f\">pic.twitter.com\/LPMtAUaA1f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Urban Pictures (@Urban_Pictures) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Urban_Pictures\/status\/1628099487141855232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 21, 2023<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"BYUL9B\">Shoving and the occasional torn shirt are nothing new for the sport, however an enormous brawl outdoors a bookie undoubtedly is. It occurred shortly earlier than the 5 p.m. full time whistle, and featured dozens of gamers on each side tearing at one another and punching one another in pursuit of the ball.<\/p>\n<p id=\"O9zfwT\">This bizarre recreation dates again 1199, when a bag of gold was used as each the ball and prize between the villages. Now groups assemble on each side on Shrove Tuesday to maintain the custom alive in multi-hour insanity the place every workforce is attempting to maintain maintain of the ball till the ultimate whistle. That\u2019s actually the one rule: Hold on for expensive life. <\/p>\n<p id=\"CK3nFt\">It\u2019s been known as the hardest sport on the planet, and with scenes like this you&#8217;ll be able to see why. It ought to be famous that nothing is going on legally on account of the sport \u2014 as a result of all that is accepted as a part of the competition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] England are absolutely the kings of previous, esoteric sports activities no person outdoors of regional areas have heard about \u2014 and the Atherstone Ball Game isn&#8217;t any exception. Teams from Leicestershire and Warwickshire compete each Shrove Tuesday to wrestle over an enormous ball, and this yr it devolved into insanity. Brutal finish to Atherstone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-71028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}