Ashbourne, Derbyshire, UK. 28th Feb, 2017. The annual and historic game of Royal Shrovetide football is played over the next two days in the Derbyshire market town of Ashbourne. The competing teams ‘Up'ards & Down'ards' compete to score a ball across fields, rivers and ponds with goal posts three miles apart. Credit: sam spickett/Alamy Live News

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