#royalshrovetide2024 — Public Fediverse posts
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Repost: Up'Ards have scored! Will Nash!!!
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Only an hour and 15 mins to go. Only one team can score really now. #Upards very close but #Downards can still stop them
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Repost of an earlier post by Chris Clarke, just because the photo is really atmospheric:
The hug by the river. Feel free to reuse.
https://twitter.com/listerthrawn/status/1757476996576162229/photo/1
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Repost: https://twitter.com/ShrovetideLive/status/1757479295885132007
"This is where the hug has ended up."So, North of the Henmore Brook, just east of the playing fields but into actual countryside. Still #Upards with the upper hand
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We're in the pond now, open water swimming and heading to #Sturston. #Upards are in charge here... the crowds are heading to the top of the pond in the park. It's going to be tricky for #Downards to turn this one around
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The Ball is in the park!!!
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Repost https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-news/ashbourne-royal-shrovetide-live-updates-9095884
The ball is still missing...
It seems it is still under the culvert - this is a view from the Dig Street end.The shout of "heave" keeps emantating from the culvert every now and again.
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It looks like everyone's getting wet now: The people in the river (the hug still seems stuck under Shaw Croft car park) and the rest of #Ashbourne is getting rained on waiting for it to emerge. I think I'd head to the pub until the ball comes out.
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This is not what the #Downards need. The ball seems to be going up stream to the park and people are waiting for the hug to come out from the bridge on Park Road
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And it's back in the river, under the bridge. It is possible that the hug could take the ball all the way up the river, under the tunnel and out into the park. If that happens, it's advantage #Upards
Blue line shows possible route into the park along the underground section of the Henmore Brook... it does happen.
Ball is still under the bridge on Dig Street though.
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Finally a change. The ball breaks from the hug in the river, heads "Up" the brook back to Dig Street, then thrown vertically up to the bridge to street level.
Momentum swings to the #Upards
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Approximate route of the ball so far. Currently in the brook at the back of the Coach and Horses.
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Yep, the ball is in the Henmore Brook now. Hard to see from the https://www.shrovetide.tv/ angle if we are moving but there's possibly 50 people in the river now.
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We've (I say we, I'm 150 miles away!) taken a right-turn now into the back of the Green Man. Looks like 2000 people are heading to the pub.
The balls popped out above the crowd, absolute limbs, people climbing over people heads, steam is rising. A lively start 15 minutes in.
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Well just for a change it looks like the #Downards have the early advantage from the turn-up. The hug seems to be by the Co-op heading to Dig Street.
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I'll be trying to gather some socials to keep up with it, but if you fancy following the action, try https://www.shrovetide.tv/
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Sadly, I won't be in the area this week but #Ashbourne #RoyalShrovetide2024 kicks off in a couple of minutes...
Shrovetide football: England's ancient and chaotic ball game https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240205-shrovetide-football-englands-ancient-and-chaotic-ball-game @bbc_travel