new video loaded: Players Tussle in English Town’s Centuries-Old Football Game transcript “Five, four, three, two, one.” [horn sounds] “Go on, lad.” “Kick it.” “Yay!” ...

This is the Atherstone Ball Game, an 826-year-old tradition in this Warwickshire town, and one of a dwindling number of ancient football games played across Britain on Shrove Tuesday, known as Fat ...