Today would have been the Shrovetide ‘Mob’ Football event in Ashbourne Derbyshire. It’s off of course this year… as you can see the difficulties in maintaining any ‘social distancing’. So, here is a selection from past years. I have been to it for many years, it is a fine anarchistic and weird event going back perhaps for nearly a 1000 years. I have frequently take younger photographers with me. There is loads of violence, but not much animosity. It thus good training, in that if you can keep your ‘sealegs’ in this situation, then you can do toe to toe with the Metropolitan police more effectively!
