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The Independent 16 April 2004
(c) 2004 Independent Newspapers (UK) Limited. In The Ordeal of Young Tuppy, PG Wodehouse describes a football game between two villages. The confrontation dates back to the reign of Henry VIII, "when it lasted from noon till sundown over an area covering several square miles. Several deaths resulted on that occasion." JR Daeschner, an American who has lived here for 10 years, writes vividly about the real thing, which involves up to 300 drunken men in Lincolnshire. "My torso," he writes, "feels like a giblet bag." He also explores cheese rolling, shin-kicking, bog-snorkelling and gurning ("most gurners don't have to work at being ugly"). Colourful, aren't we? |