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"For two days of each year, a market town in the Derbyshire Dales transforms into a scene of barely controlled chaos. Thousands gather in Ashbourne to witness Royal Shrovetide, a centuries-old 'football' game that resembles a riot more than a sport."
"It's like tug of war without the rope," describes local resident and former event marshall Natalie Wakefield, 43. "It's mad in the best possible way."
"The aim is to goal at either end of a three-mile sector that could take the match through rivers, hedgerows, high streets and just about anything or anywhere except for churchyards, cemeteries and places of worship."
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