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The 813th annual event held in Atherstone, Warwickshire begins when a heavy leather ball – made specially every year, filled with water and draped in red white and blue ribbons – is dropped from the window of the Barclays bank branch in the town. With several hundred participants, there are no teams, no goals and no rules except that the winner is the person in possession of the ball when a klaxon sounds after two hours' play
Shrove Tuesday ball game - in pictures
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