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Antaletriangle · 12-21-2008, 03:39 AM

I always thought that this trad. game was played on x mas eve,early hours but it's a new year jobbie.
Kirkwall,Orkney.
Winter you can take part or watch the ba which takes part in kirkwall its self, the game takes place every Christmas and new years day. The game is played in the streets of kirkwall between what they call the uppies and the doonies. This game has been played since 1850, they have two games one for the men and one for the boys. And you can find up to two hundred people taking part in this mass game of street football, can never really get how this game is played or how they win, they have to put wooden bars over all the shops and houses door and windows so that if people bang into them then they don't break anything, this game seems to spend a lot of time of the roofs of houses and other buildings and always has an ambulance on side just in case so if you do come to watch this game play it safe and stay back out of there way.

12-21-2008, 03:39 AM	#5
Antaletriangle Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: U.K. Posts: 3,380	Re: Winter Solstice 2008 at Newgrange-Dec21st. I always thought that this trad. game was played on x mas eve,early hours but it's a new year jobbie. Kirkwall,Orkney. Winter you can take part or watch the ba which takes part in kirkwall its self, the game takes place every Christmas and new years day. The game is played in the streets of kirkwall between what they call the uppies and the doonies. This game has been played since 1850, they have two games one for the men and one for the boys. And you can find up to two hundred people taking part in this mass game of street football, can never really get how this game is played or how they win, they have to put wooden bars over all the shops and houses door and windows so that if people bang into them then they don't break anything, this game seems to spend a lot of time of the roofs of houses and other buildings and always has an ambulance on side just in case so if you do come to watch this game play it safe and stay back out of there way.