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River Football

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Aug 29 2007

Bourton Rovers 1st and 2nd team players sloshed through their wettest match of the season on Monday as mayhem broke out at the annual Football in the River event at Bourton-on-the-Water. Far more entertaining than football as you know it, this is six-a-side with 15 minutes in each direction played knee deep in a bubbling brook. It was a footie free-for-all as the players ducked and dived, with screams and shrieks coming from the spectators on the river bank and bridges as the players gave them a good soaking in the process. The reds clinched the game 2-1 but it […]

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The vast majority of posts in this blog are about quirky & eccentric competitions & festivals. I started it in 2006 in France with a competition I’ll never forget. Where contestants battle it out to become the World Champion Pig Squeeler, or ‘Cri du Cochon’. I had little knowledge back then of quite how far my pursuit of these kind of events would lead me. I’ve travelled all over Britain (and occasionally further afield) to capture our curiosities and quirks. There’s nothing uniquely eccentric about the British, you’ll find people all over the world up to all sorts of weird and wonderful activities, but we do have a remarkable capacity to embrace the madness. ‘A Brit Different’ is the book that was born from it, my labour of love! So what next? There’s always something interesting going on, so watch this space, only time will tell!

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