Mob games: Medieval version of football for entire Towns and Villages
Mob Games
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Continuing
our series tracking the growth of ancient football, in the series where we
discussed forms of ancient football Cuju, Kemari, Pok a Tok, we have reached
the stage of middle ages football famously known as Mob Games
Excerpts
1) Name of Game: Mob games
2) Cultures Involved: Celtic and Anglo-Saxon
3) Number of Players: Unlimited
4) Teams: Village against village, town against town
5) Rules: Hit the ball towards a landmark
This form of football was played during Celtic and Anglo-Saxon
cultures, before proceeding ahead let us read few lines on Celtic and Anglo-Saxon
cultures,
Celts consisted of Indo-European people in Iron age and Medieval part
of Europe, while Anglo-Saxons were people from German tribes, migrated to
Island of Great Britain during the period of 5th century
This form of middle age football is known as mob game as it involved
entire Villages or Towns. Where towns were pitted against another town, village
against another village, unlimited number of players each trying to hit the
ball towards specific landmarks
Due to huge number of players involved there were large blood sheds,
which forced various rulers to ban the game, but still somehow it carried with
cultures
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