Getting some air: The largest remaining game of "no rules" medieval football, played every year in Ashbourne, England. Credit: Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images The ritual game, eagerly awaited all year ...

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“I discovered Real Football through my research of British traditions, in a bid to better understand the people, places, and landscape of modern-day Britain,” says photographer Nick Bannehr on the ...

At 2 p.m. last Tuesday, in a parking lot in the ancient English market town of Ashbourne in the Derbyshire Dales, an elderly man climbed onto a brick plinth in front of a crowd of some 3,000 people.

The ritual game, eagerly awaited all year, is about to kick off. Two teams of burly dudes spoiling for a fight will line up to tussle over possession of a pigskin. Every inch the ball advances on ...