From: Alex Ferguson (abf@cs.ucc.ie)
Date: Wed 22 Jul 1998 - 02:50:11 EEST
Julian Lord:
> I can imagine
> medieval football (where each team is an entire village, one goal is in
> one village, the other goal in the next one, and the brutish hooligan
> supporters are also the star players in the game. One game a year, and
> one goal scored, i believe, every two or three games ...)
In my article many moons ago about Iorgh! (hurling/shinty/camanachd/
full contact golf) I suggested that it was often played on just such
an "informal" pitch, between different Orlanthi clans/families...
According to an extremely old White Dwarf (back when it was a magazine),
a game of inscrutable aldryami, which seems a pretty good fit to me.
Week-long rituals involving more contemplation and inactivity than
actual running around, but with occassional bouts of frenzied activity,
inexplicably suddenly. And of course, no casual onlooker would have
_any_ idea who was winning...
Slainte,
Alex.
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