No Pie, No Priest: A Journey through the Folk Sports of Britain

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Collective madness: contestants take part in the annual cheese-rolling championships in Gloucestershire Harry Pearson has a wry, affectionate look at these lesser-known British sports...a light, amusing read' Country Life The Telegraph values your comments but kindly requests all posts are on topic, constructive and respectful. Please review our No Pie, No Priest! combines sports reporting, travelogue and history, and features a cast of bucolic eccentrics and many deeply impenetrable regional accents.

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From 1st July 2021, VAT will be applicable to those EU countries where VAT is applied to books - this additional charge will be collected by Fed Ex (or the Royal Mail) at the time of delivery. Shipments to the USA & Canada: If there was a sporting content involving nothing more than two flies crawling up a wall, you could rely on Harry Pearson to write about it with hilarity and elan. Which is handy, as in “No Pie, No Priest” Pearson sets off on a trek around Britain (and County Armagh) exploring the country’s most offbeat and eccentric sports. Digital Reads A Curse For True Love : the thrilling final book in the Once Upon a Broken Heart series WSC regular Harry Pearson takes a warm and witty journey around Britain in pursuit of the lost folk sports that somehow still linger on in the glitzy era of the Premier League and Sky Sports to find out how and why they have survived and to meet the characters who keep them going. As well as enjoying a singular sort of history lesson, one comes away from his book with all manner of memorable nuggets'

No Pie, No Priest! combines sports reporting, travelogue and history, and features a cast of bucolic eccentrics and many deeply impenetrable regional accents. Margot Robbie stars as the eponymous fashion doll in this live-action adventure directed by Greta...

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Writer Harry Pearson takes a warm and witty journey around Britain in pursuit of the lost folk sports that somehow still linger on in the […] It’s difficult to recommend this book highly enough…Harry Pearson is so effortlessly funny that I found myself snorting aloud while I read this on the Tube. Indeed, he’s so engaging that it’s hard not to want to conduct one’s own tour to catch some of these games before it’s too late' Hive Store Ltd 2020. (hive.co.uk) is registered in England. Company number: 07300106. VAT number: 444950437. Among the idiosyncratic activities that Pearson explores are the arcane art of Cheese Rolling in Gloucester, Cumberland and Westmorland wrestling, Skittles in Somerset, Road Bowling in the aforementioned Armagh, and the terrifying violent arena of Shinty in the Scottish Highlands (as Pearson describes it, “not a place for the velvet-slippered aesthete”). Many of these improbable sports skirt the edges between being legitimate pastimes and outright brutality, and Harry Pearson details the battle these sports have had to survive, whether their opponents over the last three centuries have been organised religion, puritan zealots, meddling councils or overly officious health & safety bureaucracies (not least because of these games have frequently had connections to illicit gambling).

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Writer Harry Pearson takes a warm and witty journey around Britain in pursuit of the lost folk sports that somehow still linger on in the glitzy era of the Premier League and Sky Sports to find out how and why they have survived and to meet the characters who keep them going.