Jules' Jeux.

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_cs.ucc.ie>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 00:50:11 +0100 (BST)

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...

> Cricket : Surely, a game of inscrutable Kralori Mystics?

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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