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The English are well-known for their eccentricities which often shows up in the type of sports they play.
Cricket, in my view at any rate, is possibly the most boring activity in the world next to watching a goldfish swimming round its bowl, though I accept, of course, that many would disagree with me.
Notwithstanding, I incline to the more interesting of sports, one with a bit of excitement. Cheese rolling, for example.
The Annual Cheese Rolling Race & Wake on Coopers Hill in Gloucester is a race that has been run for two hundred years and has attracted thousands of followers. Just last year, over fifteen thousand people turned up to watch competitors chase 7lb Double Gloucester cheeses down an impossibly dangerous 1:2 gradient sustaining many injuries in the process. What fun!
But no more. The health & safety police have stepped in to say that there are issues about the number of people attending and, as a result, this year’s race has been cancelled. Crowd control, inadequate parking, overcrowding and emergency access have been cited as reasons for the cancellation.
Curiously, not a word has been said about the health and safety of the would-be competitors. That’s eccentricity for you!
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The English are well-known for their eccentricities which often shows up in the type of sports they play.
Cricket, in my view at any rate, is possibly the most boring activity in the world next to watching a goldfish swimming round its bowl, though I accept, of course, that many would disagree with me.
Notwithstanding, I incline to the more interesting of sports, one with a bit of excitement. Cheese rolling, for example.
The Annual Cheese Rolling Race & Wake on Coopers Hill in Gloucester is a race that has been run for two hundred years and has attracted thousands of followers. Just last year, over fifteen thousand people turned up to watch competitors chase 7lb Double Gloucester cheeses down an impossibly dangerous 1:2 gradient sustaining many injuries in the process. What fun!
But no more. The health & safety police have stepped in to say that there are issues about the number of people attending and, as a result, this year’s race has been cancelled. Crowd control, inadequate parking, overcrowding and emergency access have been cited as reasons for the cancellation.
Curiously, not a word has been said about the health and safety of the would-be competitors. That’s eccentricity for you!
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