No Pie, No Priest: A Journey through the Folk Sports of Britain by Harry Pearson Groundswell Speaker 2024 OrionISBN: 9781399606950Extent: 144 pages

OrionISBN: 9781399606950Extent: 144 pages

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No Pie, No Priest: A Journey through the Folk Sports of Britain by Harry Pearson Groundswell Speaker 2024 OrionISBN: 9781399606950Extent: 144 pagesWriter 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. When Victorian public schoolmasters and Oxbridge educated gentlemen were taming football, codifying cricket, bringing the values of muscular Christianity to the boxing ring and