WHOLE NEW BALL GAME: Harry in action during the
Eton Wall Game and St Andrews (below) where he hopes to take a fine art degree; BIN MAN: Schwitters collage
I bet he hasn't felt so bruised since a rough bout of the
Eton wall game. If the Leave bus with the whoppers plastered down the side had pulled up outside the studio, Johnson would have legged it from the podium and ordered the driver to put his foot down for Calais.
Okay, going back to colonial times we were expected to thrash everybody at cricket, football, polo and the
Eton Wall game but the rest of the world has caught up.
Then he holds on to the ball a nanosecond too long, there's a penalty, it's shunted into the corner, two or three short men throw a tall man into the sky (England, the leaders of fashion, are surely going to have handles fitted to their jumpers' shorts before long), then they all put their shoulders to the bum and it's not Rugby League now, it's the
Eton wall game.
He injured the same foot, bruising the bone, taking part in the
Eton Wall Game in June 2002 and was back on crutches for a week.
And last year he took part in one of Britain's most violent ball games - known as the
Eton Wall Game.
ACTION-MAN Prince Harry doesn't hold back as he throws himself in to yesterday's rough-and-tumble
Eton Wall Game.
Maybe the reason we only got two votes was Cameron and Wills had forgotten which sport they were supposed to be supporting and kept telling them about the delights of the
Eton Wall Game.
He injured the same foot, bruising the bone, in the
Eton Wall Game in June 2002 and was back on crutches for a week.
Harry was barely recognisable arry was barely recognisable after
Eton Wall Game, 2002
Clockwise from top left: Taking part in the famous
Eton Wall Game; in his room with a photograph of his mother on his desk; with Rosie and Jenny, the housemaster's dogs; in the drawing school which features a wooden skeleton; as Conrade in a College production of Much Ado About Nothing; head to head with old boy The Duke of Wellington, who said that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton; making toast in the house kitchen.
Bill Dixon knows of just two other traditional football games in England - The Ashbourne Royal Shrovetide Game played in the low-level River Enmore at the Derbyshire town with goalposts placed in the water and the
Eton Wall Game.