6.13.2008

World Champ Shin Kicker

The crowd that assembled on Dover’s Hill near Chipping Campden last Friday weren’t in the Cotswolds for views of the rolling countryside.

They came instead for scenic pleasures of sheer, shinbone-shattering violence that forms part of the Cotswold Olimpick Games.

To the casual observer, it may appear that the men in white coats knocking seven bells out of one another should be the ones carted away.

But these amateur gladiators are battling for the honour of being crowned Britain’s pre-eminent shin kicker. (Full Story at mirror)

I have to be honest. I would be a little afraid of a world class shin kicker.