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A guide to the UK’s bizarre sports: From Cheshire’s World Worm-Charming Championships to the cricket match played on a sand bank in the Solent every year. It includes ratings for such games as Spectator Fun, Pain Factor, Training Required, and Chance of Becoming World Champion.

James Bamber and Sally Raynes provide an indispensable guide to the UK’s most absurd, bizarre and even foolhardy – but curiously British – ‘sports’ imaginable.From Cheshire’s World Worm-Charming Championships to the cricket match played on a sand bank in the Solent every year, there’s a rarely-spoken-of British tradition of holding very strange contests and weird world championships in which getting muddy, sick and a little upset are not mere side effects but positively celebrated. Welcome to the wacky nation…James and Sally present 50 of the oddest contests you’d never imagined existed. With a strong practical, get-involved-if-you-dare streak, \