THE BA' WEBSITE
Magnus and Charles Tait's archive of the Ba' Game.
New Year 2010 Men's Ba' images now online 2 Jan 2010 15:39
Christmas 2009 Men's Ba' images now online 25 Dec 21:35
Davie Johnston
throws up the 2010 Men's Ba'
Heading towards the Harbour
Doonie Goal
Trumphant Rodney Spence
Happy Doonies
Uppie
Derek Sutherland won the Christmas 2009 Men's Ba at about 5:50pm
Brian
Anderson throwing up the Christmas 2009 Men's Ba
Christmas
2009 Men's Ba landing in the scrum
Article on the Kirkwall Ba' Game from the Orkney Guide Book, 3rd edition
Brian Anderson (far
right) won the Men's Ba' in Xmas 1984
The Ba' is played every Christmas and New Year's Day in Kirkwall,
Orkney. This traditional game of mass football is played in the
streets of the town between the Uppies and the Doonies. For
more details about the history of the game click here.
Charles
Tait has been covering Ba' games online since Christmas 1997 and
photographically since New Year 1977. Images and reports from this
season below will be available to view after the games. The 2007
Mens' New Year game was the 60th to be covered by Charles Tait.
To see the full
list of games covered click here.
The forthcoming book,"The Ba' - Uppies v Doonies" will
have a large selection of images from all of these games.
| New Year Men's Ba' 2010 | Rodney Spence Doonie |
| Christmas Men's Ba' 2009 | Derek Sutherland Uppie |
| New Year Men's Ba' 2009 | winner Mark Kemp Uppie |
| Christmas Mens' Ba' 2008 | winner Neil Stevenson Uppie |
| New Year Men's Ba' 2008 | winner Neil Stockan Uppie |
| Christmas Mens' Ba' 2007 | winner Ian Gorn Uppie |
| New Year Men's Ba' 2007 | winner Ronnie Paterson Uppie |
| New
Year Boys' Ba' 2007 |
winner Aaron MacLean Uppie |
| winner Stuart Slater Uppie | |
| Christmas Boys' Ba' 2006 | winner Ewan Grey Uppie |
| 2006 New Year Men's Ba' | winner Doonie Alec Findlater |
| 2006 New Year Boy's Ba | winner Doonie Christopher Guthrie |
| 2005 Xmas Men's Ba' | winner Uppie Eoin Learmonth |
| 2005 Xmas Boy's Ba' | winner Doonie Marcus Guthrie |
| 2005 New Year Men's Ba' | winner Uppie Gary Coulterd |
| 2005 New Year Boy's Ba' | winner Uppie Dean Campbell |
| 2004 Xmas Men's Ba' | winner Andrew Currie Uppie |
| 2004 Xmas Boy's Ba' | winner John Tait doonie |
| 1980 Men's Ba' | won by Ian Smith who threw up the 2005 New Year's Day Ba' |
| Previous games by Charles & Magnus Tait | All of the games we have covered with a selection of images |
| The Kirkwall Ba' Game | The story of the Ba' Game |
| Ba' Winners | Past Games and Winners |
| Links | Orkney and Neolithic links |
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of the images on this site are available as prints - to order please
quote the number on the left of the caption of the form X2000-1234.
Orders may be placed by email, phone or fax. The standard size is
5x7in, although other sizes are available. Images are also available
for reproduction - please quote year (e.g. NY2000) and number or
caption.
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