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BA' WEBSITE
Magnus and Charles Tait's archive of the Ba' Game. Images of the Christmas 2007 game are online and the New Year 2008 pix online after the game. This will be the 62nd to be covered by us.
New Year 2008 Men's Ba' 01:45 2nd Jan pix uploaded - more moro
Higher resolution Ba' images are available on our Gallery
Article
on the Kirkwall Ba' Game from the Orkney Guide Book, 3rd edition
The New Year 2007 Men's Ba's was won by Uppie Neil Stanger
Iain Gorn won the Xmas 2007 Men's Ba'
Action on Junction Road
Ian Gorn was the Uppie winner - a
popular choice with two sisters dedicated to the game
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' 2008 | |
| 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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