Bruno Fernandes and Harry Maguire have both sent a message to Manchester United teammate Anthony Elanga after he was named among the youngsters nominated for the Golden Boy award.
29.08.2022 - 23:23 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
After a three-year hiatus, the World Gravy Wrestling Championships made its comeback in Lancashire on Sunday (August 29). The traditional Bank Holiday celebration of the Sunday tea staple - and hand-to-hand combat - had been absent from the region's calendar due to coronavirus.
Two years of the pandemic had delayed the 12th year of “one of the world’s craziest culinary competitions," held in Rossendale. There were huge queues down Stacksteads' Newchurch Road as the Rose 'n' Bowl pub threw open its doors shortly after lunch.
Competitors were ready and waiting to do battle in a huge vat of the brown stuff - grappling for two minutes to be marked on wrestling ability, fancy dress and the entertainment it brought the crowd. Taking part in the event, which was raising funds for East Lancashire Hospice, was LancsLive's own Rebecca Lockwood.
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Dressed head-to-toe in Greggs Primark gear, she did battle with a T-rex in the first round. She sailed through to the second, where a controversial technicality saw her ejected from the competition.
The now world-famous event - which has its own entry in the Guinness Book of World Records - started in the pub car park just over a decade ago. Since then it has grown in popularity. This year, 30 men and ten women took part, reports LancsLive.
Carol Lowe, 50, restaurant manager at the Rose ‘n’ Bowl said: “It’s amazing to be back and people have come from far and wide … the atmosphere is absolutely bouncing. Basically, people come in fancy dress – men and ladies – and then they wrestle in gravy and get eliminated as the day goes on.."
The organiser, who has worked in the Rose 'n' Bowl since she was 17,
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