Before each match begins, about 500 people sit down to a Shrovetide lunch and listen to speeches.

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This popular carnival custom takes place at the end of winter, during Shrovetide - the period just before the Christian Lent.

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The Shrovetide processions take place in the town of Hlinsko and six nearby villages in the Hlinecko area of Eastern Bohemia in the Czech Republic.

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Tina Martin, who sells Shrovetide memorabilia in her shop, Crew Deck, said many people return year after year - even though the event can be "baffling" to understand.

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The Shrovetide processions - banned in turn by the Catholic Church in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and by the socialist government in the twentieth century - play an important role in securing cohesion within the village community.

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