Winchester Football's Influence in Popular Culture
The fictional game, Guyball (pronounced "Ghee-ball"), played in the British television series, Green Wing, was partly inspired by Winchester Football. It features many of the same characteristics: seemingly deliberately over-complicated rules, highly specialised terminology (including stickles, maison, ubique, fat chalet, hefty fondue, Emmental loop, classical heist, topmiler, burrows and hedgehog) and roots in a public school.
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