In older times Tug-o-war contests were popular events in the town and the Northend fishermen were unbeatable, even against strapping young policemen and after all, they were horny handed, hardened professional rope pullers back in the days of sail.
Young fishermen were not allowed to take part in the contests which meant that the Northend teams were made up of the elder members of that community and they would have spent many hours drinking before taking the field and even then the anchor man would have found all the time in the world to neatly coil the rope as his 'crew' reeled in the opposition.
Eventually they were beaten by a professional team (who illegally wore studs in their shoes) but only after the fishermen had been drinking for many hours and even then it took the professionals three tries to achieve a victory.
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