https://vo.rs/tags/staffordshire/Latest from the Staffordshire desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Sun, 25 Jun 2017 11:06:00 +0000https://vo.rs/encore/toe-wrestling-derbyshires-barefoot-world-championship/<p>Two barefoot competitors sit facing each other across a raised wooden platform the sport calls, with a straight face, the &ldquo;toedium.&rdquo; They interlock big toes across the middle and each tries to pin the other&rsquo;s foot flat against a padded side panel and hold it there for three seconds. That is toe wrestling, Britain&rsquo;s answer to arm wrestling, contested every year at a pub on the Staffordshire-Derbyshire border, and it exists for one of the most honestly petty reasons any sport has ever been invented: a group of English drinkers were sick of losing at everything else.</p>Sun, 25 Jun 2017 11:06:00 +0000