Question: What country still plays Ba Game around Christmas and Hogmanay?
About the article "Football", section "Inside the UK".

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  "Still Game: Christmas Special – Cold Turkey" (2005)  "Still Game: Hogmanay Special – The Party" (2006)  "Still Game: Christmas Special – Plum Number" (2007)  "Still Game: Hogmanay Special – Hootenanny" (2007)  
 The Haxey Hood, played on Epiphany in Haxey, Lincolnshire
 Shrove Tuesday games
* Scoring the Hales in Alnwick, Northumberland
* Royal Shrovetide Football in Ashbourne, Derbyshire
* The Shrovetide Ball Game in Atherstone, Warwickshire
* The Shrove Tuesday Football Ceremony of the Purbeck Marblers in Corfe Castle, Dorset
* Hurling the Silver Ball at St Columb Major in Cornwall
* The Ball Game in Sedgefield, County Durham
 In Scotland the Ba game ("Ball Game") is still popular around Christmas and Hogmanay at:
* Duns, Berwickshire
* Scone, Perthshire
* Kirkwall in the Orkney Islands
  "Traditional Shrove Tuesday matches in the United Kingdom -- annual town- or village-wide football games with their own rules:" * Alnwick in Northumberland * Ashbourne in Derbyshire (known as Royal Shrovetide Football) * Atherstone in Warwickshire * Corfe Castle in Dorset The Shrove Tuesday Football Ceremony of the Purbeck Marblers * Haxey in North Lincolnshire (the Haxey Hood, actually played on Epiphany) * Hurling the Silver Ball takes place at St Columb Major in Cornwall * Sedgefield in County Durham * In Scotland the Ba game is still popular around Christmas and Hogmanay at: ** Duns in Berwickshire ** Scone in Perthshire ** Kirkwall in Orkney Outside the UK other medieval games include: * Calcio Fiorentino — a modern revival of Renaissance football from 16th century Florence.
*La Soule in Normandy and Brittany  
The following quote is one of the first mentions of the holiday in official church records: It is ordinary among some plebeians in the South of Scotland to go about from door to door upon New-years Eve, crying Hagmane.
(This was of general disapproval of Hogmanay).
Still in Scotland Hogmanay and New Year's Day are as important as Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
Although Christmas Day held its normal religious nature in Scotland amongst its Catholic and Episcopalian communities, the Presbyterian national church, the Church of Scotland, discouraged the celebration of Christmas for nearly 400 years; it only became a public holiday in Scotland in 1958.
Conversely, 1 and 2 January are public holidays and Hogmanay still is associated with as much celebration as Christmas in Scotland.
Most Scots still celebrate New Year's Day with a special dinner, usually steak pie. 
"Still Game" started as a stage play featuring three characters: Jack Jarvis, Victor McDade, and Winston Ingram.
Due to a broken lift, the three men are stranded in Victor's flat and discuss a variety of subjects ranging from death to sex.
The stage play toured Scotland, England, Ireland and Canada before returning to Glasgow, where it was filmed and released on video and DVD.
A small number of revisions accompanied "Still Game"'s transition from stage to television.
Gavin Mitchell, who originally played Winston (and was replaced by Paul Riley for later performances), played the part of Boabby the Barman in the series.
Characters mentioned in passing were later fleshed out into supporting characters.
In 1998 Jack and Victor appeared in a number of skits in a tongue-in-cheek documentary about Scottish pop music called "Och Around the Clock".
In these they are shown to be watching while sitting in Victor's flat.
As with the Muppet characters Statler and Waldorf, their skits centred on the duo's disparaging comments about the performers.
The characters reappeared in Kiernan and Hemphill's sketch show "Chewin' the Fat", nearly every episode of which featured Jack, Victor, Tam and Winston, with minor differences from their counterparts in the series.
By the time "Still Game" became a show in its own right Winston's physical appearance had changed significantly, but he was still played by Paul Riley.
As the show evolved, supporting characters assumed greater prominence.
Jack and Victor made their final appearance on "Chewin' the Fat" in the 2002 Hogmanay Special.
The sixth series of "Still Game" ended on BBC Two on 23 August 2007.
A Christmas special was aired on BBC One Scotland on 23 December and for the rest of the UK on BBC Two on 28 December.
There was also a Hogmanay special called "Hootenanny" aired on BBC One Scotland, later aired to the rest of the UK on 2 January 2008.