Joel Hicks

In the village of Hallaton in Leicestershire, a pie is baked using a 20 inch square tin and paraded in a procession through the village, from the Fox Inn to St Michael's Church. Slices are then cut up, blessed and dished out at the church by the rector. Immediately after this ritual "bottles" that were placed behind the pie in the procession are used for a bottle kicking match. In fact, the bottles are three small wooden kegs, two of which contain beer and the third is coloured red and white. Competing teams from Hallaton and nearby Medbourne manhandle the bottles in an attempt to get them across their goal boundaries, which are 1.6 km apart.