Players fighting for the bottle during the bottle-kicking game in Hallaton, central England, yesterday. The game is played between Hallaton and the neighbouring village of Medbourne each Easter Monday, in which participants compete to bring the bottle across a stream that separates the villages. The bottle is an old field barrel holding about a gallon of beer.

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