The Hare Pie Scrambling & Bottle Kicking tradition is an event held in Leicestershire on Easter Monday.
Do you know: The bottle kicking is actually a special football match played with small beer barrels used as balls.
This tradition involves a Hare Pie procession comprising individuals in unique costumes leading the procession, including a man in green carrying a metal hare atop a pole, a lady in ancient clothing with a basket of penny loaves, men in football t-shirts and lastly a band with bagpipes and drums. The football match succeeding it is played across two streams and obstacles.
