[BITList] Christmas truce: a mythical football match revisited 100 years later | World news | The Guardian

[Michael Feltham]

Today, in the Manchester Football Museum, you can view an Officer’s Diary from WWI, in which he states that there was a football knockabout during the short Truce !

Mike
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> http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/18/first-world-war-truce-football-match-replayed-centenary <http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/18/first-world-war-truce-football-match-replayed-centenary>
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> Christmas truce: a mythical football match revisited 100 years later
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> “You know the match never even happened, said the curmudgeonly Aldershot cabby. “Nah, just a myth. Mind you, Jesus wasn’t born on Christmas neither.” He’d still not finished. “And Father Christmas actually used to be green till they turned him red for a Coke ad.”
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> On Wednesday night a football match was played between the British army and German armed forces to commemorate the centenary of the match that was, or wasn’t, played in no man’s land during the first world war Christmas truce.
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> The Game of Truce was held at the Electrical Services stadium, home of Aldershot Town FC. Even those loyal to Aldershot admit the town has seen better days. Shop after shop is boarded up, ageing Gurkhas wander along the streets aimlessly, the sky looks as if it’s never seen blue. Even the front entrance to the 99p shop is locked.
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