Can we have our ball back please?

[Stevienics]

It seems it all started when we booted a football into no-man's land on Christmas day in 1914.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/...tball-match-with-ball-kicked-from-trench.html

Pity the rag heads don't have a Christmas, or a Christmas day. That's the snag when you war with savages.

 

[Vushtrri]

Good movie on the box the other day about it,,,,,, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424205/

 

[he_who_dares_rodney]

Just about to post that myself
Currently doing the rounds on Film 4
[video]http://www.google.co.uk/url?q=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DNXcseNVZGRM&sa=U&ei=TEzXUIOrFc3Xsga40YDgCw&ved=0CEAQFjAJ&usg=AFQjCNEbV6762m9F89Wk7v-tyQz8vRljrA[/video]

 

[Spearmint]

Pity the rag heads don't have a Christmas, or a Christmas day. That's the snag when you war with savages.

I wouldn't even bother if they did, sneaky blighters would go and rig the ball with an IED....

 

[Sixty Percent Overlap]

Or if you've turned your back on them they'll open up the backstabbing, lying, deceitful cnuts!

 

[mick-a-nick]

Football

Football

There was a bit on Antiques Roadshow on this last night. A bloke had a set of letters and one of them referred to the truce and the football match. Great interest from one of the museums (IWM)

 

[morse1001]

Malcolm Brown wrote à book about thé truce. In one sector, it lasted until Easter!

 

[John Lloyd]

Robbed from the web but I visited this October at Ploegsteert,
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