WWI Christmas truce matches 'to be replayed'

[Jimbuna]

Looking at football hooliganism these days there's a chance to be more violence now than what there was back then :)


Football matches played during the Christmas truce of World War I could be recreated for next year's centenary celebrations.
Ministers are working on plans to commemorate the anniversary with a match on the battlefields of Flanders.
They are in discussion with the Football Association and the National Children's Football Alliance.
The unofficial truce took place at several places across the Western Front on Christmas 1914.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21393377

[em2nought]

Hardly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayHVaaW1a60

[Oberon]

Would be nice for a replay. Rather than professional footballers though it should be done with regular soldiers or perhaps soldiers who have suffered injuries, like the chaps who did the Dakka rally. :yep:

[Jimbuna]

Would be nice for a replay. Rather than professional footballers though it should be done with regular soldiers or perhaps soldiers who have suffered injuries, like the chaps who did the Dakka rally. :yep:

Agreed....and making loads of money for charities :yep: