When Football Was Played During WORLD WAR 1

British and German soldiers famously played football during the 1914 Christmas Truce of World War I. But who won the matches?
MUSIC
Main theme from "Home Alone" composed by John Williams - "Somewhere In My Memory.
Deck the Halls - Instrumental.
SOURCES
Mike Dash. 2011. 'The Story of the WWI Christmas Truce'. Smithsonian Magazine.
Kevin Baxter. 2021. 'Peace for a day: How soccer brought a brief truce to World War I on Christmas Day 1914'. Los Angeles Times.
Ryan Kelly. 2023. 'Christmas truce: Football & fraternity in the World War I ceasefire'. Goal.
Stephen Moss. 2014. 'Truce in the trenches was real, but football tales are a shot in the dark'. The Guardian.
Ian McMullen. 'The Story of the Christmas Truce 1914'. Football and the First World War.

[@suffern63]

The ref was bloody awful and don't get me started on the VAR,how much that not a penalty?

[@I_like-MATH]

is the sainsbury's ads

[@MattsAttack9]

Cheers Sebastian

[@bootleg1362]

Yooooo whos in the thumbnail tho!?!? Austrian painter vs Austrianianian painterrr ? !

[@renktalksball]

Beautiful story about how humans behave even in the darkest of times Merry christmas everyone!

[@Chernochegger]

I heard it was not a formal game. Just some kick about

[@sebball1]

Correct, and I make that clear in this video, which is not exactly meant to be taken entirely seriously.

[@vuur._.]

Cheers my Swedish brother