Never forget: Football remembers

Some 98 years have elapsed since British and German troops on the front line emerged from their trenches on that fateful Christmas Day in 1914.
While the Germans lined their trenches with decorations and sang carols, the British responded by running onto no man's land with a ball at their feet and a 'Christmas truce' was born.
The two sides, both enduring its first winter of combat, decided an impromptu football match would be one way to create some camaraderie, Kazinform has learnt from CNN.
It is an event which is still fondly remembered today with the English Premier League's Christmas Truce Tournament bringing the story to the next generation.
This weekend, teams from Belgium, France, Germany and England will take part in a competition to honour those who fell in the Great War.
The tournament will see some of the best players under the age of 12 compete in the Flemish town of Ypres in Belgium, one of the areas to be decimated by fighting and bloodshed.
Football made its own sacrifice to the Great War where more than 8,000 officers and men from the 17th and 23rd Middlesex perished at the Somme alone.
The 'Footballers Battalion' as it was known, included players from a whole host of clubs ranging from Chelsea and West Ham to Clapton Orient, now Leyton Orient.
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