Albion will commemorate the Christmas Truce.
Image by: Bennett Dean
PUBLISHED
13:48 5th December 2014
by James Hilsum
It promises to be a powerful way to engage and educate young people about such an important moment in our history."
HRH The Duke of Cambridge
HRH The Duke of Cambridge
Brighton & Hove Albion will commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the 1914 Christmas Truce in the Sky Bet Championship match against Derby County at the iPro Stadium on Saturday.
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The 22 players from both teams will pose together with the match officials to create a unique pre-match photograph.
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Clubs competing in the Barclays Premier League, Sky Bet Football League and the second round of the FA Cup will all take part in this pre-match activity between 6th to 8th December to remember one of the most famous moments in the First World War.
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On Christmas Day, both English and German soldiers crossed into ‘no man’s land’ to share an impromptu ceasefire. There have been first-hand accounts of football being played on the battlefield.
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All photos uploaded to social media using #footballremembers will be automatically uploaded to a special website – [url]www.footballremembers.com[/URL].
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The site shall act as a moment of record of football in 2014, a century on from the First World War, and will be preserved for future generations.
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The activity will be a part of 'Football Remembers Week', which takes place between 5th and 14th December. This is a joint collaboration between The FA, the Premier League, the Football League and the British Council, to engage football fans and players about what took place on Christmas Day one hundred years ago on the battlefields in Belgium.HRH The Duke of Cambridge, President of The FA, said: “It promises to be a powerful way to engage and educate young people about such an important moment in our history. We all grew up with the story of soldiers from both sides putting down their arms on Christmas Day, and it remains wholly relevant today as a message of hope over adversity, even in the bleakest of times.”
Fans, teams and schools are also being asked to upload their pre-match pictures to the same site using the hashtag, #footballremembers. Photos from any match of any size can be uploaded, from school to Sunday league fixtures or even kickabouts in the back garden.
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