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A century ago on Christmas Day, German and British enemies left their World War I trenches and headed into no-man's-land in a few scattered locations on the Western Front for an unofficial truce among soldiers.
Some eyewitness accounts say they were highlighted by something as remarkable as a few football kick-abouts.
"Suddenly a Tommy came with a football," wrote Lt. Johannes Niemann of Germany, referring to a British soldier. "Teams were quickly established for a match on the frozen mud, and the Fritzes beat the Tommies 3-2."
If not fully-fledged matches, other soldier's diaries and various reports also spoke of balls being kicked about in friendship.
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Wayne Rooney is one of the footballing stars who features in a Uefa video to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the Christmas Truce of 1914
"A huge crowd was between the trenches. Someone produced a little rubber ball so of course a football match started," Lt. Charles Brockbank of Britain's Cheshire Regiment wrote in his diary, which is part of "The Greater Game" exhibit at the National Football Museum in Manchester.
The proponents of the sport have cherished that day as historic proof that there is little that can better bridge man's differences than football.
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