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    The Greater Game: A history of football in World War I
    The Greater Game: A history of football in World War I
    The Greater Game: A history of football in World War I
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    The Greater Game: A history of football in World War I

    By National Football Museum and Alexander Jackson

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    The Greater Game is a major exhibition (December 2014–September 2015) by the National Football Museum exploring the history of English football in the First World War. It brings together previously unseen material from private and public collections to explore the impact of the war on clubs, players and communities. Football's wartime story, both at home and abroad, offers a fascinating and moving insight into the impact of the First World War on our national game. This publication to accompany the exhibition features illustrated highlights together with specially commissioned articles by leading writers and historians.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateDec 18, 2014
    ISBN9781784420581
    The Greater Game: A history of football in World War I

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      The Greater Game - National Football Museum

      Williams

      In 1914 King George V became the first reigning monarch to attend an FA Cup Final. The people’S game now had the royal seal of approval.

      INTRODUCTION

      IN THE POPULAR IMAGINATION Association Football is indelibly connected to the First World War through games during the Christmas Truce and troops advancing behind a football. However, there is much more to the story. From the controversy of the 1914–15 professional season to the Footballers’ Battalion and the rise of the women’s game, football offers a fascinating insight into the impact of the war on British society.

      Football also offers a powerful connection between past and present. The vast majority of the seventy-three clubs that played in the Football League and Southern League are still with us today, watched by over a million spectators each week. The continuity of these clubs provides a unique and direct link to the experiences of ordinary people across the nation during the war, both at home and at the front.

      This book has two components. Firstly, it features essays by four leading historians to introduce some of the important research that has been undertaken into football during the First World War. Secondly, it tells the stories behind fifteen objects from the collections of the National Football Museum and other museums, libraries and private individuals. Some tell personal stories, others inform us about the broad impact of the war but all, we hope, show the value and significance of material objects in connecting us with the past.

      In closing, it should be added that this book marks not the end of a journey of discovery but, we hope, the start. The story of football and footballers in the First World War is yet to be fully told. We hope that this book will not just inform but encourage others to explore the history of the game and the men and women who played or watched it.

      Andy Pearce

      Head of Creative Programmes, National Football Museum, Manchester

      In 1913 Britain renewed its diplomatic agreement with France, better known as the Entente Cordiale. The Surrey FA celebrated this with a match against a team from Paris.

      THE 1914–15 SEASON

      Matthew Taylor

      ‘Any sport that can minimise the grief, help the nation to bear its sorrow, relieve the oppression of continuous strain, and save the people at home from panic and undue depression, is a

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