Just a quick note to say to everyone Merry Christmas. I probably won't be posting until after the Leicester game, and obviously that's after Christmas, so yeah, have a good one all!
In the Caribbean. Keeping up with results. Well done City. Keep the run going. Merry Christmas to you all. Hope weather improves and that we stuff Lesta. Cheers
Merry Christmas all Y'all! And a Humdinger of a 2013! Am up for the Xmas hols and a mate of mine has given me his season pass for the Leicester & Leeds games. Up The Tigers!!
I mainly lurk and post only occasionally but I love this forum and enjoy the banter, the nonsense, Mussie's crap about the BBC, the ku--de- ta's and even Percy's deluded posts. I'm in a job that requires the ultimate in PC behaviour - so this place is my guilty pleasure ( cheers Erik). So, to everyone a very sincere Merry Christmas and a really Happy & peaceful New Year. Cheers fellas UTT!
**** off!! No mention of miff?? Merry christmas to all. If I offended anyone this year I apologise its nothing personal, apart from tickles obviously.
Ha ha Nice one Chazz Banged to rights on that omission (sorry Miff) and yours for that matter Chazz. I have to look at Miff's great posts off campus and on my own MacBook. Otherwise a no go ... Looking forward to Christmas Day's Miff contribution... Cheers Lincolntiger
Silent night, goalie night: Letter tells of World War One Christmas truce football match Staff Sergeant Clement Barker wrote the note to his brother four days after the game in 1914, saying a German messenger crossed No Manâs Land on Christmas Eve to arrange the ceasefire A soldier's letter describing the extra*ordinary Christmas Day football match in the First World War has been discovered. Staff Sergeant Clement Barker wrote the note to his brother Montague four days after the game in 1914, saying the temporary ceasefire began when a German messenger crossed No Manâs Land on Christmas Eve to arrange it. He wrote: âA messenger come over from German lines and said that if (our side) did not fire, they (the Germans) wouldnât in the morning (Xmas day).â It was agreed, and the letter goes on to give a fascinating insight into the famous, brief truce. âA German looked over the trench â no shots â our men did the same, and then a few of our men went out and brought the dead in and buried them and the next thing a football kicked out of our Trenches and Germans and English played football.â The soldiers also shared carols, shook hands and exchanged cigarettes. Sgt Barker added: âWe have conversed with the Germans and they all seem to be very much fed up and heaps of them are deserting. Some have given themselves up as *prisoners, so things are looking quite rosy.â Greetings: The note was sent to his family from the trenches BNPS Sporting: A drawing of the game Getty But the war went on for four more years, with the loss of 10 million lives. The letter from Ypres was found among papers by Sgt Barkerâs nephew, Rodney Barker, 66. Rodney, of Fleet, Hants, said: âHe is talking about clearing away bodies one moment and football the next. At the time it was hushed up because troops werenât supposed to fraternise with the enemy.â Sgt Barker, from Ipswich, joined the army in 1902 at the age of 18. He served with the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards and died aged 61. The letter featured on the BBCâs Antiques Roadshow. James Taylor, a historian at the Imperial War Museum, said the letter was âvery significantâ. He added: âTo have an account surface after not being seen for almost a century is remarkable. âThe letter is of great historical value. This is the last bit of chivalry of the First World War. There is something appealing about the idea that nations could settle their differences in sport rather than war.â http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/letter-tells-of-world-war-one-1504190
