How many of the fallen were footballers?
A Colonel of the Grenadier Guards signs The Ball
Would these people have become great footballers if they hadn’t sadly died in the first world war?
Posted by Christian
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Piers Gibbon says:
June 6th, 2006 at 10:44 am
what a pointless waste of young Gibbons
There’s always a few of them on every war memorial
irv says:
June 6th, 2006 at 8:30 pm
that’a bit f*****g depressing
Christian says:
June 7th, 2006 at 1:05 am
irv, I couldn’t agree more — but read (and watch) subsequent posts for lighter notes all round. Ypres was a difficult place to be; steeped as it is in a history that most of us would probably rather forget but which I believe we are duty-bound to remember.