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Young Palestinians celebrate a goal during an impromptu football match with Israeli troops in the West Bank town of Ramallah in September 2002. At the time, the headquarters of Yasir Arafat were under siege.

It is nearly 100 years since the Christmas Truce, yet the universality of the 'War Game' story and the way in which football brings peoples in conflict together is still relevant today.