“We hardly know it is Christmas here, but we made it as
happy as we could amongst us. There was not so much firing going on, only a
shot here and there at time just to let them know we were still at war. We had
a football match between the Buffs and our own lot, and we beat them 2-1. That
was the only sport we had. There were no spectators, everybody was playing,
about 25 a side and with the ground being frozen we were all on top of one
another. It was a good job it was misty or the Germans would have given us
football."
(Bradford Weekly Telegraph, 1 January 1915)
