Remembrance Sunday - War & Football

Fans and volunteers clear debris from Millwall’s Den following a war-time air raid.As we pause today to remember the fallen of two World Wars who fought to preserve the freedom we all enjoy, it’s a good time to reflect on the effects war on football the positive role it had to play even in times of strife and conflict.

It’s clear to say the game rolled on, though not always smoothly, throughout all its challenges of the past 100 or so years. Where coronavirus succeeded for a few months this year, war was unable ever to bring a complete cessation to professional football.

The importance of the game in many people’s lives is not as recent a discovery as it is in North America for instance. In…