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{{quote|''Someone said to me, 'To you, football is a [[Matter of Life and Death]]!' and I said 'Listen, it's [[Serious Business|more important than that]]'."''|'''Bill Shankly'''}}
{{quote|''It was elegant. It was beautiful. The game should be beautiful, like a well-executed war.''|'''Mr. Nutt'''
Football is a sport in which players attempt to kick a ball into a goal, mostly without the use of hands. It's also by far the most popular sport in the world. [[The World Cup]] is the most widely-viewed sporting event in the world with an international viewership of hundreds of millions. Football has been used in peace-making in places like Sierra Leone. During the Christmas Truce of 1914, the Germans and British played football. During a couple of cases of going "over the top", British attackers kicked a football towards the enemy lines (it ended up riddled with bullets along with the rest of them). A World Cup qualifying match between Honduras and El Salvador in 1969 was the proximate cause of a war between the two countries that killed around 2,000 people.
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