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Mark Holtz (1993) arranged with Sainsbury’s Hanley to provide bars of
commemorative chocolate, seen in a famous Christmas advertisement
portraying the 1914 truce football match, for the Keele team to give to
their German counterparts. The Aachen players presented the Keele
players with “Aachener Printen”; traditional Christmas cakes from the
Aachen Christmas market. The Keele players invited the German team
to Keele to replay Operation Friendship in 2015 where they would
compete for a commemorative leather football signed by both teams
and presented to Aachen. Operation Friendship fully earned its name
as the teams met together again in the heart of the ancient city to
revel in its Christmas market, voted the second-best in Europe in 2014.
During their return journey the Keele team made a detour to Tyne
Cot War Cemetery, near Ypres, Belgium, where they laid a wreath
and held an act of remembrance.
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Keith Harrison
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