5 World War One football stories you need to know about

Walter Tull, one of Britain's first black footballers, played for Northampton Town and Tottenham. He died a hero at the Battle of the Somme in 1918.

A memorial in the village of Flers to the players of Clapton Orient who served with the 17th battalion Middlesex Regiment at the Battle of the Somme.

This statue outside the Britannia in Stoke commemorates the kickabout between the trenches that is said to have happened on Christmas Day in 1914.

French and British troops played football together behind Ypres in 1915.

Sheffield United won the last FA Cup (beating Chelsea 3-0 in the final) before the tournament was abandoned for the rest of the duration of the war.