*This video is based on an actual incident during World War I when, on Christmas Eve, some members of the waring British and German forces lay down their arms, came out of their trenches and joined in a game of football, forgetting for a brief time, the bitter hostilities that divided them. The spirit of Christmas prevailed. Sainsbury's, a large chain of high-quality supermarkets in the UK, produced the video with the cooperation of the Royal British Legion and aired it as an advertisement on TV there in 2014, 100 years after the incident. |