JONATHAN McEVOY: As they gather to 'defend' the Cenotaph, do these 'football supporters' really know...

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Sport's path should be to act as a balm, rather than a vessel for aggravation. Mail Sport exclusively revealed. DOMINIC KING: I don't understand what football is anymore -There are two ways of doing this. Two ways of showing some consideration for the dead of the world wars of the last century and other conflicts.

Football's stance cannot be hidden from public view, however much the bureaucrats running the game would like to believe it possible. That much was illustrated last month when the FA refused to commemorate the brutal murder of Israelis by Hamas by lighting the Wembley arch.The decision had been taken not to light up the Wembley arches in honour of the Israeli dead after a Hamas attack

'Twice in a single generation,' said Winston Churchill in his speech to the US Congress, 'the catastrophe of world war has fallen upon us.' But on how football was damaged by losing forever a swathe of society, you might reasonably ask how well rugby has fared since. Just one World Cup triumph in the most lavishly funded union in the world, is the answer. So two fingers to that theory!

Tottenham staff signed up and 11 perished. Newcastle lost seven men. Hearts paid a terrible price on the first day of the Somme, that most awful of dawns on July 16, 1916. Harry Wattie, Duncan Currie and Ernie Ellis all fell. Crushingly, Paddy Crossan was put down for a leg amputation. He begged his surgeon: 'I need my legs, I'm a footballer.' He died aged 22.

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