Over from the enemy trenches, just nine months into the First World War, there came a German voice asking the urgent question: Who won the FA Cup?
The moment Tommies and Jerries briefly united in their love of football has been revealed in a cache of letters that has come to light 107 years later.
Sapper Thomas Winter of 456th (West Riding) Field Company, Royal Engineers, told his sister Mary about it in one of a series of letters he wrote to her from the Western Front between May 1915 and October 1916.