There have been a number of memorable Peace v War football matches over the years, with terrific performances from players including the Dalai Lama, Mahatma Gandhi and the eminent Prussian military strategist Carl von Clausewitz (or so the names on the back of the players’ jerseys would have you believe).
But the most crushing victory remains the first, the 15-0 hammering by the University of Bradford’s peace studies department over Kings College’s war studies department.