Irish singer Dermot Kennedy gets to grips with England’s Jack Wilshere during the Soccer Aid charity match for Unicef at Old Trafford, Manchester
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1984. Appalled by a BBC news report about the Ethiopian famine, Boomtown Rat Bob Geldof calls Ultravox’s Midge Ure. Together they devise the modern template for the charity single. They will form a supergroup of the era’s biggest talents (and Marilyn) and call it Band Aid.
2025. A creaking Old Trafford opens its doors for a mixed-gender game between footballers and celebrities, to raise money for Unicef. Bella Ramsey, 5ft 1in star of The Last Of Us, attempts to close down Nemanja Vidic. The bloke from Baby Reindeer is marking one of One Direction. It can only be Soccer Aid.