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football culture
Football lovers usually have a specific personal place where, for them, football belongs. This place is often where it first kicked in, that football obsession, or where it was steadily nurtured over a childhood. You often see television features where players are taken back to their roots, illustrating their rags to riches stories, and asked […]
Football photography sometimes seems like a ridiculous, unprofitable and sentimental enterprise. It’s incredibly competitive and massively popular, the marriage of two common passions: football and photography. Lots of people are obsessive about both. Canon and Nikon are two of the most dominant brands in the world for a reason. There’s often the idle thought that images […]
Most saturday afternoons of my young adulthood were spent playing football at low amateur levels. Usually my sides were beaten, often embarrassed and sometimes utterly humiliated by teenagers half my age. On rare occasions my team won – there was one memorable cup final (we lost heroically), and one or two promotions. But I never played […]