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Dear Harry, Firstly, thanks for everything. There’s no way you won’t be a huge loss to Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. As a fan, I would have much preferred you to go to Real Madrid, the true cream of European football where you deserve to play and win the big trophies, perhaps alongside an England starlet […]
About Ukraine… They came to Cardiff bearing blue and yellow flags with assorted messages: from the names of devastated home towns and simple words in support of their army, to the more pointed ‘Russian war ship go f*ck yourself’. They wore traditional dress and included the very young and the old. They chanted the names […]
The first football through my lens in 2020 arrived in the form of a grassroots football photography commission. Its location was a sprawl of Cardiff council pitches and an old stomping ground of mine, Trelai Park. A few football playing memories came flying back. My memory bank of playing football is substantial. From primary school […]
Cardiff City return to the Premier League this weekend after securing promotion with a second place finish in the Sky Bet Championship last term. The primary objective this time around, just like their last time in the top flight during the 2013/14 season, will be to stay up. Last time they failed and were some […]
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Wembley Woe for Tottenham
1st May 2018
by Mark Hawkins
A couple of weeks ago I took another late season trip to London to photograph a Tottenham match for Prime Media Images. Twelve months ago, my April trip was something of a pilgrimage to photograph a first and last match at White Hart Lane, the football ground of Tottenham Hotspur I had visited on countless […]
Followers of Irish sport are no strangers to Cardiff, but this final World Cup European Qualification Group match between the two national football teams promised to be a special occasion. The Six Nations Rugby calendar brings thousands across the Irish Sea on a regular basis, while more come for club rugby matches and occasional friendlies. […]
The UEFA Champions League came to Cardiff over May and June 2017. It was an unforgettable period for the city from the moment a dragon appeared embedded on Cardiff Castle walls in mid-May, and I was lucky enough to have a front row seat for most of the events. This was a huge thrill for […]
This blog post reflects on personal memories of White Hart Lane, the home ground of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, which the side will leave at the end of this 2016/17 season. My grinning 12 year-old face reflects back from a shopfront window. We’re walking away from the stadium, down the Tottenham High Road, among masses of my […]
Welsh sport is a regular focus of Composed Images. The hunt for publications is never easy and often fruitless. But it’s usually interesting. I doggedly persist. Not cool to say, but this is partly for the love of it – for the stories, the people and passion it evokes. It’s partly for the dim hope […]
Remember Wales in Euro 2016? Bale, Ramsey, Robson-Kanu’s turn, Allen, Ledley, “Together Stronger”, all that. The 2016/17 football season is now dawning. Over the coming weeks, fans of Swansea, Cardiff, Newport, Wrexham will return to the weekly grind. Hope, elation, anger and despair: a gamut of emotions that typify being a fan. Football moves fast. […]
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