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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 […]
Last month I photographed the Wales national football team’s final group qualification matches for the 2022 World Cup, against Belarus and Belgium. The win and draw determined that Wales would have a home tie in the semi-final of their World Cup play-off against Austria in March 2022. And if they win that match, another home […]
Six of my seven Wembley match applications had been flatly rejected by UEFA over the course of the tournament. But of course I applied for the Final, Italy against England, because I could. My chances were incredibly slim, to photograph what would be the biggest football match of a generation, the biggest match I would […]
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 […]
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 […]
Boxing doesn’t often crop up on my radar as a sports’ fan or as a photographer. But a local opportunity was recently presented in the form of a Cyclone Promotions ‘Enter The Dragon’ boxing event at the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff. I had never photographed boxing before but the idea appealed, if only to have some boxing […]
The last of my White Hart Lane memories came on April 15th 2017, when I photographed the Premier League match between Tottenham Hotspur and AFC Bournemouth for Prime Media Images. I parked at a school next to the ground, attempted to stretch off the long drive, unpacked my kit and went for a wander. It was just before […]
Around this time last year I blogged in part about walking Cardiff and the general virtues of walking. Twelve months ago I was walking as I did for many years, largely through the urban city centre streets of Cardiff. In it I rambled about time, death, the death of David Bowie, Cardiff and its cranes. [Read […]
The Cardiff Half Marathon is as much a fixture of the Cardiff sporting calendar as any Six Nations rugby match. It may not command as much media attention outside of Wales, but in terms of footfall, both literal and figurative, and in what it brings to the city, it seems a fair match. Weeks in advance […]
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