Category Archives: Fans and football culture

Football photography of the year awards 2012/13

Welcome to my inaugural football photography of the year awards. I decided to come up this utterly meaningless award to recognise the best contributions that photography has made towards capturing the beauty of our beloved national sport. I hope that this … Continue reading

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Three views of Italian football: the supporters club, the local team, and the arena.

I recently hooked up with a friend who gave me some photos from a trip to Italy in 2005. We were visiting a mutual friend in Rome, via his home town of Agnone, a small town in the hills of … Continue reading

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It’s time for standing to return

If you’ve recently watched a professional football match anywhere in England, the chances are you’ll hear the away fans mocking the passive support of the locals at some point during the game. It’s a standard refrain, the irony being that … Continue reading

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Halloween special featuring Andy Cole

This picture sums up the worst feeling in football – the agony of the chance gone begging. It makes ‘The Scream‘ look like Mr Happy. Poor Chris Iwelumo; the expression on his face is one of pure fear. He knows … Continue reading

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Racism: a rant

This isn’t going to be an attempt to show my deep understanding of racism, nor some pseudo intellectual lecture about how we need to understand Serbia. It’s just a rant setting out how I feel about racism in this country, … Continue reading

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