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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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Hunting in pairs: Ivan Zamorano and Marcelo Salas, Chile

Time to go back to the 90’s again for some HOT FRONT TWO action, this time courtesy of Chile’s finest, Ivan Zamorano and Marcelo Salas (AKA ‘El Matador’). Chile has a reasonably well established football history; the national team participated … Continue reading

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Serie A: a more sensible approach to transfers?

George Orwell wrote that Italians are incapable of doing anything without making a deafening noise, and he kind of has a point. Italy is pretty mental, but it works in its own way. Take the transfer market in Italian football (tenuous … Continue reading

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New in Top Five – improvised goal scoring

He can’t do much with that pass, can he? Oh. A new top five, featuring this ridiculous goal from Zlatan Ibrahimovic against Bologna. If it was anyone else you’d think this was too lucky to include. He meant it, though. … Continue reading

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