Tag Archives: football

Nov 27 2023
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Daily Post, Sport

Old Earth, Sunday afternoon

Sunday 26th November 2023, 3.10pm (day 4,476)

Old Earth football, 26//11/23

It’s been a while since the ‘pure football’ post went up, but what the hell, Old Earth — the ground of Huddersfield Amateur FC — has good landscape potential; in fact, the ground’s featured on here twice before, and constitutes the entirety of appearances for the town of Elland (because of course Huddersfield Amateur don’t play in Huddersfield). Sunday afternoon and the women take centre stage: visitors Golcar United, on the ball here in green and black, won this encounter 3-2. The focus seems to have worked out nicely on this shot.

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Nov 05 2023
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Marley Stadium, Keighley

Saturday 4th November 2023, 3.25pm (day 4,454)

Marley Stadium landscape, 4/11/23

It’s Saturday, it’s in the region of 3pm, there’ll be a few football matches going on around the place I’m sure. The Marley Stadium in Keighley isn’t the most comfortable of venues but the backdrop’s pretty reasonable.

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Oct 25 2023
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Danish guys hang out

Tuesday 24th October 2023, 4.30pm (day 4,443)

FC København fans, 24/10/23

In Manchester, at some point in most weeks in the autumn there will be an influx of visitors from some European place or other, because either United or City will be at home in the Champions League — or lately, if it’s United, some lesser competition, but they did make the CL this time round. Today it was the fans of FC København (or Copenhagen if you like). They seemed an agreeable enough bunch, but didn’t see a win: United took the game 1-0.

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Oct 14 2023
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Daily Post, Portrait, Stranger

In the food queue, Avro FC

Friday 13th October 2023, 7.35pm (day 4,432)

Food queue, Avro FC, 13/10/23

A Friday night out, for me and for them. And why not spend it at a football match. It was damn cold though: as 5ºC seemed a reasonable estimation I’d say it was about 15ºC cooler than my last one, on Sunday. We all needed some warm food.

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Oct 09 2023
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Hackney Marshes: temple of football

Sunday 8th October 2023, 10.50am (day 4,427)

Hackney Marshes, 8/10/23

Many places describe themselves as the Home of Football or something similar, but Hackney Marshes in London has as good a claim as any. 88 football pitches make this probably the largest single centre for football in the whole world. About 30 of them were being used today by a diverse range of teams including UK Moldova FC, FC Karpaty, Flamengo, Limehouse Tigres. The sun was shining. You have your Mecca I’m sure, perhaps this is mine.

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Oct 01 2023
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Denholme United

Saturday 30th September 2023, 2.25pm (day 4,419)

Denholme United, 30/9/23

22 men kicking a pig’s bladder (well, originally) around a muddy field, in the rain, up on a Yorkshire moor. But you know I like this kind of thing. Today, courtesy of Denholme United — the ones in yellow.

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Sep 27 2023
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The Moon and the turnstiles

Tuesday 26th September 2023, 10.00pm (day 4,415)

Spotland turnstiles, 26/9/23

Football matches are finishing later and later, now this whole ‘add on every second that players spend rolling around on the floor’ thing has kicked in. Rochdale v Chesterfield is still going on behind me at this point, even at 10pm, but I had to leave before the end to catch the train. Anyway, all of this is irrelevant to what I think is quite a pleasing shot of the moon riding on its little cloud.

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Sep 04 2023
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Wembley FC mural

Saturday 2nd September 2023, 2.55pm (day 4,391)

Wembley FC mural, 2//9/23

Wembley FC do not play at Wembley Stadium — though you can see that from their Vale Farm ground about a mile away. Nevertheless, they give good art work, even if the subject matter, going on the dates, is a tragic one.

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Aug 23 2023
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Bolton Lads & Girls Club

Tuesday 22nd August 2023, 8.55pm (day 4,380)

Bolton LGC, 22/8/23

This is the kind of photo that only really works if I’ve got the pitch truly horizontal; I think I have. There wasn’t much else to this venue apart from this view taken as I was leaving, but it sums it up reasonably well.

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Aug 16 2023
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Daily Post, Portrait, Sport, Stranger

The crowd at Trafford FC

Tuesday 15th August 2023, 8.00pm (day 4,373)

Crowd at Trafford, 15/8/23

I said yesterday that grim as it was, the forecast was for improvement, and the sun duly shone on me and 309 other people who spent their Tuesday evening at the ground of Trafford FC, a few miles west of Manchester city centre. Perhaps not the biggest club located in their metropolitan borough (I’m sure most people could name the biggest if they thought about it for a minute): but a friendly one. I chose this shot today because of the excellent rim-light, but also the woman laughing in the middle. At least — I think she’s laughing.

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