Sometimes I don’t know what takes me over during a game.
Old Deer Park, Richmond-upon-Thames, TW9
Sometimes I just feel I have moved to a different place and I can make the pass, score the goal or go past my marker at will.
Zinedine Zidane interview (2000)
Filed under Photographs
“You never want to feel you are alone on a football pitch. Support each other.
Millwall FC, The Den, Zampa Road, Bermondsey, Southwark, SE16
That’s what a team is all about. We are united.
Michael Calvin's Family: Life, Death and Football, Millwall FC, The Den, Zampa Road, Bermondsey, Southwark, SE16
From Michael Calvin’s Family: Life, Death and Football (2010)
Taller than a house, the Iron Man stood at the top of the cliff, on the very brink, in the darkness. The wind sang through his iron fingers. His great iron head, shaped like a dustbin but as big as a bedroom, slowly turned to the right, slowly turned to the left.
Herzog & de Meuron’s Allianz Arena, Werner-Heisenberg-Allee 25, Munich, Germany
His iron ears turned, this way, that way. He was hearing the sea. His eyes, like headlamps, glowed white, then red, then infrared, searching the sea. Never before had the Iron Man seen the sea. He swayed in the strong wind that pressed against his back. He swayed forward, on the brink of the high cliff.
From Ted Hughes’ The Iron Man (1968)
Filed under Postcards
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