Photos in Football Grounds (Personally taken!)

[Baltimore]

Hello All,

We have all admired some great professionally taken photos of our football favourites.

What has been your "personal best" in the photography department?

Hopefully my humble offering will upload..to kick off the debate.

Cheers,

Ian

Ps the match above is US Boulogne FC who play in the French Third Division.

[Pete’s Picture Palace]

Nice idea, Baltimore.

I took my box brownie to 2 Palace home games when we got promoted to the 1st Division in 1969. Couldn't be bothered after that!

Palace 3 v Stoke 1 6th September 1969





Palace 0 v West Bromwich Albion 3 20th September 1969

[Baltimore]

Hello Pete,

These are superb....in so many ways.....not just because of Jeff "The King" Astle is featured.

Why didn`t we do it more often? well I guess the answer is the film & film processing costs in the day.

Probably a weeks pocket money, or more....plus "tut..tutting" from Parents etc.

However they are pure nostalgia for those of a certain age. Unique in the true sense of the word.

Were we committing some kind of offence or bye-law. Indeed are we today, or has the advent of smart phones meant that the greedy owners have given up?

Anyone know the answer?

[Pete’s Picture Palace]

Yes, back then I only got enough pocket money to go to football once a fortnight. Films & developing would have cost quite a bit in proportion to my income so that would have put me off. I think I took them with the intention of selling some at school but nobody was interested!

Also, my camera was old-fashioned and very bulky, a cousin gave it to me when I was about 11 - I didn't get a new, smaller one till I started at work when I was 17 or 18 and by then I really couldn't be bothered.

[kenners46]

Nice pics Pete, there was a guy I worked with who took a video camera or cine camera in those days and taped a lot of the promotion game versus Fulham and put it on VHS but had temporarily lost it...ive lost contact with him and hope to bump into him at a re-union one day and for him to say I can borrow it

[littlewiggy]

Made the long trek to Gillingham for a night game in April 1986, the penultimate match of the season when County had to get a result to have any chance of avoiding the drop.
No mean feat considering the Gills were chasing promotion and hadn't lost at home for over two years.

There were only about eight Newport fans there, and we all sat in their old main stand thanks to the players giving us comps, as was the norm back then.

I had one of those new-fangled Kodak 'Disc' cameras, which were terrible things, but seemed state of the art at the time. When the teams were due out, I strolled out of the stand and walked to the edge of the tunnel, amazed that nobody was challenging me or stopping me.

So despite the crap camera, I was well chuffed at the time with these photos of my lads emerging from the tunnel ... (including Tony Pulis with hair!) ...

* We also won 1-0 with a 91st minute Linden Jones pile-driver!!

[Baltimore]

Did you stay up?

You deserved it after that great tale.

Cheers.

[littlewiggy]

This one's for Leslie, County Reserves vs. United's Reserves at Somerton in 1982 ... Mark Hughes and Remi Moses in the foreground, Arthur Graham (I think?) in the background ... (United won 6-0) ...

[Pete’s Picture Palace]

I got the idea from my next-door neighbour. He and his dad used to go to all the games, home & away, and the dad took his camera and also sometimes a movie camera (Super 8 or something - some of that footage is on the Centenary DVD).

He must have taken loads of photos over the years - but these are the only 2 I've got - taken at Shrewsbury Town on 7th October 1961.

Ronnie Allen followed by Brian Lewis



George Petchey and Vic Rouse

[littlewiggy]

Baltimore wrote:

Did you stay up? You deserved it after that great tale. Cheers.

We did Balti, we drew 0-0 at Blackpool on the Saturday and stayed up whilst both Cardiff & Swansea went down to Div 4.
So the following season was the only year ever we were Wales' top league club, although the joy was short lived, we finished bottom that year and went bust soon after!

How much better do b&w photos look compared to colour?
Pete's photos are wonderful.

[manchesterunitedman1]

My meagre offerings:

https://flic.kr/p/9KSoit
https://flic.kr/p/9KSm5T
https://flic.kr/p/eixRRX