Madchester? I’m f@*!in’ livid!
As many of you know, I LOVE football. Everything about it excites me, be it adding new parts to your kit, learning new grooves or finally nailing a fill you’ve been working on for a while… Erm.. Hang on. That’s drumming. Oh, FOOTBALL. That’s the one I don’t like at all. Pushing this from my [...]
Euro-ver 2008
The final job of the trip arrived yesterday with France v Italy. Never having seen Italy play before and only having heard the old stories of their “interesting” techniques, I was stunned at how ridiculous their diving is. The game looked more like an am-dram performance. Every few seconds, a player in white would collapse [...]
The Lagerback endurance test
Another day, another press conference in the media tent in Lugano. It really is like some kind of mental test to see how many times you can shoot the same person with the same backdrop in the same tent saying the same thing to the same people and still try to think up something different. [...]
Cock, Arsene and smokin’ dutch babes
What better way to start the shooting of my penultimate game than with a bunch of cigar-chewing blokes in drag and a French man showing off his cock. Marvellous.. At least this time, not only were there goals scored (LOTS of goals, thanks to a formidable show from the Dutch team..) but I was also [...]
This one time at Swede camp..
Another day, another visit to the Swedish training camp for my daily breakfast of crusty bread with some kind of salami. Thankfully, I just discovered that the guest-house that I’m staying at serves fantastic food so my evenings are no longer spent searching the area for decent fodder. All talk today was about a bust-up [...]
Trampled underfoot..
So the miles rack up and the EUROs plod on. After last night’s frantic battle to see who could be less inspiring to shoot between France and Romania in Zurich, I’m making my way back down to Lugano to shoot fans watching tonight’s match at an outdoor arena. As the thunder clouds rumble outside my [...]
See Bre Free
Kilometres! The measurement of choice for the MTV generation! Gasp as the units fly past! Laugh as the satnav talks in metres for once rather than “yards”! (I mean, WHO knows how far a yard is?) Feel all tough like Kris Kristofferson in “Convoy” as what was only a quite short journey feels like a [...]
Czech mate
My first of four matches arrived today and I was dumped squarely in the deep end of learning with remote goal-mouth cameras on pocket wizards and VPN-based remote editing software. If that means nothing to you, don’t worry, that’s the last time I’ll mention it. Suffice to say that the remotes didn’t work so I [...]
Swiss Chores
Anyone who knows me well will be aware of my huge “love” of football *cough* so being asked to head out to Europe for 15 days to cover the UEFA EURO 2008 event had given me sleepless nights for some time. A wonderfully stressful combination of visiting new areas, covering a sport I don’t really [...]
