>I guestimate my exposures, on film, using the old camera I began all this with in 1989. I am not guessing the football we have here in the UK of my birth is VERY special. And which needs me. I believe that.

As ever, my photographs place fans and grounds at the heart of the story, illuminating and celebrating their roles within football culture.





To get the work seen, where I control what is seen, I have always toured my work to public museums and public art galleries, and produced books of that work.





The 'Gallery' section of this website presents around 200 of my best or my favourite pictures over the last 30 years, and you can buy these. You can also buy two of the books I speak of.





I get a lot (some) requests from STUDENTS about how do I do what i do, and I can't answer all the requests so here is a FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS. With answers...





why did you take football as an interest?

I grew up in a world of football - my Dad built a full-sized goal with-nets in our backgarden and sacrificed everything: plants, allotment, greenhouse to do so…I knew he was ‘serious’ about this. All the kids came in off the street to play. And more from further afield - some we didn’t even like much.





After the three disasters surrounding football in the 1980’s, ending with Hillsborough - and the game in disarray - I decided this was my time and this was my subject…that football was serious enough a subject for a serious street photographer, like me.





what made you got into sport photography in the first place?

Football is not just a sport. It’s never ending. It’s all-consuming. It’s about who we are as a people - no other ‘sport’ does this. It’s 131 years of League tables and fixtures year on year, which only War could interrupt. It’s about a test of loyalty - few teams win anything much beyond a clutch of games.









what skills did you have to start with (sport) photography?

My skills as a driver are mirrored in what I can do with a camera. Or vice-versa. I predict what is going to happen next, mostly in measurements of seconds rather than predicting great social trends. It’s about shaping my vision, speedily. Making sense of it and getting that sense right, spot-on. I make it look leisurely...and insist anyone using my images can’t have them ‘for a while’ until I have contemplated their worth. This approach could annoy people. It’s not what most ‘journalists’ do. But I am still of that clan: (sports) photography.





However, exhibitions and books and longer-term deliveries are my goal. I'm just getting warmed up. No retirement for me ever.

For 30 years I have had one 'project’ central to what i do: 'The Homes of Football’. It shall continue the other side of this pandemic, with ever more purpose.