Good evening at Villa Park – first it looked like only few people would turn up at the protest. But as people started to get off from work, the numbers started to grow – official estimates say 500, but I am sure it was over a 1000. Fans kept the protest clean and there were…
Anyone who lives in Birmingham can not have been ignoring the ongoing managerial discussions between Aston Villa and Birmingham City. The Second City is in turmoil as one club is accused of ‘tapping’ the other ones manager. Fans on both sides are unhappy about the issue. That’s where thing turn positive for me 🙂 As…
Not a huge amount of Sports happening for me over the weekend. Getting back from Hungary on Thursday night, I was right back to work on Friday morning with a six hour stint at an office in Lutterworth. Saturday and Sunday were days to spent not going to events – with the first spent just…
Last full day in Hungary, and one more evening of basketball to go. Finland will meet Ukraine in tonight’s first game and with a win (and Bulgaria beating Netherlands) they will still have a chance to finish second in the tournament. Ukraine want to get at least one win, and the Finns want to finish…
Seven days on the road now – and Monday was the first ‘day-off’ during this week. We took a train from Sopron to Vienna for a day-trip, to see the sights and have a little change of scenery. This is one of the things I love about being on the continental Europe – you walk…
Now – I know I should have gotten this written yesterday… Friday saw the first games of the EuroBasket tournament that I had come cover over here. With the games starting at 6pm, that still left me plenty of time during the day to spend some free-time in the nice summer weather here in Sopron….
After a hectic and eventful Wednesday – it was time to hope for a little less action on Thursday as we made our way to Sopron. Night was spent tossing and turning in a room with an air-con that didn’t seem to cool the room at all, so it was very warm and stuffy in…
What a day…. First flight from Birmingham to Munich was delayed first by 30 minutes, then 45 minutes and eventually departed an hour late. Had a tight change in Munich (1 hrs 25 min) to the Budapest flight, and when we landed the Budapest flight was about to depart in 7 minutes. Luckily we got…
Arrived back home from Portugal on Monday afternoon – picture editing and washing clothes was the name of the game during the few hours of Monday (as well as cooking dinner). Tuesday it was time to start getting ready for the next trip – heading to Hungary for 9 days of EuroBasket qualifying games. Clearing…
Weekend spent in Portugal photographing the Finnish Men’s National team in this years World League openers against Portugal – here’s a little story of the trip. Friday morning flight to Porto – via Zurich, on the first flight I got talking to ‘Pat’ – a Greek guy who was just going back to Greece after…