Football is the best sport on the planet. Fact. Easy to play by everyone and anyone. Tonight it has been nigh on impossible for me to think of anything to photograph and staggeringly difficult for me to possess enough creativity to photograph something from nothing.
It has been a dull day. Last Tuesday night however I went to watch Stranraer play Elgin. Stranraer are in Division Three of the Scottish League and the locals often ridicule their team. That did not deter me but instead gave me some impetus to see them play. It turned out to be a cracking game too.
Seeing football in real time and standing in the crowd irrespective of the standard is something that everyone should perhaps experience. It was an interesting game possessing some of the laughable mistakes that players in the lower leagues often do but also having enough of the spectacular bursts of sheer talent and enthusiasm that gets exhibited on every football pitch up and down the country.
Stranraer won the game due to a spectacular twenty five yard strike by one of their star players. I decided during the game to photograph their goalkeeper because of the sheer pressure he was under from Elgin during the first half and one superb save that he did.
Goalkeepers are alone sometimes in games where it is easy for them to fall asleep when they must maintain extremely good observation to constantly not be caught off guard. Well I need some sleep as it has been a long weekend.
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