Football is back - 3 !!! by phil_howcroft

Football is back - 3 !!!

My final 'Football is back' image to complete the first week of the season.

This is not quite what I had in mind when I visited the Reebok on Sunday to see my team Bolton Wanderers play the richest club in the world (Manchester City).

As part of the pre match entertainment a samba band was 'entertaining' the fans.

What's samba got to do with football I ask you. Well the beautiful game is always best when played by Brasil and Brasil and their fans always do samba at the stadiums...so a samba band on a grey murky Sunday afternoon in Bolton is about as tenuous a link as you could wish for.

I hope I've not lost any credibility on here by posting an image of a scantily dressed samba dancer , but it was something I witnessed and therefore took a shot.

I suppose I posted the image because I like the contrast between the 'excited young lad' and the two rather 'disinterested men' in the background. It's not the best composed image I've ever shot, but it does capture the moment.

As for the match ...

Bolton Wanderers - 2
The richest club in the world funded by Oil Money - 3

We didn't have enough possession over the 90 minutes of the game to sustain any long periods of pressure.



The image is shot outside the stadium ...and the last time I was there (May 2011) , this location looked like this........


http://365project.org/phil_howcroft/365/2011-05-07


Anyway this is my Sunday image !
Great shot Phil, not at all what I was expecting for your football is back 3! The young lad on the right really makes this image for me, the normality of the spectators against the flamboyance of the samba band is just great.
August 23rd, 2011  
Who needs to go to Rio when you've got Bolton? And how come you don't support Nottingham? I nearly took some interesting 'Newcastle supporters drinking at 10am' shots while we were away but after careful consideration put my camera away!
August 23rd, 2011  
haha.. that boy looks a bit too excited...
August 23rd, 2011  
great shot Phil - I agree with Andy, that young lad looks way too excited at a bit of flesh!! Shame about the scoreline but the entertainment looks great fun!
August 23rd, 2011  
Great capture
August 23rd, 2011  
123..Samba!
great shot, shame about the result.
August 23rd, 2011  
Love this shot. I think you did an awesome job capturing a fun moment. So odd to see a Samba dancer at a football game. You have to love it! Well captured.
August 24th, 2011  
That is a fun and good shot. And man are that guy's eyes locked in!
August 24th, 2011  
I think the word is bizarre! I'm also a bit concerned for Big Bird :s
August 24th, 2011  
The young man looks like he would like to join the band (or at least be part of the dancer's retinue!)
August 24th, 2011  
Nice shot Phil, but unlike you I hate footballeven as a kid. So I would rather watch this young lady and ten more like her running round a field than 11 men in shorts kicking a ball. But each to his own good job we all not the same or life would be boreing:-)
August 24th, 2011  
So it had nothing to do with the bikini clad girl then Phil !!! This is not a photo I would have expected to see at a football match, specially in Bolton , but you have caught the atmosphere nicely !! A great stadium you have there I can see it when I go down the M61 to Manchester !
August 24th, 2011  
The eye-line of the 2 'disinterested' blokes tells a story too!
August 24th, 2011  
@judithg Judith , I support the Wanderers because I am a Bolton lad , l left the north west when I graduated from uni' to take a job in Nottingham (changed jobs a few times since , but still live in the great city of Nottingham)
August 24th, 2011  
@tashy ooh tashy, i never thought i'd hear the word 'flamboyance' in one of my photo' :)
August 24th, 2011  
@andycoleborn cheers andy, yes the excitement of youth :)
August 24th, 2011  
@sparkle thanks juliette, the boy seems to be popular on this post :)
August 24th, 2011  
Well there you go - I grew up in Preston and my best dog-walking friend from down the road grew up in Bolton - we like to 'up the accent' when we go out together (though mine is still very Lancashire anyway) !
August 24th, 2011  
@kerristephens cheers kerri :)
August 24th, 2011  
@sleepdozer57 cheers Peter, yes, a bad result against the massives
August 24th, 2011  
@seattle thanks constance, believe me you see some strange sights at English Football grounds :)
August 24th, 2011  
@klemieux ken, lol, well locked in !
August 24th, 2011  
@anron ha ha anita, love your concern :)
August 24th, 2011  
@allie912 allison, i think they have indeed found a new recruit !
August 24th, 2011  
@hobgoblinwychwo yes agree with your comments John :)
August 24th, 2011  
@happypat Pat, I did struggle deciding whether or not to post this picture...as I didn't want it to lose any creditability for posting as juliette states .. @sparkle ...some flesh !!!

The image does seem quite popular though, so I think my concerns were unfounded !
August 24th, 2011  
@robinmersh a good story indeed Robin !
August 24th, 2011  
LOL She is going to catch her death!! Going round Bolton dressed like that..what ever next! Hope she had her eye on that over excited lad there...he could just catch her one! Sory about the result..hey ho...always next week....Ipswich are doing their utmost to get relagated already!
August 25th, 2011  
Looks like loads of fun!!
August 25th, 2011  
Cracking shot Phil - I though it must be Arnold festival! Colours are great and somehow so out of place on a grey day in blighty it is incongruously delightful :-) Sorry to hear the Trotters did not whoop man city, but that is a very respectable score....next time
August 26th, 2011  
Sports wear ad - do you think wiggle do carnival attire?
August 29th, 2011  
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