life through a lense
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
the "bad"
"the bad"
yes it has to be gordon the asshole strachan,now the manager of "celtic" football club glasgow" i 1st met him in coventry when he played one night for the reserves(coventry city),it was a night match under floodlights,the telegraph in coventry asked me to go.
the pre match pics never went down very well,so i haunted the guy all night getting every pic i could of him in action,i got back to the telegraph that night and left proofs for the 1st edition.
the way the telegraph portrade the pics and story,never done me any fuckin credit,maybe it was bad light but! i had a kool shot of him in a tackle ,his veins were popping out his legs.awrite!! the camera never lies(true) it made him look like shit.....
were u passed it gordie??(not my view) the telegraph (coventry)....
it never stopped there,as i used to cover local sport i went to a cup final in wellesbourne(yes gordon remember that one).. :-), i chased you and the good wife down the hill and snapped you getting into your wee jeep!!
yes its me alan watson, the guy u told to piss off one night at a reserve match at highfield road
coventry!!,i only asked for your pic!!
numb nuts!!!
midweek pink photographer.....now back in scotland :-)
the good the bad and the ugly!!!
the good
another diary. hey ive met a few good/bad/ and pure fuckin ugly guys in my career,hey ok am no a picasso myself but!!,it was my job!! maybe the best guy i ever came across was the 1996 embassy darts world champion (stevie the bronze adonnis"beaton),he came from southam warwickshire/just round the corner from coventry,and i know he does alot of work for charity(the good guy) it was the day of the final against some welsh twat (ritchie burnett) what a cocky wee asshole he was.due to stevie being a warwickshire guy ,then the coventry telegraph was well up for a picture special,i covered some local football that week-end then done a 120mph dash down to frimley green, my press pass was all organised.........in my bag? a nikon f4 various lenses/my cannon eos 1nrs/ a metz flash gun&about 12 rolls a film./80./200 lense/300 f2.8/ monopod/and took my father in law dennis to carry my bags! well it was just an excuse to get him in for free
:-)....... i was shown into the press room.....woooooo lovely looking girls passing cigs about from embassy(thats all stopped now,boy were they fit :P
i did get my picture special/the fuckin hard way
stevie won the match as the press pack swarmed the front of the stage during the presentation/every national and local paper was in attendance,big aldo here was shut out!, i couldnt get near the front................... up ures a thot!
the bratt pack as i called them were in front of the main table shooting towards the stage and i grabbed a chair and jumped over the pack ,on top of the table getting the best pics in the house...(he who dares aldo) i got away with it.....if a photographer needs a pic that bad ,he will get it trust me
coming up the bad!!
