Sikorsky, our photographer, writes :
My parents are lifelong football fans. They have travelled the length and breadth of the country, and sometimes Europe, following their team - through rain and sunshine, good times and bad. Just like countless other die-hard supporters of hundreds of other teams. Now, they are getting on a bit. They are ancient, and doddering, and scarcely able to get out of be
d in the morning. OK, maybe that's an exaggeration (hi Mum and Dad if you're reading!) but they're not quite as up for spending 9 hours on the motorway to get to Hull on a rainy Tuesday night as perhaps they once were. I have had an interest in aerial photography for some time, concentrating mainly on landscape photography. But one day it came to me - why not do the same thing for the football stadiums of England? The greatest challenge for many of these pictures was finding the right means to photograph from on-high. I have stood on roofs, dangled from cranes, sat in planes, helicopters and hot-air balloons, and used zoom lenses as long as your arm. Clubs From Above. I hope these pictures bring as much joy to all the football fans out there as they have to my Mum and Dad.
