Spot the ball...

[eggchaserbull]

I'll bet this would have been a difficult Spot the Ball competition. It's almost as though Bob Fosse had taken a training session.

[Marty Kilpeck]

Oct 13, 2024 14:40:35 GMT eggchaserbull said:

I'll bet this would have been a difficult Spot the Ball competition. It's almost as though Bob Fosse had taken a training session.



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Haha, it's like the front cover of a punk album!

[White Lightning]

That is a (sort of) famous HUFC photo that has somehow found its way into the National Gallery in Belgium. It is called the ballet going by memory. I found a bit out about that off an amazing fella who gifted a load of Newcastle photos to Talking Bull.

[White Lightning]

Here goes. This all came about courtesy of a chap called Keith James, a local treasure who back in the Newcastle days was an assistant to local photographer Derek Evans. The below was a couple of years ago.



12 months ago, seven inspiring people were asked to choose their favourite photograph out of the collection of FOMU- Photo Museum in Antwerp - Frank Raes was one of them. Frank Raes is a Belgian sports journalist and sports commentator/presenter, his TV career has since 1988 taken him to various World Cups, European Championships, and even Olympic Games. Some career. Raes is also an avid amateur photographer. He was asked by FOMU the national photo museum of Belgium to come up with his favourite photo from their collection as part of their De keuze van (“The Choice Of”) series.

He happened to choose a 1955 photo out of their archive from a British photographer called Derek Evans. What fascinated Frank about the photo was that it is usual for the players to be looking at the football, however in this photo you have no idea what has happened. Keith James revealed that Derek Evans christened the photo “football ballet” and the player in the middle is Charlie Thompson with the opposing goalkeeper and defender on the left and right respectively. Charlie Thompson, I understand, is comfortably Hereford United’s top scorer of all time. He also sits in an exclusive list of Hereford football names that have been passed down through the generations.




The photo prompted Frank Raes to dig a bit deeper about Derek Evans who he noted was a newspaper photographer with a Welsh coal miner dad from “Herefordshire an English county in the Midlands on the border with Wales”. He commended the way that Derek created a marvellous archive of 1950’s life.

The interview is available at fomu.be/en/watch-read/de-keuze-van-frank-raes.

One thing that stands out in the photo is the bowling green standard Edgar Street pitch which would indicate that it must have been the back end of the summer.

[Incognito]

I may have been at that game.