{"id":44,"date":"2006-09-18T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-18T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk:80\/paws\/?page_id=44"},"modified":"2007-01-13T07:29:29","modified_gmt":"2007-01-13T06:29:29","slug":"week-37","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=44","title":{"rendered":"Week 37: PSV-Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, 12th September 2006, I achieved an important milestone in my life: to see Liverpool Football Club live. In the first game of this year&#8217;s Champions&#8217; League campaign, Liverpool played in Eindhoven, against the local powerhouse PSV (winner of the Dutch championship the last two years). I had tried for weeks to obtain a ticket through various legitimate means, to no avail. But on the morning of the game, while sitting in a meeting in my office in Eindhoven, I received the joyous news: one of my English friends here in the Netherlands had an extra ticket! <\/p>\n<p>I took no pictures of the actual game&#8211;no point in competing with the pros on the sidelines with their much bigger lenses. Instead, I concentrated on the supporters before and during the match. The weather was good, so most of the pre-game action was outdoors. Here is a very pleased PSV supporter bearing good news to his friends and would-be friends:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/37.jpg\" alt=\"6908\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 24-70mm L Canon, ISO 400)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The police were out in force, as both English and Dutch football supporters have a reputation for violence. Nothing major happened, probably <em>because <\/em>of the heavy police presence. Here are some Liverpool supporters saying &#8220;cheers&#8221; to the police:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/37alt1.jpg\" alt=\"6894\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 24-70mm L Canon, ISO 400)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The police horses were ready for action too:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/37alt2.jpg\" alt=\"6898\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 24-70mm L Canon, ISO 400)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>All those beer cups had to go somewhere:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/37alt3.jpg\" alt=\"6917\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 24-70mm L Canon, ISO 400)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Finally, during the game itself, a display of emotions by one of the Dutch supporters. First, anticipation:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/37alt4.jpg\" alt=\"6926\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 35mm L Canon, ISO 800)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Then, disappointment and anger:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/37alt5.jpg\" alt=\"6927\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 35mm L Canon, ISO 800)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The game ended 0-0, a result which satisfied noone but which did provide Liverpool with a useful away point. And I was happy nonetheless for finally having seen the team I have been supporting since I was 12 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, 12th September 2006, I achieved an important milestone in my life: to see Liverpool Football Club live. In the first game of this year&#8217;s Champions&#8217; League campaign, Liverpool played in Eindhoven, against the local powerhouse PSV (winner of the Dutch championship the last two years). I had tried for weeks to obtain a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":61,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}