Hey, I was there!
"An illuminated Emirates Stadium at night during a match between Arsenal and Crystal Palace, London":
[Photo © Jason Hawkes]
No, I'm not a regular. My football-mad Belgian brother-in-law had never been to an English League match, and, brought up on a belief in the unrivalled passion of the English game, was keen to experience the atmosphere. So off we went. Unfortunately, though, the Emirates is not known as "The Library" without good reason. If it wasn't for the visiting Palace supporters the game - at least in the first half, before we scored - would have been played in a funereal silence. We could have been watching King Lear. Given the current drama surrounding a possible end to the long reign of Arsene Wenger, perhaps, in a way, we were.
From a gallery of aerial shots of London and the UK by photographer Jason Hawkes.
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