The beautiful game

Tonight I honed in on the benkske sponsored by the local football team, Willem II.

It's a difficult one to photograph; backs onto a building which is not particularly picturesque, on the other side is a lovely theatre, housed in a listed building. A lovely backdrop, but difficult to get both benkske and building in full shot. Shame.

Took a few shots, wasn't particularly over-enamoured with the results, so cycled futher down the street to take a few photographs of a hippo in a car instead.

Suddenly, a little girl appeared in view, she was playing, and would you believe it, with a football!

She jumped onto the benkske, dribbled the ball a bit, kicked it upwards, then towards the theatre, went to retrieve it, cupped it under her arm, walked along the benkske in a very girly way, shouted 'mama' at the woman in the shop, pouted a bit when she was ignored, half-heartedly played with the ball again.

A girl. Playing with a football. On a club bench.

BACK OF THE NET!

Here's a great song about the beautiful game.

[On edit: I like this [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsh2bK09t34]one [/url]too, if only for the Barnes rap]