It is again quite late that I post this photo – my only excuse is that events overtook me and I’ve been so busy since the Champions League final that I just haven’t had time to select images to post!

Anyway, you may recall that this year’s Champions League final was between Barcelona and Man United – the latter team supported by a flatmate of mine. (I personally don’t care much which team wins where – so long as I enjoy watching the game itself, I’m ok. None of this overdone tribal nonsense.) It wasn’t, I recall, a particularly thrilling match. Man Utd never really seemed to put much effort in – Barca were out of their league.

This being before my nifty fifty suffered its little accident, I managed to get away with shooting in really low light at the Duck & Dive bar at ULU, and up close to those sitting around me – the Canon 50mm f/1.8 II has a minimum focusing distance of only 45cm, which can come in really handy in situations like this – a moment where it looked, briefly, like Man Utd might actually have been capable of playing some decent football. Alas for my flatmate, the moment passed.