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.

Last weekend saw the annual Mandy Walker Games at UCLU, a chance for alumni to come back and challenge current students in a variety of sports across our facilities (our own sports ground at Shenley, Bloomsbury Fitness and a couple of others).

I popped in to the fencing at Bloomsbury Fitness and later the men’s basketball at Somers Town Community Sports Centre – you can see a full range of photos from these events in this gallery. While lighting in the sports hall was pretty atrocious, the good news of the day is that the Union beat the alumni!