On The Common: Sunday Evenings Are Reserved For Football

Oct 31

Oct 31 On The Common: Sunday Evenings Are Reserved For Football

Sunday evenings are reserved for football. For the past 15 years, I’ve been playing football with pretty much the same people, in Woowlich Common, where I grew up. Before the era of smartphones, we knocked on people’s doors to see if they were in and gather enough numbers to play a game, staying out at the cage until dark and now the event is organised via WhatsApp where our group spans more than 60 people. Both then and now, Sunday evenings are the most anticipated.

Our love for the game brings us together as a community; it offers us an escape from our everyday lives, these sessions and gatherings are almost therapeutic. Across four Sundays I photographed some of the faces in collaboration with Leica.

““Before the era of smartphones, we knocked on people’s doors to see if they were in to gather enough numbers to play a game, staying out at the cage until dark. “”