Being a bike nut, it was nice to pretend to be shooting Valentino at Assen, but you take what you can get and its not a bad way to spend a Saturday morning!

Loads more in the Gallery

Jeffs brother Matt is the captain of Sylvans, so you can guess who I was supporting. I was a pretty good match, and I think it was a fair result in the end.

The match gave me my first opportunity to try my new lens. How did it go? Well, I could have picked better conditions to shoot my first football match then a floodlight evening match. I got a couple of shots that I liked, but most of them had some focus issues as they just weren't sharp enough. Still it all gets added to the learning experience and I'll be better next time.

I've put up my efforts here

I've added what I believe is technically known as a 'sh*tload' of photos from todays match in the gallery.