I am never a fan of Manchester United. I may have to rethink that now that Michael Owen is in the team. Lols.
YC and I went to watch the game sometime back. Lucky for us, we got the tickets early and managed to book ourselves two training passes to see them train. Imagine these footballers, making money by getting people to see them train! 
We brought the trusty D70s and our sigma 70-200mm in hopes of getting a good shot of Giggs, Rooney and maybe a glimpse of Michael Owen. Unfortunately, we placed too much hopes in the 70-200mm, thinking it was a blardy 600mm. But the pictures didn’t turn out too bad.
Many turned up for the training session and all this while, I thought there were only like 100 people or so. I thought we were like the lucky few to watch them train. I even got YC to bring a marker pen, just in case! But in the end, he forgotten to bring it anyway and was pretty bumped throughout the ride! Oh well, no loss!
The ONLY close up we managed to get. That’s Ben Foster. Actually, we were seating pretty far off so this is not too bad.
I got annoyed at one part when this boy next to me started playing with the chairs. He started banging them and the father was SO oblivious to it. With every bang, the chair vibrated. I told the father to ask his son to stop it because it is “annoying”. I don’t know if he understood me but the boy stopped after that! hehe.
Here are the guys warming up in the picture above. Can you see Rooney?
They were doing their final run around the field, applauding to those who came.
The one hour training felt like 15 minutes. It was over so fast. At one point, during the training, I shouted, “MICHAEL OWEN”. YC gave me a look of embarrassment. On the night of the game, I WASN’T the only one that shouted his name!
It’s funny though, because before it started, no matter who came into the field, even if it was the water boy, as long as they are wearing the Manchester United jersey, everyone cheered! The atmosphere was pretty amazing.
And here they are cooling down. You see that water boy on the right? I bet if he walked into the field before any of the players, he will also be cheered!
Even though I am not a fan, I must say, I truly enjoyed myself. I envied the photojournalist down on the field. What a cool job! 
Before I end, here is a peek of a wedding that I had the pleasure of taking.
All this, in the next post! Toodles!
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