On the eve of England’s World Cup campaign in Russia, I went with friends for a behind the scenes tout of St George’e Park which is the flagship training facility for the England football teams. It is an impressive facility situated in the beautiful Staffordshire countryside. The tour starts in the Hilton Hotel which is full of footballing memories in the form of pictures and trophies. The training facility is a short walk next door and has numerous indoor pitches. There is a state of the art Hydrotherapy suite and other gymnasiums. There are also changing rooms named after England captains. We were not able to enter the Billy Wright one as there was a football competition taking place but we were allowed to see the Bryan Robson changing room which was prepared for the England team match of Futsal. They were playing an international match against Poland. The tour finished with a hot and cold buffet at the Hilton Hotel.
For the photographers reading this. The photographs were taken with my Sony RX100v5 and processed with Photoshop. I set the Sony on Program for general shooting so as to be ready for impromptu pictures. I shoot in RAW and the processing will include sharpening via an unsharp mask and tweaking of the exposure, highlight, colours and saturation.
