Wullie Reilly – legend

Legends together - Charlie Cooke and Wullie Reilly

I’ve had quite a lot of pictures in various newspapers in the last week or so but the one I’m most pleased got published is of these gentlemen – It’s Dundee fan Wullie Reilly with former Dundee and Chelsea star Charlie Cooke and it was taken over a year ago when Wullie first got diagnosed with cancer.

The Evening Telegraph did a feature on him having only a couple of months to live last night and with various wee stories from his life and they used my picture of Charlie and Wullie, not this exact frame (I like this one better) – Wullie is a legend amongst Dundee fans and he’s holding a ‘going away’ party this Sunday at Lyrics – everyone he knows is invited with a donation to Macmillan nurses being requested.

I take a lot of pictures of fans, Dundee and other teams, and I’ve missed Wullie being in the crowd at Dundee’s games recently – I hope I get to take his photo at a match again.

Tributes  and stories about Wullie on www.dundee-mad.co.uk
and also on www.dundeeunited-mad.co.uk

Donate to Macmillan nurses here – www.macmillan.org.uk/Donate/Donate.aspx

Red card

Dundee's Stephen O'Donnell's dismay is clear to see as referee George Salmond flashes the red card

Dundee’s Steven O’Donnell is red carded in the top of the IRN BRU Scottish Football League First Division clash at Ross County. His side had just taken the lead when he was dismissed for a challenge on County’s Stuart Kettlewell – the game finished 1-1

Bairns spanked

Falkirk players react after Dundee's fourth

Shot Dundee beating Falkirk on a blustery day at Dens Park and this pic just about sums up the Bairns’ afternoon – it’s the Falkirk players’ reaction after Steven Milne had put Dundee 4-2 ahead.

Sparring

Shot Monifieth Athletic under 14 footballers as they did boxing training to improve their overall fitness and decided I’d do some of them black and white – here’s one the rest can be seen at www.davidyoungphoto.co.uk

Monifieth Athletic Under 14s football club are doing boxing training at Lochee Boys Club to improve their overall fitness

You can bet Auchinleck were delighted

Auchinleck Talbot Director Colin Chisholm looks at the William Hill Scottish Cup after his junior club were handed an away tie to SPL Hearts in the 4th round draw at Hampden Park.

Photographed the William Hill Scottish FA Cup Fourth Round draw, the round when the Premier League clubs enter the competition and Junior Cup holders Auchinleck Talbot got a dream draw away to, arguably Scotland’s third biggest team, Hearts. Talbot director Colin Chisholm couldn’t hide his delight as he looked at the cup while waiting to be interviewed by SKY Sports News.

Remote saves the day

One of the most frustrating things about shooting football (soccer) is when a goal is scored and you are completely blocked from getting the shot (ie: a player or referee is directly between your shooting position and the scorer) – it happened to me yesterday, but I got away with it because of my remote.

The picture above shows what I saw, but despite not being able to get a photograph of the goal from where I was I kept shooting in the hope that my remote would catch something and I got lucky – see after the jump.