Louis Tomlinson at Allianz Parque, São Paulo [2.4.2024] 📸 Fabio Tito
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Looking down on The Dumbarton Football Stadium AKA The Rock, from the castle,taken April last year. 🏴
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A look around Motherwell in Scotland - not an obvious tourist destination but let's see what there is to do! We enjoyed it a lot as a day out and hope to visit again soon to explore inside the things that were closed while we were there (it was a Sunday morning to be fair!) 😀 Enjoy! 😍
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AI image generating is not for making art.
AI image generating is to experiment, have fun and have a nice cackle while trying really hard to sleep without getting nightmares.
Keep that in mind.
Hope you like it!
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On April 5th 1902 disaster struck at Ibrox Stadium when part of the flooring collapsed, killing 26 and injuring over 500 others.
This was the first international match between the two teams where all the players were paid professionals, it would be remember though for the tragic loss of life.
On the afternoon of 5th April 1902 a bumper crowd gathered at the then newly-built Ibrox Park in Glasgow to witness the Scotland national team face the ‘Auld Enemy’ for only the 31st time in their history. Sadly, 26 wouldn’t be going home.
The game had not long kicked off when shortly after 4PM a large section to the rear of the West Tribune Stand - estimated to have been holding just under half of the 70,000-strong crowd that day - collapsed, sending a tangled mass of humanity tumbling 45 feet through broken boards. The match was temporarily halted to allow the treatment of those injured, but play soon continued, the two teams battling it out for a 1-1 draw.
The final death toll was recorded as 26 with a further 587 injured. It was reported by The Scotsman at the time that rescuing the victims was a “work of great difficulty”.
Doubts regarding the quality of the construction materials as chosen by the renowned Archibald Leitch led to the manufacturers being prosecuted for culpable homicide. The case was unsuccessful, though the disaster put an abrupt end to the future use of wooden terraces. The reputation of Archibald Leitch survived relatively unscathed and a fund-raiser was set up to compensate those who had lost loved ones.
A replay was hastily organised and played a month later at Villa Park in Birmingham with all proceeds from the match being donated to a relief fund for victims of the disaster.
The disaster led to an overhaul in stadium design with wooden terraced stands being largely replaced by earth or concrete embankments.
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European Super League
On April 18th 2021 the shortlived European Super League was launched. As a supporter of a team that was heavily involved, this made me feel worse than any defeat my team had suffered. I made this conceptual illustration as a reminder of that time.
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