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Here are some amazing football locations from Urban Goals

The photographic blog that collects beautiful images of the typically urban football culture in the UK

Here are some amazing football locations from Urban Goals The photographic blog that collects beautiful images of the typically urban football culture in the UK

Being addicted to the English football does not mean just following the Premier League over the weekend, loving the atmosphere of the UK venues and remembering the goals of Gianfranco Zola, Eric Cantona, Thierry Henry or Wayne Rooney. The true lovers of British football know very well that it's also and first of all a sport that is born on the streets, and the urban origins influences a lot the growth of their affection about it. Its true essence lies in the passion shared by a group of kids who, after school, find themselves in the playground close to their houses, in the fish & chips meal before the match and in the terraces culture, in the habit of playing on the wet asphalt of the suburbs, in small towns less known and far from London and Manchester, even when it's cold and the sky is always grey. It's also in drawing an extemporary goals on the bricks when there is no real one available, or planting two posts in the middle of a green field, the essential that needs to dream of becoming the new David Beckham or the new Harry Kane. Fortunately, someone over the years has decided to collect all the best pics from different parts of England (not only), and did so by updating a photo blog on Tumblr, and then also on Twitter and Instagram: the project launched by the English photographer Michael Kirkham, whom we never tire of watching, could only have been named more appropriate than Urban Goals.