A lovely obituary by Sid Lowe in the Guardian this morning for Michael Robinson who has died aged 61:
Having virtually no interest at all in sport, it was slightly ironic that I ended up during the nineties shooting quite regularly for 442, the football magazine published by Haymarket. As a result of the success of that magazine, for a short period of time they also produced a matchday programme for Liverpool FC in the form of a high quality perfect bound magazine but for reasons unknown to me it only lasted a few issues. This was the first shoot I did for them and Michael and I met in the bar of the Hilton in Islington. I used the long window with its vertical glass baffles as a background and that gave the image a bluish tinge which worked well with his suit and tie but I felt it needed a contrasting accent somewhere and asked him if he’d pose with his beer, fully expecting him to refuse but he was completely relaxed about it. When the shoot was done I joined him for another as he told me the lovely story of how, despite initially speaking hardly any of the language, this most English of footballers became a beloved commentator in his adopted home of Spain.