✍️ We are delighted to announce the signing of Anthony Olusanya from Swedish club Kalmar FF
The 26-year-old attacker, who has been capped twice by Finland at senior international level, arrives at Richmond Park on Transfer Deadline Day ⚽️
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Thank you to one of our listeners, Theresa Walsh, who sent us a photograph of her parents attending the 1951 All-Ireland final, the last time Mayo brought Sam home💚❤️
"This is my late Mam and Dad, 'Stitch' and Kitty Birrane on O'Connell St., going to the last Mayo All-Ireland final win. Look at the little paper hat, the little suitcase of sandwiches, and their Sunday best clothes.
It took them seven hours to get there, always great supporters."
@sportingintel He signed a Liverpool shirt for me , I think I was 17 or 18. Said he hoped my mum wouldn't mind him writing on it. Seemed to have a quick word for everyone he was interacting with. Seemed a truly lovely man. RIP.
This is a list of English strikers who will be below the age of 30 at the Euros with at least one appearance in a top 5 league this season:
Liam Delap
Eddie Nketiah
Dane Scarlett
That’s it.
I post a lot about cleaning & enhancing Autochromes, but I realise not everyone will know what they are...
Autochromes are an early colour photographic process patented in 1903 by the Lumière brothers in France and first marketed in 1907.
Microscopic grains of potato starch were dyed red, green and violet, then mixed evenly into a paste and coated onto sheets of glass. A black-and-white emulsion was then flowed over this layer. When the photo was taken, the grains of potato starch on each plate acted like millions of tiny coloured filters creating a mosaic of glowing coloured dots, giving Autochromes the look of pointillist paintings.
The process was fiddly, messy and very expensive. Six Autochrome plates cost the equivalent of the average weekly wage, so they remained out of reach for ordinary working people. Consequently only a few hundred thousand Autochromes exist today (to put that into perspective, it is now estimated that humanity captures 5.3 billion photos every single day!)
Autochromes were not designed to be printed onto paper, instead they were colour transparencies on glass which would be viewed like photographic slides held in a special mirrored viewer.
They are considered the first true colour pictures, and the only industrial colour photography process until the introduction of affordable colour film in 1935.
When I began tweeting Autochrome enhancements during Lockdown in 2020, I used a basic algorithm to average out the difference between adjacent pixels, which smoothed away the pointillism of the image and made it look more akin to a modern photograph. Whilst this certainly enraged traditionalists, it also generated a lot of interest from people who began to view history in a new light through the images, and I am very proud to have captured so many peoples' imaginations with the work ♥️
FAI come down hard on Ringmahon for not fulfilling FAI Cup tie against Bohs. Banned from Cup for five years and the Intermediate Cup for three years, along with a 5k fine