Originally from Nottingham, the photographer, who at the time was a student, said he wanted to get practice among football crowds ahead of a trip to the World Cup.
“Just before I went to Italia ’90 I went to a few matches around just to get a feel of photographing football fans in the street and dealing with confrontation and aggression and drunk people,” he said.
He recalled how he found himself in Stoke-on-Trent after a night out, and “it all kicked off” outside the ground.
“It was a big riot in the street, there were Birmingham fans coming in one way and Stoke fans coming in the other way,” he said.
“I only had one roll of film, so I would go and look for an image and wait for it and then compress the shutter,” he explained.
