Is there such a thing as heaven on Earth? Probably not. But that stretch of time between Friday evening and Sunday afternoon when work is done and all the football is happening … that’s as close as we get.
For those few days, your group chats, your Discord servers, your social feeds—they all align as we partake in one of the final communal experiences that modern life has to offer: going to the match. If we had it our way, we would go to all of them. We’d go to all of the football matches. But we can’t, you see.
This is where Getty Images’ all-star team of incredibly talented photographers come in. Every weekend, they are everything, everywhere, all at once. They’re in the wind and the cold and the rain, capturing the joy and the despair and the commotion for our viewing pleasure. So, each Monday from now on, we’re going to take you behind the lens and give you a front-row seat to football’s main characters across the world. Here is what has our tongues wagging this week…
This is your mind on Lisandro Martínez. Look at Leny Yoro’s face, Amad’s lolling tongue.
Welcome to La Bombonera, Ander Herrera. You are going to love it.
CHAMPIOOOOOOOOOOONS. Just the fourth straight Supercopa for Barcelona now.
Naomi Girma, the world is yours.
You know what, it was nice that Nicolas Jackson tried to reassure Abdukodir Khusanov mid-game. This is a lad who’s gone from playing in Minsk to being parachuted into a must-win Premier League match on his debut for the Premier League champions. A 20-year-old who deserved an arm around his shoulder, and Jackson, no stranger to criticism himself, stepped in. Well in, Nicolas.
The penitentiary is filling up week upon week upon week, and no one can stop it.
Very funny that Jamie Vardy can do this to Spurs fans. They should let him play in the Premier League until his joints melt.
Genuinely looks like Bilal El Khannouss is having a religious experience here and that Vardy is anointing him, like a Raphael painting at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Kylian Mbappé! Three of the best, he’s made them pay. Saw someone online compare the way he dribbles to a politician trying to win votes, and now the weird specificity of that statement cannot leave our heads.
Dango Ouattara, mesmerised by a match ball he knows is coming home with him later.
The lads celebrating Romelu Lukaku’s winner against Juventus at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona. Scott McTominay is a handsome man, isn’t he?