As is the case for many fans, my sports journey can’t be summed up in a few photographs/ selected pictures. Nonetheless here is a selection of photos that cover some of my involvement with sport.
The first photo features HMP (Her Majesty’s Prison) Cardiff. Sport has taken me to many places I’d otherwise not have visited. In the case of this Victorian jail in Cardiff I ‘went to prison’ as a member of a local football team who played a match against the prisoners in the 1980s.
This is a picture I took in the late 1980s of a turnstile at ‘Ninian Park’ Cardiff City’s now demolished football stadium. After years of going through the gates of Ninian Park, I now have one of these Royal Blue turnstiles in my back garden in Cardiff.
My son Rhys becomes another member of the Lewis family to follow the Wales national men’s football team.
Here I am giving a Sociology of Sport lecture just outside Zurich in the town of Winterthur, Switzerland.
Below, students from Basel learn about cricket in Cardiff.
Still defiant at first light!
Following defeat to Montenegro in our opening qualification game for Euro 2012, fellow Welsh fan Tim Evans and I endure an early morning Ferry crossing as we slowly make our way home
If qualifying losses represented ‘the pain’, then Euro ‘16 represented ‘the gain’.
Here are two of my favourite pictures from France 2016. Firstly being pictured with my wife Eva before France played Albania in Marseille. Then having a pre-match drink with my mate Gareth Morlais when Wales took on Northern Ireland in Paris.
Finally...
in the course of teaching aspects of the Sociology of Sport to overseas students and doing Team Liaison work, students and teams have presented me with a variety of signed shirts.
