The non-football fan who snapped the game beautifully

“It’s helped me produce different images than the usual sports football photographer,” Robinson explained to the BBC.

“Because their remit, their shopping lists are the things that are important in the game – goals and incidents.

“I’m destined to shoot these pictures because other people are not.

“All of the pictures have got a question mark on it for me – why did this happen like this?”

Robinson’s photography journey started in the 1960s when, while booking local bands to play in Leicester, he met a group called The Contacts, made up of photography students at the Leicester School of Art, now De Montfort University.

He said they had “a good vibe” and he wondered what it would be like to make a living taking photos.

Robinson, who lived in New Parks in Leicester at the time, decided to speak to the course leader even though he did not have a camera or any photographs to show.

He chose to study photography at the school in 1964 and instantly took to it.

“It took me a day to figure out this is what I wanted to do for the rest of my life,” Robinson said.

“You could shoot, and you’ve made the prints, and then you critique them in class.

“I felt like I was Jack the Lad. People were talking about what I had done in class and I just took to this perfectly.”