Hockey Gold, Glinting in the Rising Sun
Veryan Pappin, British Men's Olympic Hockey Goalkeeper Sorry to learn of the death of Imran Sherwani , the goal-scoring hero of the British Men's Olympic Hockey team, who won gold at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. It reminded me that I knew one of the team members, reserve goalkeeper Veryan Pappin, who came on the field for the last minute of the final, and was thus awarded a gold medal. On his return to his, then, home county, Devon, he and I drove up to Dartmoor in the early hours of a chilly morning, to take some photos. At the time I was writing articles for a local glossy coffee-table magazine called SWT*. I had persuaded them to take an article about our local hero, and since I was also freelancing as a (not very good) relief photographer for local newspapers, I decided to take some cool photos for it. I persuaded Veryan to bring his goalkeeper kit up to Haytor - one of Dartmoor's best-known and most loved rock outcrops - for a photoshoot at sunrise. SWT ran it as ...
