The man whose sports images really grabbed

Being blind in one eye might be regarded as a handicap for a photographer, but not for Monte Fresco.

Mr Fresco, who has died at the age of 77, was the doyen of Fleet Street sports photographers, covering seven football World Cups and taking some of the game’s most famous images

According to his son, Mat, his partial blindness “gave him a unique advantage. While others could have one eye on the game and the other to observe things around them, my father could only follow the game. And he wouldn’t necessarily just follow the ball. He would pay close attention to the movement on the field”

It was this focus that “enabled him to capture famous shots, like the one of Vinnie Jones ‘tackling’ Paul Gascoigne,” said Mat.