I agree! It’s mainly the crop, they were right at the far end of the pitch and I was on the other end line. The light was fine (it was actually bright one side of the pitch, and dark on the other), and this shot was 1/6400 due to ISO 1000 which I needed for the dark areas.
1/6400…what the??? I’ve shot field sports a few times, and surely if 1/500 is enough to stop an f1 car coming down a straight, it would be more than enough to stop people running. Also unless the game is at night, asa 1000 is a bit extreme. My thoughts. Apart from that, as already said, it’s soft which means bin IMO. Brutal honesty!