Archive for March, 2011

March 28, 2011

ART: Maradona v Belgium

This painting is taken from the famous image of Diego Maradona playing for Argentina in a game against Belgium. It is painted onto a 16″x20″ canvas board.

March 25, 2011

The Star of Wisła

Since the fall of communism in the early 90’s and the formation of many club “firms”, Polish football fans have earned quite a bad reputation on the rest of the continent. Fighting, Homophobic chanting and racism are all prevalent in the stands, and the problems run even deeper. I have delved into the situation previously with an article for IBWM highlighting the violent confrontations between Kraków’s top two clubs, but it’s to Poland’s second city we head to find a man who is on target to change some fans’ perceptions.

March 21, 2011

The Lows of an Addiction

A piece of poetry for the Football Blog Carnival organised by David Bevan of The Seventy Two.

March 21, 2011

Los Revolucionarios

As you may know, I have a football art project called “Los Revolucionarios”. It is 11 of the best players ever seen, plus an all-time great manager, immortalised on canvas.

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