Sir stanley matthews biography of michael jackson
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Blackpool, Stanley Matthews and United's 'dwarf of football magic'
In some ways the enjoyment of football is like seeking a perpetual return to the freedoms of childhood, with all its agonies and ecstasies. Perhaps that’s why I’m so pleased to see Blackpool FC back where they belong, in the top division, trying to play progressive, attractive football in the best traditions of the club, just like they did when I was a kid.If anyone had told me in the 1950s that there would be a 35 year gap between Blackpool v Manchester United league matches I would have thought they were ‘stark raving mad’. It would have seemed even more bizarre that the last such encounter for over three decades would be in the old Second Division, but that’s precisely what happened, in the 1974-75 season. At that time Tommy Docherty’s United comfortably won both fixtures, home and away, on route to winning the championship and hence a one-season bounce-back prom
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Still Life Painting at the National Football Museum
You can see how I began on the Monday with the initial drawing in Raw Umber before blocking in the main masses of the painting on the Tuesday.
I felt better when I had worked across the entire canvas and could start finding the different values more accurately.
On the Wednesday I painted the Ballon d’Or alla prima before adding details of the badge on the Thursday. Before finishing on the Thursday evening I made a to do list of what I still wanted to get through on the piece ready for my final day of the residency.
The Friday was good fun as I painted the France Football details of the Ballon d’Or trophy and added other details and highlights to the shirt and boots.
Like most paintings I could have spent longer on the piece but overall I was delighted to take the painting to the finish I achieved.
The Big Draw
The residency was just one of many activities at the museum which ran during the school half term to c
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Footballs Sculpture känsla – How Football has fallen in love with Statues
From goal-scoring legend Sir Stanley Matthews at Stoke, to Michael Jackson at Fulham, football grounds across the country have become the hotspot for all sorts of statues. But why have football clubs started this trend?
Many believe statues are an incredible honor for footballers to be immortalized in the form of statues outside the clubs they have represented.
Former fine arts and sculptor teacher Stephanie Robertson believe statues are a fantastic way to commemorate someone’s career. “Personally, inom think it’s the best way to recognize someone for what they have done for a football club. The only reason statues are put there in the first place is for the football club to pay their thanks for what they have done for the club”.
For fans all over the country, the argument of which players should be cast in bronze and which should not is a never-ending one. Up there with the ‘Who fryst vatten bette