You are looking at ‘Football Mishmash – The History of Soccer in One Image’ by Alex Bennett, AKA The Mishmash Man. A checklist is included on a seperate sheet, detailing every item on the collage.
‘Football Mishmash’ is a massive hand-drawn illustration created from over 500 famous and infamous incidents from the history of football and featuring approximately 2000 individual characters.
‘Football Mishmash’ features everything from Geoff Hurst’s goal in the 1966 World Cup Final to Rene Higuita’s incredible ‘Scorpion Kick’ for Colombia; the tragedy of the Hillsborough Disaster, to Zinedine Zidane’s notorious head-butt on Marco Materazzi in the 2006 World Cup Final; Sylvester Stallone’s penalty save in the movie Escape to Victory, to a timeline of David Beckham, and perhaps more importantly, his haircuts!
The first edition was started in April 2012 & completed in February 2013, Football Mishmash took approximately 1800 hours to complete. A great deal of attention was spent researching this project, ensuring football kits and clothing were as accurate as possible to picking the brains of friends to see what incidents throughout they could recall.
Choose from two different sizes:
- A3, with the checklist included on a separate sheet. Will be rolled into a sturdy cardboard tube for safe delivery.
- A handy 10cm x 15cm postcard version of the print for a cute little stocking filler gift idea!
Images by OHC Maker The Mishmash Man.