graphite & putty eraser, with watercolour pencil/30x21cm
Today’s randomly-chosen re-mediated subject is an image of Piet
Schrijvers, who was represented in the FKS ‘Wonderful World of Soccer Stars
World Cup 1974’ sticker album (from which original source this drawing came to be processed)
& subsequently selected as a goalkeeping member of the official Holland squad for the
Finals, although he did not go on to make a playing appearance during the
tournament, obviously under such circumstances remaining another of the ‘unheard-ofs’
to me (at the 1978 World Cup, however, & as a big bloke fashionably sporting what seemed a
most inappropriate but, for footballers of the time, almost mandatory bubble
perm, he was an unforgettable presence, despite research revealing that he only
actually played in 3 matches, & was substituted, injured, after a mere 21
minutes of the third of those).
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