Football Murals: A Celebration of Soccer's Greatest Street Art

Andy Brassell

Hardcover | 19.94 x 1.78 x 25.4 cm | 176 pp

Bloomsbury | 2022 | 9781399402804 

On high-rise buildings, street corners and stadium walls around the world, eye-catching murals pay tribute to footballing greats. Offering a fresh, visual perspective on the game, Football Murals is the first book to celebrate these towering works of art. This richly illustrated book showcases the most impressive examples, explores their inspirational qualities and examines what they say about these icons and their sport.

Written and curated by respected football writer Andy Brassell, this ground-breaking book features more than 100 murals from around the world, capturing the scale, grandeur and wit of this powerful and popular art form. Through a series of short essays and extended captions, Andy shares the players' stories, discusses the cultural politics and explains just why these men and women have been immortalised in mural form.

Covering such diverse topics as Home Town Glory, Football Fame and The Cult of the Coach, Football Murals addresses the issues important to fans worldwide. It spans Marcus Rashford's inspirational mural in a Manchester suburb, the George Best tribute on the East Belfast estate where he was born, the 15-foot depiction of Megan Rapinoe in St Paul, Minnesota, and the Naples 'shrine' to Diego Maradona.

'A beautiful showcase of such a distinctive part of the game's culture... impossible not to get lost in the book'  Miguel Delaney, The Independent

'Gorgeous to behold... Unmissable' Danny Kelly, TalkSPORT radio presenter