Friday review

For Friday I have produced four images on my new theme, but when Pete and Sophie saw them they suggested that they were more flash points than injuries. So my new idea is to create 10 contemporary clip art images illustrating controversial, mad and damn right crazy events that have happened in football over the past few years. Looking at the likes of Di canio, Cantona and Zinedine Zidane, all losing there heads in the heat of the moment. Football is a high pressure sport with lots riding on it, which can lead people to do some crazy things, from the sublime to the ridiculous.

1. Golden Balls - Silver screen hardman Vinny Jones first built his reputation on the football pitch as Paul Gascoigne found out at Plough Lane in 1988. Jones had a noval way of handling Gascoigne at his talented best. The pair still laugh about it. Well, Vinnie does. According to Jones “I just moved my left arm backwards and grabbed.”

2. Zi Head-Butt - Zinedine Zidane chose the grandest stage of all to make football’s most
infamous exit when he butted Italy’s Marco Materazzi in the chest during the 2006 World Cup final. He was shown a red card in his final match and France went on to lose on penalties. Zidane said the Italian had insulted his mother and sister. So that’s all right then.

3. Kung-fu Cantona - Eric Cantona will always be remembered for launching himself feet first at a Crystal Palace fan who abused him at Selhurst Park in January 1995. Cantona served 120 hours of community service and was also fined £20,000.

4. Come on then - Lee Boywer and Kyren Dyer (team mates) decide to fight each other during a game. Bowyer accused Dyer of being to greedy and deliberately not passing to him.

5. Touch Line War - Recently when West Ham played Arsenal, Wenger and Pardew did not see eye to eye, and heated arguments and pushing broke out between the two.

6. I'm in Charge - Paolo di Canio earned footballing infamy when he pushed referee Paul Alcock over after the official had sent him off in 1997 while playing for Sheffield Wednesday. He was banned for 11 games and fined £16,000.

7. Crunch - Chelsea goal keeper Peter Cech, recently cracked his skull after this crunching tackle with Reading’s Stephen Hunt.

8. The Sniffer - Robbie Folwer decided to celebrate scoring a goal by prentending the white touch line was coke and having a sniff.

9. Mooney - Manchester City’s Joey Barton, recently received mass abuse from the Everton fans during a match, after his side scored a late equaliser to snatch a point, the controversial midfielder decided to moon the Everton fans. He has recently escaped charges from
Merseyside police.

10. Dracular - Spurs and England forward Jermaine Defoe, appears to have a bite of West Ham’s Javier Mascherano.

I think my images are very successful, working both individually and as a group. I have really enjoyed this project, but found it a challenge trying to find images of some of the events I wanted to portray. Which was surprising as they were big news at there respective times.