My name is Dave Hewitson, lifelong Liverpool FC supporter. Dad took
me when I was about 6 years old, season ticket holder, first season ticket 1979.
I'm PJ, 42, I've been following Everton since I was five.
When I grew up by the ground, I remember a sports shop on Goodison road and nobody
remembers it and it's in this painting. Just there, they used to sponsor QPR as well.
Frank Green, local artist, had a place on Oldfield road or whatever. Your Everton crowd on the day
and Liverpool one, and the interesting thing about the Liverpool one is this guy is going to the
match with a Head bag and I don't why he's going to the match with a Head bag unless he's selling
some trainees to his mates or something but it sort of relates to what this exhibition's about.
Yeah this is my favourite bit, iconic goals, but this, I would have been nearly five
but can remember it, I can remember watching it. That was the game where 40,000 Evertonians
traveled to Rotterdam. I loved this when I came last week, this is amazing. I'd buy all of them.
People could walk past these, Leo Fitzmorris,
I was speaking to him recently, he just started off when he was going
to the Liverpool game, he found a few ciggy packets on the floor, it's an amazing work.
Played in that one many a time, that's on the side of the old Everton supporters club City road,
Millman road, and my mate lived in the next house, so we'd often play there.
There's a saying, 'It's grim up north' that's been around. I think when went to the games in London,
when you got the train coming out of Euston there was a wall that was
spray painted 'Turn back now, it's grim up north'.
I do love this one by Lucy Mackenzie
who had a retrospective at the Tate recently. From a distance, you think
everything's been pinned onto a corkboard, but get up close and everything's
been painted. It's the athleisure wear that's come in because of that 80s period.
Apparently, everyone loves the bedroom, takes everyone back.
You got your Subbuteo your ghetto blaster even your bean bag in the corner and then obviously
you would have a throw on your bed, your head bag, and all your clothes and shoes thrown under the
bed or the side of the bed. So I think it touches a few people who come and it probably does take
people back, when they were back at home living in their mum and dad's, that was their bedroom.
Paper and bedding, whoever chose that for the exhibition they got it spot on.
Got a head bag and i've still got it, the one with the side pocked on.
The Subbuteo was a big part of everyone's life so we had to through a bit of Subbuteo in
and obviously because of that, this major piece of Subbuteo
was the Mark Wallinger where it's been escalated on a plinth, another Turner Prize
winner, who would have thought we would have a Turner Prize winner within our exhibition.
I see it as a bit of new Pop Art like Terrace Art, you've got you know a painting of trainer shoe,
a bit like Warhol and his soup cans and his brillo pads, throw away consumerism but you should be
throwing away your trainers when they're worn out but they become a piece of art. Trainer shoes and
they ones on canvas are part of the exhibition. So you know it's sort of another cycle, another
legacy of lads just going to the match in the 80s. Who would have thought from doing that and going
to Europe to buy a pair of trainer shoes you would end up with an exhibition in a national gallery.