Football as fine art — just look at these amazing shirts

Walthamstow FC’s William Morris wallpaper-inspired kit

BARRY BADGER

With football fever raging in the land, Britain’s least likely contemporary art space, the Oof Gallery, has become a must-go destination. The Oof Gallery is unlikely because it is located inside Tottenham Hotspur’s football stadium in north London. Worse than that, it is only accessible through the club shop. Anyone visiting the Oof needs first to run the gauntlet of home kits, away kits, Tottenham water bottles and pictures of Son Heung-min scoring a lucky goal.

When I went, the pop star Pink was also playing an out-of-season gig that night, so the shop was full of Pink’s pink merchandise clashing horribly with the sedate blue and white of Tottenham. Pink was winning. Spurs were getting in touch with their feminine side.

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