"After the Barron!"

They Shall Never Be Forgotten

They Shall Never Be Forgotten

The Falklands War

The Falklands War was painted onto a wall in the Falklands room in BVUK, Llandudno.  

Steven Gerrard

Liverpool Captain, Steven Gerrard said: "I was really impressed with the painting and I think that Matthew did capture a good likeness of me. His talent and technique is illustrated in this piece, which I was more than happy to sign."
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Steven George Gerrard, MBE (born 30 May 1980) is an English footballer who plays for and captains Premier Leagueclub Liverpool. He has played much of his career as a central midfielder, but he has also been used as a second striker, holding midfielder, attacking midfielder, right back and right winger.^[3][4][5]

Gerrard has spent his entire career at Anfield, making his debut in 1998, cementing his place in the first team in 2000, and succeeding Sami Hyypiä as team captain in 2003. His honours include two FA Cups, three League Cups, one UEFA Champions League, one UEFA Cup, and two UEFA Super Cups. He has signed a contract to join MLS club LA Galaxy in July 2015, following the conclusion of the 2014–15 season with Liverpool.^[6]

Gerrard made his international debut for the England national football team in 2000, and represented his country at the 2000, 2004 and 2012 UEFA European Football Championships, as well as the 2006, 2010 and 2014 FIFA World Cups – captaining the team at the latter two tournaments.^[7] He was named as the permanent England captain shortly before UEFA Euro 2012,^[8] where he was named in the UEFA Team of the Tournament.^[9]Gerrard became the sixth player to win 100 caps for England in 2012,^[10] and is currently third in the country's all time appearance list. He ended his international career in July 2014, having won 114 caps.

Regarded to be one of the best English footballers of his generation,^[11][12][13]Gerrard came second to Kenny Dalglishin the "100 Players Who Shook The Kop", a 2008 Liverpool fan poll, and first in 2013.^[14][15] Zinedine Zidane said in 2009 that he considered Gerrard to be the best footballer in the world.^[16] In 2005, Gerrard was honoured as the UEFA Club Footballer of the Year and won the Ballon d'Or Bronze Award. He has also been named in the PFA Team of the Year a record eight times, the UEFA Team of the Year and FIFA World XI three times, and was named PFA Players' Player of the Year in 2006 and the FWA Footballer of the Year in 2009. He is, to date, the only footballer ever to have scored a goal in an FA Cup Final, a League Cup Final, a UEFA Cup Finaland a Champions League Final.^[17]

Graham Lee

This is a painting of my friend from school who is in the Police and is an eager triathlon athlete

José Mourinho

José Mário dos Santos Mourinho Félix, OIH (born 26 January 1963), known as José Mourinho (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuˈzɛ moˈɾiɲu]), is a Portuguese football manager and former football player who is the current manager of English club Chelsea.^[1]

He is regarded by a number of players, coaches, and commentators as one of the greatest and most successful managers in the world.^[2][3][4] Mourinho began his involvement in professional football as a player in the Portuguese Second Division. He studied sports science in Technical University of Lisbon and attended coaching courses in Britain. In Lisbon, he worked as a physical education teacher and had spells working as a youth team coach, a scout, and an assistant manager. In the early 1990s, he became an interpreter for Sir Bobby Robson at Sporting CPand Porto in Portugal, and Barcelona in Spain. He remained at the Catalonianclub working with Robson's successor Louis van Gaal.

Mourinho impressed with brief but successful managerial periods at Benfica and União de Leiria, taking the latter to their highest ever league finish. He returned to Porto in early 2002 as head coach, winning the Primeira Liga, Taça de Portugal, and UEFA Cup in 2003. In the next season, Mourinho guided the team to victory in the Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, to the top of the league for a second time, and won the highest honour in European club football, the UEFA Champions League. Mourinho moved to Chelsea the following year and won the Premier League title with a record 95 points, the club's first league title in 50 years, and the League Cup in his first season. In his second year, Chelsea retained the Premier League and in 2006–07 he took the club to an FA Cup and League Cup double. Mourinho left Chelsea in September 2007, amidst reports of a rift with club owner Roman Abramovich.^[5]

In 2008, Mourinho moved to Serie Aclub Internazionale. Within three months he had won his first Italian honour, the Supercoppa Italiana, and completed the season by winning the Serie A title. In 2009–10, Inter became the first Italian club to win the treble of Serie A, Coppa Italia and the UEFA Champions League, also the first time Inter had won the latter competition since 1965. Beside Ernst Happel, Ottmar Hitzfeld, Jupp Heynckes and Carlo Ancelotti, Mourinho is one of only five coaches to have won the European Cup with two different teams.^[6] He won the first ever FIFA Ballon d'Or Best Coach Award in 2010. He then signed with Real Madridin 2010, winning the Copa del Rey in his first season. The following year, he won the La Liga and became the fourth coach, after Tomislav Ivić, Ernst Happel, and Giovanni Trapattoni, to have won league titles in at least four different countries: Portugal, England, Italy, and Spain.^[7] After leaving Madrid in June 2013, Mourinho returned to England to manage Chelsea for a second spell.^[8]

Because of his tactical knowledge, charismatic (but also very controversial) personality and what his opponents regard as emphasis on getting results over playing beautiful football, he is often seen, by both admirers and critics, as the successor of Argentine manager Helenio Herrera.^[9][10]

Alex Ferguson

Sir Alexander Chapman "Alex" Ferguson, CBE (born 31 December 1941), is a Scottish former football manager and player who managed Manchester United from 1986 to 2013. His time at the club has led to Ferguson being regarded as one of the most successful, admired and respected managers in the history of the game.^[4]

Ferguson managed East Stirlingshireand St. Mirren before a highly successful period as manager of Aberdeen. After briefly managing Scotland following the death of Jock Stein, he was appointed manager of Manchester United in November 1986.

Ferguson is the longest serving manager of Manchester United, overtaking Sir Matt Busby's record on 19 December 2010, eventually completing more than 26-and-a-half years as the club's manager. He has won many awards and holds many records including winning Manager of the Year most times in British football history. In 2008, he became the third British manager to win the European Cup on more than one occasion. He was knighted in the 1999 Queen's Birthday Honours list, for his services to the game.^[5]

On 8 May 2013, Ferguson announced his retirement as manager of Manchester United. During his 26 years at the club, he won 38 trophies, including 13 Premier League and two UEFA Champions League titles.^[6]