Wigan

 Sunday night, and I find myself on my laptop, renaming all the photographs of recently (and I use the term loosely) finished figures.

Aaaand this made me think I should probably do a blog post for the first time in quite a while.

So without further ado, here are all the Wigan players I've ever done!

And I think that'll do. Let's see if I can get back on a roll here, now that the football season has started again!

Kalvin Phillips, Leeds Funko (Not really about the Euros part 8)

Today is a momentous day, but not just cos England are playing Germany in Euro 2020. 

More importantly, in one of those BBC 'Pick your XI' things, the general public have picked Kalvin Phillips. Finally, it seems, all those hE OnLy PaSsEs SiDeWaYs geniuses have started to realise how important KP is to the team. And I'm all for it!

So here he is, in Leeds kit, naturally, immortalised in Funko form!

 And that's it. That's the post.

Tenuous Euro 2020 post part 7

At the risk of being an arrogant, unbearable England fan: It... might come home. Possibly?!

What a great win yesterday tho! First time in living memory that we've won a knockout game at the Euros in 90 minutes!

I thought I'd mark the occasion with an England legend. Not in England kit, obviously, but he is in white! And he's a pundit at this year's Euros!

 SPOILERS: there's gonna have to be more Southampton Shearers for me to make this theme last!

And now, one that I hadn't accounted for!

As I chomped on my victory Pizza, I saw a pundit on the Sweden vs Ukraine game, and thought: "Aha! I've done one of him!"

And here's Freddie Ljungberg in Celtic colours. We probably won't see him again this tournament now that Sweden are out...

Tenuous Euro 2020 post 6

 Well everyone, my supply of figures that just barely relate to Euro 2020 is running low. But yesterday's highlights show gave me another one!

Dion Dublin! He may've been on all through the Euros; I don't know!! Last night was the first time I caught a bit of one of the highlights shows... even though I had already watched both of the games!

And here's Cantona again, making his second appearance on one of these posts, just because he's on a Sports Direct advert!

For those of you unfamiliar, this is a Vivid Imaginations Figure. There were a few Premier League players made, at a similar time that corinthians first came out. These are much bigger. I don't have any in my own collection, but I can see why people like them.

And that's your lot for today. I've decided (without doing any actual planning) that to stand any chance of getting to the end of the Euros with these, I'm gonna have to cut down to 2 pics per post!

Tenuous Euros post, part 5

I'm back to kind of, sort of Euro 2020 related figures today! It's going to be a pundit special... cos I've exhausted my backlog of still active players!

 Ian Wright, in his Palace days. You've got to love Wright's punditry... I can't remember the exact phrasing, but the way he described Saka's performance the other day was great! Gloriously purposeful, or something like that?! 

EDIT: Found it, it was "Burdened with glorious purpose!"

On the flip side, Danny Murphy said "He looks a good keeper," about Donnarumma. That's the Donnarumma who's got 250 career appearances at 22, and is off to PSG this summer...

Anyway, here's a figure of Danny Murphy for Spurs that I painted years ago!!

You can tell how old this one is because i) it's definitely not my current standard ii) even the photography skills weren't as good back then!! and iii) the dead giveaway; I used to leave white boarders around the pics! That's the giveaway.

And last but not least:

Let's throw in another Shearer! I can't think of any specific examples of Shearer's recent punditry... other than picking Turkey as a dark horse... but I quite like him!