Sheffield Wednesday: Pete McKee on his new Owls mural in Hillsborough

Artist, Pete McKee, has completed his brand new Sheffield Wednesday-themed mural in Hillsborough. Here, he discusses why it is so close to his heart.

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00:00 mural yeah it's very close to my obviously as all my murals are they've

00:03 got a purpose to exist and this one obviously being a massive Sheffield

00:07 Wednesday I wanted to get it was great to have the opportunity to do a large

00:12 scale mural I've got a thank Sheffield Wednesday supporters trust for finding

00:15 the wall and asking me to create the mural and also I couldn't have done it without the support of

00:21 Glenbrook, ROTMP decorating, Dolphin as well as the supply people, the scissor lift

00:28 and making the scissor lift operational myself and we've all worked as a team to help get this mural done together

00:34 as a group, as a piece of teamwork, it was like basically Keating passes to Worthington and Worthington passes to

00:43 Urson banging the net goal so yeah and it's obviously it's a celebration of

00:50 being a Wednesday fan it's basically a statement to sort of say that no

00:56 matter who owns the club they're just purely custodians the club belongs to

01:01 the fans and so we're all Wednesday till we die no matter where we are in the league

01:05 or who's running us or who's playing brilliantly or playing poorly

01:10 the Wednesday fans will turn up through thick and thin, wind, rain and fog and we'll support them to the end

01:15 and Samido is a great guy to include in the mural and the iconic photograph of him

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