You are the Ref - Shoot Magazine - 10 (Original)

You are the Ref - Shoot Magazine - 10 art by Paul Trevillion

You are the Ref - Shoot Magazine - 10 (Original)


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Artist: Paul Trevillion
Medium: Pen & Ink on Board
Size: 8" x 16" (205mm x 405mm)
Date: c. 1975
Code: Trevillion10

This is the unique original Pen & Ink drawing by Paul Trevillion.

'You are the Ref': this enduring football feature originated in 1952 in the pages of 'Lillywhite', the Tottenham Hotspur magazine, when Paul Trevillion was asked to provide a cartoon quiz strip.

Five years later the strip, now called 'Hey Ref', appeared in The People newspaper. By the mid 1960s Trevillion was working on the 'Roy of the Rovers' strip in Tiger along with more factual football material. He was therefore a natural to continue the quiz strip in the new magazine Shoot when it launched in 1969 and ran until 1983.

The referees who posed the questions were Stan Lover followed by Clive Thomas and it continues today under the guidance of Keith Hackett. The examples we have are mainly from the mid 1970s and some contain likenesses of famous footballers of the era such as Liverpool's Kevin Keegan and Manchester United's Lou Macari.

This episode has tape residue on panel 2 and is priced accordingly.
  • Artist Biography
    Paul Trevillion (born 11 March 1934; London, UK)
    Paul Trevillion is a British comic/sports artist, whose career spans fifty years.

    Born in Tottenham, north London, Trevillion produced artwork for publications like Eagle and TV Century 21 while still at school. From the 1960s to the 1980s, Trevillion devised and illustrated pieces for Daily Mirror, Daily Express, The Sun, The Daily Telegraph and The Times, and in 2006 revived his cult football cartoon You Are The Ref - made famous by football magazine Shoot! in the 1970s - for The Observer. A book collecting 50 years of You Are The Ref was published in October 2006. From August 2008, You Are The Ref appeared online at guardian.co.uk.

    Trevillion, who spent much of the 1960s in the US working with Mark McCormack at IMG for some of the world's biggest brands, is the author and illustrator of over 20 books which have sold worldwide. He also illustrated the famous Gary Player Golf Class which appeared in over 300 newspapers worldwide.

    He has met and drawn some of sport's biggest names, including Pelé, Bobby Moore, George Best, Franz Beckenbauer, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Sugar Ray Robinson and Oscar De La Hoya. As a young man, he also met and drew British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

    Trevillion's career away from his art has been rich and, at times, bizarre. He worked as a stand-up comedian, supporting the likes of Norman Wisdom and Bob Monkhouse, had a record deal, was crowned world speed-kissing champion, and invented a split-handed golf putting technique. He was also the inspiration behind an attempt to boost Leeds United's image in the 1970s. Hired by Don Revie in 1972, his ideas included wearing numbered sock tags (which were subsequently thrown into the crowd as souvenirs) and synchronised warm-ups.

    In 2008 Trevillion was interviewed in the award-winning documentary Roy, about the life and times of Roy of the Rovers: a character Trevillion illustrated in the 1950s. The film was shown at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.

    In 2011 Trevillion was short-listed for the prestigious Sports Journalists' Association Cartoonist of the Year Award. Marking this feat at the age of 75, his long-time colleague Norman Giller commented in a tribute on the SJA website: "To describe Paul as a cartoonist is to trivialize a career dedicated to producing outstanding art."

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