Carl Pownall, from Newsome, West Yorkshire, with his hand-built stadium in 1990. Taking him eight years to assemble, with each figure getting two coats of paint, his masterpiece contains 6,750 spectators plus 200 police, ambulance, camera crew, photographers, ball-boys and VIPs. He said: ‘I have always been interested in football – I’m just a big kid really.’

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