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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Rachel Hall

‘They’re local lads’: artist puts mural of Bellingham and Rogers on chip shop

An image of Bellingham raising a chip to his mouth and Rogers taking one from a bag
The mural of local-born heroes Jude Bellingham (left) and Morgan Rogers at the Classic Fryer chip shop in Quinton. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

On a busy junction in Quinton, a suburb of Birmingham, England football stars Jude Bellingham and Morgan Rogers are peering out from the side of a fish and chip shop, tucking into the local delicacy: orange chips.

The huge lifelike image was pasted on the wall on Friday afternoon by a local guerrilla artist seeking to foster West Midlands pride, both for the area’s footballing stars and for its distinctive neon battered chips.

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