Skip to main content
Work with the NEU
Immortalising The Beat
ASIF BURHAN writes on a successful fan-driven campaign to extol a working-class football hero and Ipswich Town legend, Kevin Beattie
Ipswich Town's Kevin Beattie and Clive Woods celebrate their 3-0 victory in 1978

WHEN the only statues outside your football ground are of two knights, each of whom led England to the latter stages of the World Cup, you know you have to do something special to be immortalised in bronze outside Portman Road. 

Those who were lucky enough to see him play, however, know Kevin Beattie deserves the honour.

Sean Hedges-Quinn works on the model for his Kevin Beattie statue
The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
Similar stories
(L to R) How many Aunties?, Back Hares Mount, Leeds, 1978; M
Photography / 14 April 2025
14 April 2025

Peter Mitchell's photography reveals a poetic relationship with Leeds

The crowd at Manchester Punk Festival 2024
Culture / 11 April 2025
11 April 2025
Ben Cowles speaks with IAN ‘TREE’ ROBINSON and ANDY DAVIES, two of the string pullers behind the Manchester Punk Festival, ahead of its 10th year show later this month
Tower of Babel, 1982
Culture / 10 April 2025
10 April 2025
This is poetry in paint, spectacular but never spectacle for its own sake, writes JAN WOOLF
Second Cumming - Bella Caledonia 2020, by Lorna Miller
Exhibition review / 21 March 2025
21 March 2025
In an exhibition of the graphic art of Lorna Miller, MATT KERR takes a lungful of the oxygen of dissent