Fans can expect to see some extra special fancy footwork and artistic flourishes on the football pitch this year, after it was announced that the Turner Prize is open to footballers.
The prestigious art prize will now be accepting entries from the world of football, as long as they are deemed special enough to be considered visual art.
Among the footballers rumoured to be interested in the prize is Chelsea's Eden Hazard, who has been working on a 50-yard mid-air triple lutz back-heeler, which he hopes will make the shortlist; Theo Walcott's ongoing portrayal of alienation, displacement and wasted opportunity is also expected to garner praise from the Turner jury, which this year includes celebrity ponces such as Jarvis Cocker and Baron Bragg of Melvyn.
However, some art critics are unhappy: former prize nominee Sam Taylor-Wood described the decision to include footballers as a betrayal of the Turner's tradition of art based on blood, shit, piss, semen and vomit.
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