Art-loving striker’s goals helped to fire Newcastle to Champions League and propelling Three Lions to Euro 2024 is next on list
How’s the art collection? It is not the typical opening question to an interview with an England footballer but Callum Wilson is a man of depth and savvy. The answer, it turns out, is pretty good.
The Newcastle striker has works from Banksy, Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin. “Mr Doodle, I’ve got that one piece [by him] … maybe [it will be] Patrick Caulfield next,” he says. “I took a shine to collecting in terms of the investment side and then you start to get into it. ‘I’ll put that on the wall,’ you think.
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