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Eric Cantona and Ella Toone help meld football and art for Manchester festival

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Football City , Art United is a multi-part exploration of the sport and artistic practice.

The exhibition features 11 pairings’ of footballers and artists put together according to interests.

Visitors to the Aviva Studios in Manchester will be immersed into a tunnel, with audio of crowd noise that Pfeiffer recorded live at the San Siro stadium during the Milan derby.

Football City , Art United is at Aviva Studios , Manchester from 4 July to 24 August .

Jill Mulleady is creating a holographic illusion’ of Diego Maradona .

The Swiss Uruguayan artist once met the footballer, and she is using that chance encounter as the basis for the illusion.

Other work includes the manga artist Chikyuu no Osakana Pon-chan recreating scenes from Shinji Kagawa .