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Beer mats that celebrate funny or weird World Cup moments to raise money for charity

Friends and designers Gordon Reid and Callum Stephenson have set up a fun project where they have commissioned 20 of their favourite artists and designers (Yarza Twins, Velvet Spectrum, Brand Nu, Hey Studio, Craig Oldham, Leta and Wade) to celebrate their favourite weird or hilarious moment from previous World Cups. The original pieces of Weird World Cup are now being printed on beer mats and "exhibited" in pubs around London in time for the World Cup.

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Illustration of a football goalkeeper making a save, featuring an orange and black soccer ball, pink gloves, yellow sun and grey mountains on a cream square against a bright blue background

All money the pair make from pubs and selling the beer mats online will go to the brilliant charity Football Beyond Borders and their fundraising for a new multi-purpose space in Angell Town Estate, Brixton. The space will have three uses: a main office, a learning hub used for all its schools' programmes (holiday provisions, youth voices etc) and a safe haven for young people in London from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Want to support Gordon and Callum? The website is now live at weirdworldcup.com where you can pre-order the beer mats and support Football Beyond Borders.

Two illustrated beer mats displayed on a bright blue background, featuring colourful abstract artwork celebrating World Cup moments
Green beer mat with white italic text and a silhouetted head profile, reading "You've got to hold & give but do it at the right time you can be slow or fast but you must get to the line
Stack of four beer mats featuring colourful abstract designs on a green background, with the top mat showing geometric shapes and lines in red, yellow, green and blue
Colourful beer mat design featuring two football players in yellow kits jumping to head a ball, with "LA MANO" and "DIOS" text separated by red, yellow and blue horizontal stripes
Collage-style illustration of a footballer performing an overhead kick with a patchwork ball featuring red, white and green panels on a cream background, displayed on a red surface
Colourful illustrated beer mat featuring a circular arrangement of cone-shaped referee whistles in red, blue, green, yellow and white against a black background
Two Weird World Cup beer mats displayed on a green background, one showing a goalkeeper diving, the other depicting a football tackle between two players
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