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How Greenwood reacted to this 25-hour portrait

KhizzaArt spent over 25 hours working on the passion project after drawing inspiration from Greenwood’s goal against Wolverhampton Wanderers back in August, when the Red’s celebration included a 'Wakanda' salute that paid tribute to the late Black Panther actor Chadwick Boseman.

While the artist is not a United fan, he was drawn to Greenwood’s talent and everything that our proud Academy graduate represents. “Mason epitomises the daydreams of the small six-year-old kicking a football around in a baggy no.11 shirt on the cobbled streets of Salford,” KhizzaArt told us.

“It was inevitable that I was going to do a piece of Mason: for me it was all about the timing.