EVERY football fan has an iconic moment that sticks in their memory.
Teenage artist Gabe Cuthbert is now taking it upon himself to capture those memories for fans to wear with pride.
The 19-year-old has established business art-of-football.co.uk, specialising in printing images of highs and lows from the beautiful game onto T-shirts.
The former art student, of Gamston, first came up with the idea moments after watching Nottingham Forest's dramatic derby victory over Notts County in the first round of the Carling Cup in 2011.
County were winning 3-2 deep into extra time when Reds' defender Wes Morgan hit a 122nd-minute screamer to equalise and take the match to a penalty shoot-out, which Forest won 4-3.
Forest season ticket holder Gabe said: "I'd been making my own T-shirts for a while but remember talking about Wes's goal after the match and I thought about making a T-shirt of the celebrations."
From that initial idea, Gabe has since created a range of T-shirts for fans of Premier League teams.
One of his most popular has been of Sergio Aguero's 2012 title-winning strike for Manchester City, as well as Jerzy Dudek's penalty save to win Liverpool the 2005 Champions League title.
Gabe adds his own twist to the images by including newspaper reports of the incident, and paint to capture movement within the picture.
Latest creations include celebrating the achievements of teams that have played at Wembley in the Capital One Cup and FA Cup this season.
Business has been so brisk for the former West Bridgford School student that he has stopped studying for an art foundation qualification at Central College in order to focus on his venture.
His aim now is to launch two new T-shirt ranges ahead of the start of the World Cup next month.
One range, called Blood, Sweat and Tears, captures ten memorable moments from England matches over the years.
The collection includes Forest legend and in-coming manager Stuart Pearce's reaction to scoring for England in a penalty shoot-out against Spain in Euro '96.
Gabe said: "The England collection shows the passion that we have despite our lack of success, and love for the occasion.
"The 'blood' is that moment when Terry Butcher played with his head bandaged, the 'sweat' is inspired by Psycho, and the tears is obviously Gazza at Italia '90."
He added: "A lot of other football T-shirts are quite bland and straight forward – I like to be quite rough and make it look like a piece of art."
Another collection, called World Cup Fever, focuses on players from other nations who have contributed iconic moments in the competition's history.
They include one inspired by Cameroon striker Roger Milla's corner-flag dance celebration at Italia '90, and legendary afro-haired Columbian Carlos Valderrama.
But there remains a glaring omission from Gabe's work – T-shirts inspired by his beloved Forest.
He said: "I might do a collection and have a bit of fun with it.
"Obviously the European Cup wins and Cloughie would be in there, and I also think one of Stan Collymore. All my brothers loved him when he played for us, and I was born the year he was top scorer.
"For me, I'd like to do one of the Julian Bennett goal against Yeovil which got us back up to the Championship. I'm also hoping with Psycho in charge we'll soon have more moments to capture."
Gabe has not yet created a Notts County theme T-shirt either, but says he may do so should the Magpies secure their League One survival on Saturday.
He said: "I'm hoping to do a special range for all teams who get promoted or avoid relegation on the last day. I might do a 'Great Escape' one if County survive."
For more details about Gabe's work, visit www.art-of-football.co.uk.
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