Framed by the EURO 2008 – the European Football Championship taking place in Austria and Switzerland – Paul Pfeiffer’s multi-channel video and sound installation explores the 1966 World Cup Final between England and Germany at Wembley, directing the gaze towards the vital element of the stadium: the crowd. Pfeiffer is intrigued by the multitudes that flock to the stadium to watch and cheer and worship, to lose themselves and find themselves in mass communion with their heroes on the field of play. By isolating the crowd as the stadium’s constitutive moment The Saints questions topoi such as identification, historiography, universal transferability of pop cultural moments and fanatic fan culture. > >