Muru and Lorraine Walters, surrounded by Muru's work. John Ashton, photo but somehow to be offered, through colour, a new kind of feeling, an adventure for the eye. ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ We asked Muru how his fellow footballers looked upon his work. He admitted wryly that some of them would say this or that painting stank, but they seemed as a whole to accept his profession philosophically. He admitted also, as all true painters will, to being from time to time consumed by his work, to be able to think of nothing else, with the world well lost, and his wife Lorraine told us that when the fever of creation was upon him, she knew better than to disturb him. It seemed to us that in his dedication to his work, combined with his unusual distinction as a footballer, Muru Walters may be, in his way, affirming the ideal of the all-round man, so cherished in the Europe of the Renaissance, but since largely discredited by the modern European with his feeling that a man must be a specialist or do nothing well. Muru Walters demonstrates in his life that the combinations of hand, mind and eye which serve him on the football field can also serve him in the studio. May be prosper on both fields.