I’m presuming that, while strolling along a street in Shanghai, the artist spotted a cigarette packet damply splayed, and thought, “That looks exactly like the new Tranmere away strip”.

And there you have it. Leo Fitzmaurice is a master of re-presentation; of deconstructing context and heading off on another narrative, or other such art-related nomenclature. I’m presuming that one day, while gazing at the floor of a café in Sao Paulo, or strolling, head-down, along a street in Shanghai, the artist spotted a besmirched cigarette packet damply splayed, and thought, “That looks exactly like the new Tranmere away strip”. And there, or thereabouts, began a new obsession.

It is not long before cigarettes in this country will be sold from under the counter, in identical plain brown packets, be they Camel Lights or Peel Orange Menthol (both of which are collected here).

For better or worse, the tobacco industry is global, so too the game of football. Both have been pulled and pushed about by forces our robustly smoking grandfathers would barely recognise. Leo Fitzmaurice, Liverpool based, much-travelled artist, gathers together far more than street litter in this piece. The Chinese and Japanese ‘room’ is like a trophy cupboard, so gold and silver-embossed is their packaging. Make of that what you will.

To be honest, I didn’t get much of the pleasure of football or tobacco products from the piece. So saying, there’s a certain graphic intensity and a smiling acknowledgement that will follow you around the room. This is whimsy and thoughtfulness at once. And it is another in the line-up that makes Creative Director Jane Anderson’s Cube gallery one of the best in town.

Post Match continues at Cube gallery, Manchester, until Aug 20. cube.org.uk