LONDON (REUTERS).- An auction record for British painter Laurence Stephen Lowry was set on Thursday when his “The Football Match” from 1949 fetched 5.6 million pounds ($9.2 million) at Christie’s in London. The previous record for the artist best known for his industrial landscapes and tiny dark human figures was 3.8 million pounds set at Christie’s in 2007 for “Good Friday, Daisy Nook” dated 1946. Thursday’s price is also a new high for the entire 20th century British art sector. “The Football Match,” which combines an industrial setting of rooftops, billowing chimney stacks, spires and houses with incidental scenes of domestic life, had been expected to fetch 3.5-4.5 million p