Poor old Harry Kane.  Surely he deserves better?  He is England’s all-time leading goal-scorer and has captained his country throughout one of the most successful periods in the history of the national football team, and yet how is he commemorated?  By a dodgy-looking statue, which was mothballed for five years, and finally unveiled round the back of a sports centre in Waltham Forest.  I mean, even Michael Jackson got a more prestigious footballing location than that.

Okay, I admit, the sports centre has historic significance for Kane himself, and it is lovely for the current crop of young hopefuls playing for Ridgeway Rovers, Kane’s boyhood club, who now train there.  But, even so.

The likeness of the sculpture reminds me rather of a cross between Ming the Merciless and Albert Steptoe and, surely, any statue of Harry Kane should be located in a place where it will benefit from greater national exposure? 

Step up Tottenham.  Step up Wembley.  Otherwise, we risk the possibility of a fitting statue to celebrate the achievements of England’s greatest goal-scorer being erected in Munich.

Germany.

© Donnie Blake

Donnie Blake gets a bit nationalistic.