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Looks like terminator 2First look at Harry Kane statue hidden in storage for years: Waste of money or fitting tribute?
First look at Harry Kane statue hidden in storage for years
The Big Issue has obtained the first pictures of the unseen £7,200 Harry Kane statue, commissioned in 2019 by Waltham Forest Council.
How is it that hundreds of years ago artists could make super lifelike statues out of marble, but with all of our technology they makes statues that look like this?
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Harry Kane statue finally unveiled after being hidden from fans for years
THE first photographs of Harry Kane’s secret statue, which has sat hidden for years, have been revealed four years after the making. The sculpture of England and Tottenham record goal-scorer …
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Harry Kane honoured by ‘fugly’ statue that remained hidden for four years as fans say ‘we need to give up’
Scroll to see the proposed destinations and who rejected one plan for it
THE first photographs of Harry Kane's secret statue, which has sat hidden for years, have been revealed four years after the making.
- Katherine Walsh
- Published: 16:57, 20 Mar 2024
The sculpture of England and Tottenham record goal-scorer was commissioned by the borough of Waltham Forest in 2019.
Harry Kane's statue sat unused and hidden for yearsCredit: Big Issue/Waltham Forest Council/Sculpture Machine Ltd ID
It was commissioned by Waltham Forest Council in 2019Credit: Big Issue/Waltham Forest Council/Sculpture Machine Ltd
But fans have been left unimpressed for a host of reasonsCredit: Big Issue/Waltham Forest Council/Sculpture Machine Ltd
Under the headline ‘Waste of money or fitting tribute?’, The Big Issue magazine has published a series of pictures of an immortalised Kane sitting on a bench in football kit while resting a ball on his knee.
The statue has sat in storage because Waltham Forest Council has been unable to find a suitable location.
The council allocated £7,200 for the sculpture of the Chingford-raised footballer, who joined Bayern Munich in an £104m deal last summer.
But despite the organiser's best intentions, it seems fans believe yet another footballer's statue has been botched.
One fan wrote: "Councils can spend s***loads of money on a fugly statue but not collect your bins."
Another declared: "They could melt it back down and use it to fill pot holes and crumbling roads across the borough."
A third wrote: "We need to just give up on statues."
A fourth said: "What a terrible looking sculpture. Such a waste of public money."
Kane’s representatives said in February “the location of the statue is really important to us”, and that “when we get it right, we will be happy to go.”
Emma Best, one of the councillors who commissioned the statue, told the BBC she had spent “hours and hours” trying to find somewhere to put it.
Proposed locations included Chingford's Rail Station and Overground Station and Ridgeway Park, where Kane used to play as a youngster.
But the Overground site was rejected following a risk assessment by Transport for London, on the grounds it could be targeted by rival football fans.
Nice artistic licence with the trophyI hardly dare post this one. Oh, alright then...
It’s not as bad as that one but the Kane one is also not up to the standard you’d expect is it.
Very accurate…if it was Ryan gosling who played for usIt took AI about 10 seconds to do something about 30 million times better...
...it's probably got 3 legs though.
Kane is killing it there, Bayern are shite cos they got Tuchel the total overrated turd shite wanker
It does look like him in the closing credits to The Grey Man doesn't it?Very accurate…if it was Ryan gosling who played for us
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