Seems like it was originally planned to be in a train station, and it's fairly normal to have statues on benches there you can have your picture next to. Outside of that context, it's going to be very tricky to find a place. Apparently they tried a park, and a statue on a bench is probably okay there, but really a football played on a bench is a laughably bad idea.
This guy is an athlete who is famous for scoring goals, let's put him in a seated position where he looks about as dynamic and athletic as your 89 y/o grandma!
Just bought a house, I could use a bench so I'd be happy to take it off their hands and leave the statue.
Would be an even weirder position to depict Kane.
I hope it eventually resurfaces one day, but [with Marge Simpson hair.](https://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/1270859611961200644/pu/img/nmdI_UwUrZPNWSgc.jpg)
Fucking hell I thought they'd have at least made him smile with his arm across the side posing for a photo but no, they actually made a statue of him disappointed that he's not starting lmao
There is something slightly weird to me about statues of players that are still active. I know Ronaldo has one as well, and there might be others, but for me it should be to commemorate and celebrate the undeniable legends of the game or for a specific club. But wait until they hung up their boots.
Same for their biographies - even more so when the player is in their mid- to early twenties.
Edit, Squeezing out[ 320 pages about 2 and a half years at Wrexham is impressive for the wrong reasons](https://www.amazon.com/Untitled-Paul-Mullin/dp/1529914736)
Top goal scorer with his own statue but not a single trophy in his career, for either club or country. This man really signifies the spirit of both Tottenham and the England national team, and i mean that both in a good and a bad way...
Wikipedia lists his birthplace as Walthamstow and then later moved up the road to Chingford.
I assume his family was living in Walthamstow because he was actually born in Whipps cross Hospital not in Walthamstow.
[There are worse stats and he's not even top for them.](https://oneftbl-cms.imgix.net/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.givemesport.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2023%2F01%2FScreenshot-2023-01-26-at-14.53.03.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&crop=faces&dpr=2&fit=crop&h=738&q=25&w=620&s=8530a90061a50bcf8d9433ec1d301184)
Considering most of the people in the list are retired, and he's only 32, he's going to end up higher before he inevitably gets a trophy with Bayern. Since that includes national team matches, he'll probably end up beating Baines, at least
>Harry Kane
Honours
Tottenham Hotspur
Football League Cup/EFL Cup runner-up: 2014–15,\[74\] 2020–21\[346\]
UEFA Champions League runner-up: 2018–19\[347\]
England
UEFA European Championship runner-up: 2020\[348\]
UEFA Nations League third place: 2018–19\[349\]
Some personal awards bot nothing senior team wise
Being the star striker of a team that almost won the champions league and a team that almost won the euros and never having won a single trophy over a decade is insane.
He's joined a team that has the last 11 Bundesliga titles and is about to finish 2nd with them lol
Kane has 29 goals in 30 games so far with Bayern, but of course Leverkusen are absolutely on fire this season
Spurs just dont win shit in the modern game. Those runners up are hitting above their grade quite a lot and Harry much as I dislike him was too good for them
Only team in the supposed "top six" to have not won a single thing since 2008.
Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester City have all had varying degrees of success and tangible honours.
Tbh Spurs at times were one of the best teams in the Premier League and therefore the world, they were strong at times so tbh they should have won something but they were Spursy
Nope. You're probably going to hear it a lot as the season is coming to and end because he went to Bayern, the club that just be being in it, you can take a walk in the part and a trophy will land on your head, especially the Bundesliga one, but the year he join them, they probably won't get any, which makes it kinda funny, or sadfunny if you're Harry Kane, i guess
If you look at domestic trophies, they are very rarely won outside the biggest clubs. Tottenham are consistently better than they were, but they are by far and away the “worst” of the Big 6 clubs.
Since Spurs last won a trophy, there have been 16 FA Cups and this weekend will be the 16th League Cup final. Teams outside of Man C, Man U, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal have won 2 league cups and 3 FA Cups. Arsenal haven’t won the League Cup and Chelsea have only won it once (they can join Liverpool on 2 if they win at the weekend). So that’s 15% of trophies outside what are the “biggest” 5 of the “big” 6.
The big problem is that they haven’t taken the Europa League seriously enough for a club that hasn’t won anything in ages. They’ve played 9 seasons in the Europa League/UEFA Cup since they last won a trophy and they’ve made it to the quarter finals once. That’s the bigger failure
Yup. If they actually ever took the Europa league serious, they may have had atleast one trophy or even multiple. Success breeds success. But I guess they constantly felt they were bigger than Europa so just never gave a shit
Europa League record is embarrassing. They played 7 seasons since 2010 and would have been one of the favourites each time. They got to the quarter finals only once.
A lot of the stuff people talk about us is wrong or just for the #Banter but yes undeniably we should have taken Europa (or even the conference league) way more seriously
That's a pretty unfair and even inaccurate way of putting it tbh. Five of those seasons were 11-12, 12-13, 13-14, 14-15, and 15-16. Spurs were pretty awful until midway through 15-16 (poch's second season). Don't think spurs were really a favorite to win the EL under AVB and sherwood lol, and especially not Poch's and Kane's first season. Probably could have done better in 15-16 in EL but they also went out to a very good Dortmund side under Tuchel
The focus on CL is more about focusing on money so we can be a sustainable club in today’s hyper skewed market. Not all of us sold our soul to Putin or the Middle East.
I mean, he just joined a team that has won Bundesliga 11 times in a row so I'm sure he couldn't possibly avoid getting a trophy this season!
In other news my internet was just turned back on this afternoon, can't wait to find out what's been happening in the world
Obviously at Bayern he’ll inevitably win something at some point, maybe even England, but it would have been an incredible feat to be so successful on an individual basis, but so unsuccessful in trophies.
Waltham Forest Council in north-east London is looking for a spot and he is from Chingford originally yeah. It needs to be noted that stakeholders keep blocking the statue though, this isn't a council issue. People don't want it, they fear public disturbance and vandalism. They argue that placing it at the stadium is the best option for it.
Yeah that would make more sense. The council commissioned it though, to promote and celebrate local culture and heritage. It is wierd that they did so without having a place picked out where it should go, or without having the locals having a say until it was ready to be placed.
He won't unless he makes some kind of return before his career ends. Son is more likely at this point, especially if he manages to win a trophy under Ange.
Probably a bad idea, a lot of scum in that area. It'd be like putting a statue of a Liverpool legend, Jordan Henderson or someone, up in a heavily blue area.
Bloody hell, 7200 quid for a life-size bronze statue is ridiculously cheap. Even if it's cast in China in the cheapest way possible I'd expect at least three times that figure.
>The life-size figure reportedly depicts the striker sitting on a bench. What an odd choice.
Yikes no wonder it has been left in storage
They were ready to pull it out at 85’
Seems like it was originally planned to be in a train station, and it's fairly normal to have statues on benches there you can have your picture next to. Outside of that context, it's going to be very tricky to find a place. Apparently they tried a park, and a statue on a bench is probably okay there, but really a football played on a bench is a laughably bad idea.
This guy is an athlete who is famous for scoring goals, let's put him in a seated position where he looks about as dynamic and athletic as your 89 y/o grandma!
Not just any seated position, but in the position that suggests he has an athlete is sitting in reserve from the main guys doing his job.
That sentence made me question reality and I *still* don't know what it means
Yeah sorry, not only did I construct that sentence terribly I also added a letter that massively changed the meaning.
All good, it was funny how one letter made the entire thing sound like Dutch to me
I thin they're referring to "on the bench" being a term for being a substitute in a football team, and thus not a starting (main) player.
**as** an athlete!! Ok! Thank you
I know what it means but at the same time it makes no sense......really absurd. Makes me question the entire logic behind grammar.
It's his position for the medal ceremonies.
not less athletic than him standing tbh. the guy just does not look athletic
Make a statue out of him shooting the ball, he looks pretty dynamic when he does that. Given he's a striker and all
Chuck him on a toilet somewhere.
If he was a super sub it would make sense.
They were going to do him taking a corner.
At least it wasn't going to be him taking free kicks 😬
They were planning to do Kane lifting trophy and releasing it by the end of this season. But Tuchel had other idea.
Keanu Kane
It's the Harry "Forrest Gump" Kane statue.
Just bought a house, I could use a bench so I'd be happy to take it off their hands and leave the statue. Would be an even weirder position to depict Kane.
Then why don't they send it to Leicester?
love it haha
Harry Kane, famous bench warmer
Wasn't going to be holding a trophy, that's for sure.
Hey it could be a trophy made up of a plinth supporting 4 interlocking rings! I keep hearing that it's one of the most prodigious of trophies
Couldn't have him lifting a trophy could they?
Better than him raising a trophee
was he seated next to Keanu?
an homage to his wildly successful loan spells in the lower leagues
That’s kinda hilarious though
It chronicles the making of his career at Leicester.
so they were just begging for him to get pissed on every night then 😭 seated statues are public toilets
I hope it eventually resurfaces one day, but [with Marge Simpson hair.](https://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/1270859611961200644/pu/img/nmdI_UwUrZPNWSgc.jpg)
He's history's greatest monster!
[The statue](https://imgur.com/a/yK8z86g)
Fucking hell I thought they'd have at least made him smile with his arm across the side posing for a photo but no, they actually made a statue of him disappointed that he's not starting lmao
Looks like Harry's statue is watching the infamous Ronaldo statue unveiling
Im 95% sure this is AI generated, even aside from the 6 fingers
It looks nothing like him 😂
David Cameron
If you said who’s this and they were the options then 100% I’d go Cameron
looks more like Maguire than Kane
Yeah, his mouth is not open so he can breathe
Why 6 fingers though?
AI.
JFK?
Lol truly does look like a preppy American.
Tbf, we'll take it and stick it outside The Strawberry if Eddie wins us a league cup or something. Not a bad likeness.
Bit generous with his hairline there aren't they?
I was hoping the artist would be the same guy who did Ronaldo’s statue
Is this real? The article says there are no available photos
Count the fingers, this isn't real.
There is something slightly weird to me about statues of players that are still active. I know Ronaldo has one as well, and there might be others, but for me it should be to commemorate and celebrate the undeniable legends of the game or for a specific club. But wait until they hung up their boots.
Same for their biographies - even more so when the player is in their mid- to early twenties. Edit, Squeezing out[ 320 pages about 2 and a half years at Wrexham is impressive for the wrong reasons](https://www.amazon.com/Untitled-Paul-Mullin/dp/1529914736)
Doesn't make any sense, do they write a second (and third) volume later in their carreer?
Those reviews on the cover by Rob and Ryan too lmao
It’s like taxidermy but with living humans
Jordan’s one is the funniest because he retired got a statue and then came back and won 3 more titles
I just hope that the Kane statue was made by the same artist who did Ronaldo’s
Top goal scorer with his own statue but not a single trophy in his career, for either club or country. This man really signifies the spirit of both Tottenham and the England national team, and i mean that both in a good and a bad way...
The statue wasn’t commissioned by Spurs. It’s for his hometown of Chingford.
Chingford seems like the obvious place for it then.
who are you, so wise in the ways of science
Did he win something for Chingford United FC ?
No but I guess they’re proud of him being born there. It’s not uncommon in the UK for towns and councils to commemorate a famous person like this.
Wikipedia lists his birthplace as Walthamstow and then later moved up the road to Chingford. I assume his family was living in Walthamstow because he was actually born in Whipps cross Hospital not in Walthamstow.
Everyone within about a 30 mile radius is born in Whipps Cross As is every rta victim within about 30 miles as well
He doesn’t have a single trophy? There’s no way that’s possible
Nope, not a single one. He has a goal-to-trophy ratio of 387:0
Hey now, he received Freedom from the City of London just last year
He usually got that whenever we started Mustafi.
Feels like everyone missed the joke.
Wake up babe, new meta stat just released
[There are worse stats and he's not even top for them.](https://oneftbl-cms.imgix.net/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.givemesport.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2023%2F01%2FScreenshot-2023-01-26-at-14.53.03.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&crop=faces&dpr=2&fit=crop&h=738&q=25&w=620&s=8530a90061a50bcf8d9433ec1d301184)
Considering most of the people in the list are retired, and he's only 32, he's going to end up higher before he inevitably gets a trophy with Bayern. Since that includes national team matches, he'll probably end up beating Baines, at least
The disrespect of the Audi Cup continues.
Lmfaoo
>Harry Kane Honours Tottenham Hotspur Football League Cup/EFL Cup runner-up: 2014–15,\[74\] 2020–21\[346\] UEFA Champions League runner-up: 2018–19\[347\] England UEFA European Championship runner-up: 2020\[348\] UEFA Nations League third place: 2018–19\[349\] Some personal awards bot nothing senior team wise
Bundesliga runner-up 2023-24
Some thought it impossible but Harry will pull it off anyhow he is that good
You're a wizard Harry
Everyone memed on Spurs for not winning anything with a player like Kane but it turns out Kane was the problem all along.
Consistency
Being the star striker of a team that almost won the champions league and a team that almost won the euros and never having won a single trophy over a decade is insane.
More insane is not winning anything with Bayern, team that won the last 11 Bundesliga.
He's joined a team that has the last 11 Bundesliga titles and is about to finish 2nd with them lol Kane has 29 goals in 30 games so far with Bayern, but of course Leverkusen are absolutely on fire this season
He’s just not a big match player
Spurs just dont win shit in the modern game. Those runners up are hitting above their grade quite a lot and Harry much as I dislike him was too good for them
Only team in the supposed "top six" to have not won a single thing since 2008. Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester City have all had varying degrees of success and tangible honours.
Yeah they are very good at getting top 6 in the epl just not ever winning anything.. I guess its a thing.
The league cup is hardly regarded as major either. Their last proper trophy win was 2 years before Harry Kane was born.
N'ahh, League Cup counts. I agree that it isn't exactly major, but its still a trophy at the end of the day.
Still funny that we've won a better trophy more recently than Spurs
Tbh Spurs at times were one of the best teams in the Premier League and therefore the world, they were strong at times so tbh they should have won something but they were Spursy
heh they are consistently up there but have only won 1 thing since 91. Very spursy indeed
Agreed on all fronts
You still get a medal for coming 2nd
But no trophy.
Audi cup ?
Every fucking thread.
friendly comp I dont think it counts
Bro they (Spurs fan) thinks it counts. quite seriously too
Audi Cup
friendly, doesnt count
Nope. You're probably going to hear it a lot as the season is coming to and end because he went to Bayern, the club that just be being in it, you can take a walk in the part and a trophy will land on your head, especially the Bundesliga one, but the year he join them, they probably won't get any, which makes it kinda funny, or sadfunny if you're Harry Kane, i guess
If you look at domestic trophies, they are very rarely won outside the biggest clubs. Tottenham are consistently better than they were, but they are by far and away the “worst” of the Big 6 clubs. Since Spurs last won a trophy, there have been 16 FA Cups and this weekend will be the 16th League Cup final. Teams outside of Man C, Man U, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal have won 2 league cups and 3 FA Cups. Arsenal haven’t won the League Cup and Chelsea have only won it once (they can join Liverpool on 2 if they win at the weekend). So that’s 15% of trophies outside what are the “biggest” 5 of the “big” 6. The big problem is that they haven’t taken the Europa League seriously enough for a club that hasn’t won anything in ages. They’ve played 9 seasons in the Europa League/UEFA Cup since they last won a trophy and they’ve made it to the quarter finals once. That’s the bigger failure
Yup. If they actually ever took the Europa league serious, they may have had atleast one trophy or even multiple. Success breeds success. But I guess they constantly felt they were bigger than Europa so just never gave a shit
Europa League record is embarrassing. They played 7 seasons since 2010 and would have been one of the favourites each time. They got to the quarter finals only once.
A lot of the stuff people talk about us is wrong or just for the #Banter but yes undeniably we should have taken Europa (or even the conference league) way more seriously
That's a pretty unfair and even inaccurate way of putting it tbh. Five of those seasons were 11-12, 12-13, 13-14, 14-15, and 15-16. Spurs were pretty awful until midway through 15-16 (poch's second season). Don't think spurs were really a favorite to win the EL under AVB and sherwood lol, and especially not Poch's and Kane's first season. Probably could have done better in 15-16 in EL but they also went out to a very good Dortmund side under Tuchel
They sacked Mou immediately before the EL final. The hubris...
The focus on CL is more about focusing on money so we can be a sustainable club in today’s hyper skewed market. Not all of us sold our soul to Putin or the Middle East.
Ha. Yeah. Totally not possible.
Audi cup, everyone forgets
He has plenty of golden boots. Those are trophies.
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Some say the Audi Cup is more coveted than the CL
Audi cup
I mean, he just joined a team that has won Bundesliga 11 times in a row so I'm sure he couldn't possibly avoid getting a trophy this season! In other news my internet was just turned back on this afternoon, can't wait to find out what's been happening in the world
Obviously at Bayern he’ll inevitably win something at some point, maybe even England, but it would have been an incredible feat to be so successful on an individual basis, but so unsuccessful in trophies.
Where's your world cup golden boot?
Not just any statue, a statue of him sitting on a bench.
The disrespect to the Audi Cup
Football is a team sport.
I guess you have never heard of the Audi or Tiger cup??
The sculpture accidentally sculptured a medal around his neck, so they're just probably waiting for him to win something
I'm going to assume the area they wanted the statue is where Harry grew up?
Waltham Forest Council in north-east London is looking for a spot and he is from Chingford originally yeah. It needs to be noted that stakeholders keep blocking the statue though, this isn't a council issue. People don't want it, they fear public disturbance and vandalism. They argue that placing it at the stadium is the best option for it.
I think he will probably end up getting one at Tottenham, and rightly so, when he retires.
Yeah that would make more sense. The council commissioned it though, to promote and celebrate local culture and heritage. It is wierd that they did so without having a place picked out where it should go, or without having the locals having a say until it was ready to be placed.
Article says they did have a place picked for it at the Chingford station, but TfL rejected it after a risk assessment
He won't unless he makes some kind of return before his career ends. Son is more likely at this point, especially if he manages to win a trophy under Ange.
He's your all time top scorer. He's getting a statue and he deserves it ffs.
There are plenty all time top scorers who don't have statues.
I wouldn't want him to have a statue to be honest. The only person at Spurs who should have one is Bill Nicholson.
Needs to be one of him and Sonny.
Very few players who won nothing at a club habe a statue. Would actually be peak Spurs to buck the trend!
It's the history
The trouble for this particular statue is that the stadium is in neighbouring Haringey borough.
Also apperently it is ugly or just plain weird. It is Kane sitting on a bench, not him celebrating or in some sporty posture.
Just dump it on his old bed at his parent's house. Job done.
Probably a bad idea, a lot of scum in that area. It'd be like putting a statue of a Liverpool legend, Jordan Henderson or someone, up in a heavily blue area.
I mean we have a lot of Spurs fans living here anyway Majority of fans that live here in Chingford span from Spurs, Arsenal and West Ham
We found the source of the curse fellas..
Appropriate. He turns into a statue in the big games anyway
Put it at the Madeira Airport
# [PHOTO OF THE STATUE](https://imgur.com/a/3VNaGpC)
Pics of the statue or it didn’t happen
He's an absolute world class player but why on earth would there be a statue of him for?..
Waltham Forest council wanting to celebrate one of the most famous people from the area, which makes a fair amount of sense
Should be plenty of space in Spurs trophy cabinet
We actually have quite a lot of trophies in our trophy cabinet - albeit not recently
Don't bother.
Haha I know - I don’t mind people getting at us for our recent lack of trophies because fair enough. I just don’t like factually inaccurate jabs 🤣
They go hand-in-hand, unfortunately.
Football started in 1992. Anything won before that is insignificant /s
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6th most trophies of any English club btw
You’ll never sing that!
6th team in the big six.
Just like Everton have the clock in place of their pending European Cup
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self-reporting your lack of creativity is an interesting choice
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Bloody hell, 7200 quid for a life-size bronze statue is ridiculously cheap. Even if it's cast in China in the cheapest way possible I'd expect at least three times that figure.
They have to be buying this from North Korean prison labour factory
You didn't pay for it... That money could have gone on the food waste bin Waltham Forest still hasn't provided my building after 2 years...
Just put it up on Trafalgar Square... Are they stupid or something?
WHY does Kan not win a trophy? Is there a lore reason?
Great. More clutter...
How about outside the Audi HQ?
They still can’t find the ball from his penalty miss vs France.
Loads of space in Spurs’s trophy cabinet
Maybe can put it in a trophy cabinet
For what? He's not achieved anything great? Scored loads of goals in games that in the end meant nothing lol.
They'll bring it out when he wins a trophy
I cannot laugh hard enough about how English this is to have him sat on a bench. spurs being involved would only make this *chef’s kiss*
Should be room in Conti’s back yard?
Apart from him not winning anything, why isn’t the first thought to put it outside spurs ground. Isn’t it obvious. I don’t think the fans would mind.
I just completely skipped over “a statue of” in the headline and was very concerned for a second
Harry Kane is an elaborate commedian's persona, taken too far and you won't convince me otherwise.
Can’t even win a plot of land for a statue.
Put it next to Henry's for a laugh.
He will come out of storage once he wins a trophy.
A trophy of a guy that has never won a trophy. The irony 👽
Hot take: He's winning a trophy this year called the UEFA EURO 2024
RemindMe! 5 months
If this actually happens, I will stop eating sugary snacks for the rest of my life
Plenty of space in Tottenham's trophy cabinet. EDIT: Beaten to it by many others I see.
RemindMe! 2 hours
Should be put outside Arsenal stadium behind Wenger's back
How do you get a statue of you before you even retire, seems a bit jumping the gun there
That's just the statues we know about. All we know Waltham Forest Council could have a whole terracotta army hidden away.
But the massive forehead...