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# The Daily Star comes out with a statue of Augustus bearing the England captain's face and a CAESAR MOMENT splash
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/daily-star-vyshli-so-statuei-avgusta-s-litsom-kapitana-sbornoi-i-vynosom-caesar-moment/
- Published: 2021-07-11T12:17:43.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:40:53.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: In the Press, London, Observations, Pop Culture, Rome, Humour

Well, well... What might it signify, to portray Harry Kane as a Roman before England's match against Italy? Can the image of Kane as a statue be taken as mockery of his immobility? And is the Caesar moment, by any chance, a reference to the occasion when you had advanced to the furthest north-west of your empire and promptly forgot what you had gone there for? And which Caesar is meant: Julius, of whom most readers will think, cut down in his prime on the eve of a fresh conquest and never able to subdue England? Or perhaps Claudius? Or, after all, Augustus, who is technically a Caesar too? Is there an allusion here to the descent of the English from post-Roman invaders and settlers? The text box even carries a quotation from Shakespeare, spoken by Mark Antony.

I doubt I am the only one perplexed. History, geography, truth, fiction: all of it here is disturbing to the point of embarrassment. But the chief cause for anxiety ought to be tied to a possible Italian victory, which would most definitely be a Caesar moment.