The Daily Star comes out with a statue of Augustus bearing the England captain's face and a CAESAR MOMENT splash

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.