Quirky World: Artwork puts boot in with 124 years of defeats

ENGLAND: A monument chronicling 124 years of England’s footballing hurt by listing every defeat suffered by the team between 1874 and 1998 has sold at auction for £425,000 (€600,000).

Starting with a 2-1 defeat to Scotland, the magnificent granite sculpture charts more than a century of England’s footballing failures, finishing with a 2-1 defeat at the hands of Romania in the 1998 World Cup.

The gloomy untitled piece was created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan and was auctioned by Sotheby’s as part of its Bear Witness art sale, which has already generated £26.5m.