Statues

Fantasy Bob doesn't wish to court controversy but statues seem to be in the news for one reason or another.  Having grown up in the sub-tropical micro climate of Aberdeen, there is one statue that is impressed on his memory more than any other.

It is a monumental representation of William Wallace and it stands opposite His Majesty's Theatre.  Why it is there is a mystery.  Wallace had no connection with Aberdeen, even less with His Majesty's Theatre.  It was erected in 1888, over 500 years after Wallace's gory execution.  It was funded by a legacy left for that purpose by an Edinburgh man, John Steill, a resident of the Grange, where FB's beloved Carlton Cricket Club have their ground. Steill was a staunch admirer of Wallace and an opponent of the Union between Scotland and England which he fervently wished to dissolve.

History does not reveal whether John Steill hatched his plan for his mighty statue as he watched the Carlton of his day.  But it would seem likely.  Cricket obviously impressed him.  What else could have lead him to commission a pose in which his hero is signalling a no-ball?