About this artwork

“Do not gloat over me, my enemies! For though I fall, I will rise again. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.” Micah 7:8

1966 when England Soccer Team won their first and the only World Cup Trophy, since then, the honour of winning Euro and the international cup has eluded the Three Lions Team. The English Team making it to the final of Euro 2020 gave the English soccer fans hope of winning an important trophy in 50 years until their hope was thwarted by the Italians’ fouls play. The Villainous hand of Giorgio Chiellini that tugged Saka’s Shirt denying him the opportunity to score the winning goal for England brought the mind of another villainous hand in the soccer history tagged “The hand of God”.

An apology to the Italian people, I must give the Italian team captain a devilish face for pulling down the England soccer star deliberately and even claim he put “Kiricocho curse on Bukayo Saka to miss the penalty. I created Saka in my usual style of Roses and Thorns as undoubtedly, missing the penalty and the racial abuse by English racist hoodlums will make the day one of the thorny days of his young life. The Rose is for Saka’s successful soccer career. Darkness engulfed the mind of the young England star as he missed the penalty which was depicted with the dark background that surrounded his head with an agonising look.

The fact of life is that not everyone will always wish you well and some may even pull you down. To succeed in life, a courageous and strong person will have to get up, dust off the dirt and push on towards the goal.