‘Four lads in jeans’ meme made into statue in Birmingham

Artist was inspired by them Greek statues of old' and much-ridiculed Cristiano Ronaldo bust

History's greatest people have long been immortalised in statue form, from Julius Caesar to Admiral Lord Nelson. Now, a Birmingham artist has rendered four of his own city's men in bronze.

Local artist Tat Vision unveiled a statue of four lads in jeans" outside Birmingham New Street station on Saturday - in reference to a viral internet meme sparked from a photograph taken a few years ago.