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Fulham's awful Michael Jackson statue is very Al Fayed

Fulham's awful Michael Jackson statue is very Al FayedContext is everything. Fans of Fulham FC who may feel disconcerted by a statue of Michael Jackson placed near their home stands at the behest of club chairman Mohamed Al Fayed need only visit his former empire in nearby Knightsbridge to see where his taste in art is coming from. Harrods, which Fayed sold for £1.5bn last year, is still richly decorated with his artistic commissions. Statues of sphinxes beam in the Egyptian Hall, which also has a colossal pharaoh and rich inlays right out of a Hollywood fantasy of excess. The Egyptian staircase is even more ornate, and what's more, it works as an appropriately entertaining and daft decor for this emporium. If you are shopping at Harrods do you want the prosaic, the taciturn, the dour? The statue of Jackson Al Fayed commissioned after the star's death would have fitted right in with the memorial to Princess Diana and his son Dodi that he placed here.