article_snippet: 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 a staggering £425,000.
article_snippet: 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.
article_snippet: The granite sculpture details all of England's losses between 1874 and 1998 .
article_snippet: Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan said: 'Carved into it are all the defeats of England's national football team.
article_snippet: It was first exhibited in 1999 and It sale comes in the wake of one of England's worst performance at an international tournament in recent memory, after they crashed out of the 2014 World Cup without a single win.
highlights_snippet: Monument lists every England football defeat between 1874 and 1998 .
  
highlights_snippet: Monument has fetched £425,000 as part of Sotherby's Bear Witness art sale .