Lion symbol of sporting teams, from national association football teams such as England, Scotland and Singapore to famous clubs such as the Detroit Lions of the NFL, Chelsea and Aston Villa, a team of the English Premier League, and by the Premiership itself, Eintracht Braunschweig of the Bundesliga, and many smaller clubs around the world. Lions continue to appear in modern literature as characters including the messianic Aslan in "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" and following books from The Chronicles of Narnia series written by C. S. Lewis, and the comedic Cowardly Lion in L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful
The Man and the Lion that honesty outweighs boasting. In other versions, the lion asks who made the statue and refuses to take it as evidence on learning that it was a man. In the late Latin version of Ademar of Chabannes the lion takes the man to an amphitheatre to demonstrate what happens in reality, while William Caxton has the lion pounce on the man to make its point. But Jefferys Taylor argues facetiously, at the end of his "Aesop in Rhyme" (1828), that it is the fact that lions cannot sculpt which is the true proof of their inferiority. During the Middle Ages