Page 18 - Soccer360 Issue 105

2024
TITLE RACES
ABOVE:
Harry Kane of Munich (l) and Benjamin Henrichs of Leipzig fight for the ball.
LEFT:
Harry Kane celebrates for England
KANE TIME!
WORDS DEREK ROSS
Whoever player it is that attracts your weekly adoration
you would need to have a petrified heart, devoid of any warmth and impervious to the tender whispers of empathy not to feel some kind of
pity for Harry Kane. Despite the England captain, being both his
countries’ and Tottenham Hotspur’s greatest ever goal scorer he finds himself on the
end of the ongoing accusations of being a failure in the silverware department. I have been mulling this over for some considerable time and, was somewhat reticent to share this revelation in the certain knowledge that
mirthful castigation would be certain to rain down on me faster than a Harry Maguire defensive error!
But there must be something going on somewhere among the ethereal clouds in the footballing heavens? As if the man hasn’t suffered enough from accusations of trophy dodging, we now learn of a missing statue of the great man commissioned
by Waltham Forest Council back in 2019. Apparently, it depicted a life-sized Kane sitting on a bench, not something he’s ever been accustomed to, and was planned
to be erected at Chingford Overground Station where Kane was brought up. The £7,200 statue has lain in the council building during the intervening years becoming as anonymous as Eric Dier in a back four.
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