KANE A GENT

It has been a splendid day and despite some rain, the game at Huddersfield was largely bathed in sunshine, though for the Terriers supporters were not bathed in success. As we were assessing the game afterwards, my colleague David Wood, mentioned that Harry Kane had only been sent off once is his career. that got my juices flowing.

Towards the end of the match, which ended 0-4 to Tottenham Hotspur, when Harry Kane was substituted (socially or tactically) by his manager, the whole stadium applauded him off the pitch. It was generous from the home supporters who had suffered a torrid time.
Kane scored twice and the writing is on the wall for the Yorkshire club who will suffer a few more "drubbings" like this through the season. What they need to do is pick up points from clubs similar to them i.e. those clubs who are under invested, and the Terriers must not lose heart.

Harry Kane is a gentleman and I hope that any youngsters watching him at the John Smith's stadium this afternoon, will have had somebody nearby to point out his finer movements and moments. Kane is a clever forward, honest, hard working, strong and clinically. Spurs were 3-0 in double quick time and a final goal in the last minute sealed the result.

So Harry Kane has "previous" with the Huddersfield club who last played Spurs on March 28th 1972 in the old First Division in a 1-1 draw. Kane was not involved.

Kane played for Ridgeway Rovers in 1999 as a youngster, then went to Arsenal in 2001-2 and Spurs from 2004. Having made his Spurs first team debut against Hearts in the European League on 25th August 2011, he is now their talisman from whom he had loan moments with Leyton Orient 2011, Millwall 2012, Norwich 2012-13 and Leicester 2013.

In this period he played for various England teams (U17) etc through to his goal scoring debut for the England full team on March 27th 2015.

It was at Huddersfield playing for Leyton Orient that Kane was sent off for his only time (so far). Two yellows led to his dismissal and Orient were two down and a man down. But they came back to draw 2-2.

The two clubs have met 41 times with Huddersfield winning 16 times and Spurs 12, the rest were drawn of course. Most of these matches were played from the first meeting in 1920 (after spurs had joined the Football League) through to the start of the Second World War (actually 1936), a time when Spurs were rising from the Southern League and Huddersfield were basking in the success of the great manager, Herbert Chapman.

This afternoon the home crowd realised that by the time Kane had tucked his second they were in a different class. It was damage limitation and Spurs going through the motions for much of the match, the Yorkshire crowd remained stoic.