If you have been to the same school as David Beckham, then you might have a football pedigree? Harry Kane went to Golden Balls' school, the Chingford Foundation School in Essex. Kane played with Ridgeway Rovers and then Arsenal as a junior from 2001, trialled at Watford in 2004 and then Spurs found him in 2004-09, when he went "senior". Unsure about him he was loaned out to Millwall, Norwich and Leicester until he made his mark with the Spurs. In 2010 he made his debut for England U17s and was a full international in 2015.
He was the first Premier league player to score 6 hat tricks in a calendar year. His treble strikes include 3 against Burnley and 3 against Southampton and is looking for a third in succession, a feat not done since Jack Balmer of Liverpool (photo below), who scored hat tricks against Portsmouth, Derby and Arsenal in succession during November 1946, helping Liverpool to the First Division Championship. Balmer was an Evertonian and was expected to succeed Dixie Dean, but ended up signing for the rivals who had a better pay offer for him! Note how Dean gets involved in the Kane story.
Kane scored 39 goals in 36 games in 2017. This beat Messi and Ronaldo's score tally, a record and 27 in 38 in 2015.
Scoring at the present rate, which is 1.07 games per goal, he is destined to score 500 goals by the age of 31! For England and Tottenham he has notched 56 goals in 52 games.
Premier League scorers who nearly match Harry's strike rate are:
Alan Shearer 36 in 42 in 1995 and 30 in 37 in 1994.
Robin van Persie 35 in 36 2011.
Thierry Henry 34 in 39 2004.
Les Ferdinand 30 in 34 1995.
Didier Drogba almost did this at Chelsea but have scored two successive hat tricks he failed to get the third in a 6-0 defeat against Wigan in 2010.
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