Exactly, why mention manu! It dampens the apology, i***ts.
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Compare/contrast with the behaviour of Jack Wilshire and how he’s received on social media/in the press...
Yup.
Whatever people think of Kane, the next 4 games are very important for him.
He deserves all our support but it is not just one game where he has been short of his best and his poor spell started before his injury. Even the Brighton goal was less than emphatic.
It's a poor spell which is much worse than his August drought where he was missing chances.
Right now he is nowhere near the striker we know and salute.
He deserves all our support but it is not just one game where he has been short of his best and his poor spell started before his injury. Even the Brighton goal was less than emphatic.
It's a poor spell which is much worse than his August drought where he was missing chances.
Right now he is nowhere near the striker we know and salute.
Are you saying mocking people is a good thing?!
Banter means playful and friendly exchange of teasing remarks
Mocking means making fun of someone or something in a cruel way
There's nothing cruel here lol, it's just teasing him, that's all.Are you saying mocking people is a good thing?!
Banter means playful and friendly exchange of teasing remarks
Mocking means making fun of someone or something in a cruel way
Harry Kane has been enjoying a lot of recognition and praise, for his good performances but now he is going through a bad spell, it's only fair he receives something like this, which will motivate him to go back to his old-self where he could enjoy praise again.
You are talking nonsense.
No professional in any career should be teased or mocked in public that he had a bad day in the office, as your way to motivate that person. Especially when he is the best they have.
I hope England finish bottom in their World Cup group. Sorry guys.
Wooow this is still going.
This is beyond embarrassing for Liverpool FC. Oh wait sorry, no it's just epic banter
But did you watch the 2 goals? The one vs Stoke was going in regardless if Kane's shoulder hair touched it or not. For the Brighton goal , Son put in the 95% of the work for that goal. All Kane did was hit the ball hard, not even placed perfectly into a corneror anything. It went straight into the Brighton defender who couldnt deal with it. It was all pretty marginal.
So what? It doesn't mean he is, and I quote, going backwards
Harry Kane is England's golden boy – it's disgraceful he is the butt of FA and PFA jokes
Harry Kane is England's golden boy – it's disgraceful he is the butt of FA and PFA jokes
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Harry Kane has been ribbed in all quarters for claiming a goal against Stoke CREDIT: REUTERS
It has been a strange couple of weeks for Harry Kane. He has returned early from a bad ankle injury, has been lampooned for claiming a goal against Stoke City, has been mocked by the Football Association’s Twitter account and was even the butt of a joke by Ben Purkiss, the chairman of the Professional Footballers’ Association, in front of his peers at their awards evening on Sunday.
Kane could be forgiven, along with the rest of us, for having to Google exactly who Purkiss is after he “quipped”: “Harry Kane is so prolific that he is able to score without touching the ball.” A search will have shown the 34-year-old is a journeyman defender whose career started at Sheffield United but slid down from there. He is currently at League Two Swindon Town.
Nothing wrong with that, although quite why, as chairman of the PFA, the players’ union which is there to support its members, he felt it necessary to take the mickey out of Kane is another matter.
But that is the “bantz”, as the football world cringingly says, and Kane will obviously have been the recipient of far more vicious ribbing, not least in the Spurs dressing room since he appealed against the Premier League’s decision to award his side’s second goal against Stoke to Christian Eriksen. But at least that stays within the four walls. It is not an attempt to ridicule him in public by the FA or his own union. What is the point, Kane might wonder?
He was adamant he had touched Eriksen’s free-kick and the goal was eventually awarded to him as he attempts to chase down Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah to become the Premier League’s leading goalscorer for a third successive season. Such is Kane’s driven nature that it did not occur to him his behaviour would cause a fuss. He is fuelled by scoring goals, by winning and by making himself the best he can possibly be. Spend any time in his company and it is quickly apparent that whenever his career ends, no one will accuse him of not trying to wring out every last ounce of his talent: whether that is employing a personal chef, taking advice on sleep patterns, examining sports such as American football, for which he has a passion, or working with a sprint coach to try to make himself quicker.
Kane claimed the goal at Stoke because he is extremely driven to win accolades - at a personal and team levelCREDIT: PA
Kane is aware of the statistics, the comparisons, the career landmarks and that, alone, makes him a rarity among British footballers. He is unabashed in his desire to be the best and wants to be bracketed in the elite. It is part of his competitive instinct and there are not enough like him.
Kane wants to win personal, as well as team, honours. One dream is to win the Ballon d’Or; to be voted the world’s best player. And why not? If he does so then whoever he plays for – club and country – will have profited. Salah won the PFA Player of the Year award on Sunday and deservedly so. An Englishman has not won it since Wayne Rooney in 2009-10 and Kane is his country’s best hope of eventually ending that run.
Those close to Kane say he is unmoved by the recent ridicule although that does not quite tally with Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino claiming the 24-year-old had been “hurt” by the mockery after claiming his goal. For Kane it was a black-and-white issue. He is adamant the ball came off him and, therefore, it is his goal.
For the FA to then attempt to cash in on that theme was crass, stupid and immature. A tweet went out after Saturday’s FA Cup semi-final defeat by Manchester United, a game in which Kane was superbly shackled by United’s defence and struggled. The message was “What’s in your pocket, Chris?” with a video of defender Chris Smalling saying: “Harry Kane.”
Kane was ineffective up against Chris Smalling on SaturdayCREDIT: GETTY IMAGES
It was retweeted more than 20,000 times, provoking a huge response, much of it yet more ridicule aimed at Kane, before it was taken down. On the scale of gaffes by the FA – and that is quite an extensive scale – it is hardly huge, but what does it say about the organisation that it is so desperate to curry favour or be part of the zeitgeist that whoever was managing its social media account that day thought it would be funny to ridicule the man expected to captain England at the World Cup in a few weeks?
Unsurprisingly, the FA has written to Spurs and United who were not impressed by the tweet either, to apologise, which is fair enough, but what an idiotic, avoidable episode it is. I wonder what the reaction would have been in Portugal had the Portuguese Football Federation done that to Cristiano Ronaldo? Kane would be perfectly within his rights to question the FA’s motives and, maybe, tell it where to go the next time it asks him to promote a commercial venture for England.
There is no way the Portuguese FA would have responded in a similar way had Ronaldo done what Kane has CREDIT:REUTERS
Kane has been the golden boy of English football. He has not courted controversy, there is no juicy backstory. In fact, this is the first piece of negativity around him and it all stemmed from the heinous crime of him claiming a goal. Nothing more. It has, therefore, fuelled social media, which can be such a cesspit, with its memes and gifs which have gone way beyond attempts at humour, which is what the FA tried. It has been almost gleeful.
But why?
It now seems to be open season on Kane and however thick a skin he has, however impervious he is to criticism, and no one ultimately is, it does not help. Ask Gareth Southgate. England will go to the World Cup with it having been accepted that the biggest barrier to success at major tournaments is the mental pressure the players feel, how they freeze on the big stage. And here is the FA and the PFA messing with England’s biggest hope of actually not being humiliated for once by also taking the mickey out of him. Maybe I am being too po-faced. But that is not funny.
Harry Kane is England's golden boy – it's disgraceful he is the butt of FA and PFA jokes
- JASON BURTCHIEF FOOTBALL CORRESPONDENT
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Harry Kane has been ribbed in all quarters for claiming a goal against Stoke CREDIT: REUTERS
It has been a strange couple of weeks for Harry Kane. He has returned early from a bad ankle injury, has been lampooned for claiming a goal against Stoke City, has been mocked by the Football Association’s Twitter account and was even the butt of a joke by Ben Purkiss, the chairman of the Professional Footballers’ Association, in front of his peers at their awards evening on Sunday.
Kane could be forgiven, along with the rest of us, for having to Google exactly who Purkiss is after he “quipped”: “Harry Kane is so prolific that he is able to score without touching the ball.” A search will have shown the 34-year-old is a journeyman defender whose career started at Sheffield United but slid down from there. He is currently at League Two Swindon Town.
Nothing wrong with that, although quite why, as chairman of the PFA, the players’ union which is there to support its members, he felt it necessary to take the mickey out of Kane is another matter.
But that is the “bantz”, as the football world cringingly says, and Kane will obviously have been the recipient of far more vicious ribbing, not least in the Spurs dressing room since he appealed against the Premier League’s decision to award his side’s second goal against Stoke to Christian Eriksen. But at least that stays within the four walls. It is not an attempt to ridicule him in public by the FA or his own union. What is the point, Kane might wonder?
He was adamant he had touched Eriksen’s free-kick and the goal was eventually awarded to him as he attempts to chase down Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah to become the Premier League’s leading goalscorer for a third successive season. Such is Kane’s driven nature that it did not occur to him his behaviour would cause a fuss. He is fuelled by scoring goals, by winning and by making himself the best he can possibly be. Spend any time in his company and it is quickly apparent that whenever his career ends, no one will accuse him of not trying to wring out every last ounce of his talent: whether that is employing a personal chef, taking advice on sleep patterns, examining sports such as American football, for which he has a passion, or working with a sprint coach to try to make himself quicker.
Kane claimed the goal at Stoke because he is extremely driven to win accolades - at a personal and team levelCREDIT: PA
Kane is aware of the statistics, the comparisons, the career landmarks and that, alone, makes him a rarity among British footballers. He is unabashed in his desire to be the best and wants to be bracketed in the elite. It is part of his competitive instinct and there are not enough like him.
Kane wants to win personal, as well as team, honours. One dream is to win the Ballon d’Or; to be voted the world’s best player. And why not? If he does so then whoever he plays for – club and country – will have profited. Salah won the PFA Player of the Year award on Sunday and deservedly so. An Englishman has not won it since Wayne Rooney in 2009-10 and Kane is his country’s best hope of eventually ending that run.
Those close to Kane say he is unmoved by the recent ridicule although that does not quite tally with Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino claiming the 24-year-old had been “hurt” by the mockery after claiming his goal. For Kane it was a black-and-white issue. He is adamant the ball came off him and, therefore, it is his goal.
For the FA to then attempt to cash in on that theme was crass, stupid and immature. A tweet went out after Saturday’s FA Cup semi-final defeat by Manchester United, a game in which Kane was superbly shackled by United’s defence and struggled. The message was “What’s in your pocket, Chris?” with a video of defender Chris Smalling saying: “Harry Kane.”
Kane was ineffective up against Chris Smalling on SaturdayCREDIT: GETTY IMAGES
It was retweeted more than 20,000 times, provoking a huge response, much of it yet more ridicule aimed at Kane, before it was taken down. On the scale of gaffes by the FA – and that is quite an extensive scale – it is hardly huge, but what does it say about the organisation that it is so desperate to curry favour or be part of the zeitgeist that whoever was managing its social media account that day thought it would be funny to ridicule the man expected to captain England at the World Cup in a few weeks?
Unsurprisingly, the FA has written to Spurs and United who were not impressed by the tweet either, to apologise, which is fair enough, but what an idiotic, avoidable episode it is. I wonder what the reaction would have been in Portugal had the Portuguese Football Federation done that to Cristiano Ronaldo? Kane would be perfectly within his rights to question the FA’s motives and, maybe, tell it where to go the next time it asks him to promote a commercial venture for England.
There is no way the Portuguese FA would have responded in a similar way had Ronaldo done what Kane has CREDIT:REUTERS
Kane has been the golden boy of English football. He has not courted controversy, there is no juicy backstory. In fact, this is the first piece of negativity around him and it all stemmed from the heinous crime of him claiming a goal. Nothing more. It has, therefore, fuelled social media, which can be such a cesspit, with its memes and gifs which have gone way beyond attempts at humour, which is what the FA tried. It has been almost gleeful.
But why?
It now seems to be open season on Kane and however thick a skin he has, however impervious he is to criticism, and no one ultimately is, it does not help. Ask Gareth Southgate. England will go to the World Cup with it having been accepted that the biggest barrier to success at major tournaments is the mental pressure the players feel, how they freeze on the big stage. And here is the FA and the PFA messing with England’s biggest hope of actually not being humiliated for once by also taking the mickey out of him. Maybe I am being too po-faced. But that is not funny.
Whats the FA tweet got to do with me saying Kane was crap against City on TFC
I assumed your comment of "people turning" on Kane was in response to the backlash from media and opposing fans, not from our own fans regarding his current from...to which I agree with you, he's been very average since returning from injury.
No I draw a pretty big distinction between slating his performances on a Spurs forum, and Liverpool players, media, and the FA publicly humiliating him for weeks on end.
Harry Kane is England's golden boy – it's disgraceful he is the butt of FA and PFA jokes
Harry Kane is England's golden boy – it's disgraceful he is the butt of FA and PFA jokes
23 APRIL 2018 • 2:36PM
- JASON BURTCHIEF FOOTBALL CORRESPONDENT
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Harry Kane has been ribbed in all quarters for claiming a goal against Stoke CREDIT: REUTERS
It has been a strange couple of weeks for Harry Kane. He has returned early from a bad ankle injury, has been lampooned for claiming a goal against Stoke City, has been mocked by the Football Association’s Twitter account and was even the butt of a joke by Ben Purkiss, the chairman of the Professional Footballers’ Association, in front of his peers at their awards evening on Sunday.
Kane could be forgiven, along with the rest of us, for having to Google exactly who Purkiss is after he “quipped”: “Harry Kane is so prolific that he is able to score without touching the ball.” A search will have shown the 34-year-old is a journeyman defender whose career started at Sheffield United but slid down from there. He is currently at League Two Swindon Town.
Nothing wrong with that, although quite why, as chairman of the PFA, the players’ union which is there to support its members, he felt it necessary to take the mickey out of Kane is another matter.
But that is the “bantz”, as the football world cringingly says, and Kane will obviously have been the recipient of far more vicious ribbing, not least in the Spurs dressing room since he appealed against the Premier League’s decision to award his side’s second goal against Stoke to Christian Eriksen. But at least that stays within the four walls. It is not an attempt to ridicule him in public by the FA or his own union. What is the point, Kane might wonder?
He was adamant he had touched Eriksen’s free-kick and the goal was eventually awarded to him as he attempts to chase down Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah to become the Premier League’s leading goalscorer for a third successive season. Such is Kane’s driven nature that it did not occur to him his behaviour would cause a fuss. He is fuelled by scoring goals, by winning and by making himself the best he can possibly be. Spend any time in his company and it is quickly apparent that whenever his career ends, no one will accuse him of not trying to wring out every last ounce of his talent: whether that is employing a personal chef, taking advice on sleep patterns, examining sports such as American football, for which he has a passion, or working with a sprint coach to try to make himself quicker.
Kane claimed the goal at Stoke because he is extremely driven to win accolades - at a personal and team levelCREDIT: PA
Kane is aware of the statistics, the comparisons, the career landmarks and that, alone, makes him a rarity among British footballers. He is unabashed in his desire to be the best and wants to be bracketed in the elite. It is part of his competitive instinct and there are not enough like him.
Kane wants to win personal, as well as team, honours. One dream is to win the Ballon d’Or; to be voted the world’s best player. And why not? If he does so then whoever he plays for – club and country – will have profited. Salah won the PFA Player of the Year award on Sunday and deservedly so. An Englishman has not won it since Wayne Rooney in 2009-10 and Kane is his country’s best hope of eventually ending that run.
Those close to Kane say he is unmoved by the recent ridicule although that does not quite tally with Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino claiming the 24-year-old had been “hurt” by the mockery after claiming his goal. For Kane it was a black-and-white issue. He is adamant the ball came off him and, therefore, it is his goal.
For the FA to then attempt to cash in on that theme was crass, stupid and immature. A tweet went out after Saturday’s FA Cup semi-final defeat by Manchester United, a game in which Kane was superbly shackled by United’s defence and struggled. The message was “What’s in your pocket, Chris?” with a video of defender Chris Smalling saying: “Harry Kane.”
Kane was ineffective up against Chris Smalling on SaturdayCREDIT: GETTY IMAGES
It was retweeted more than 20,000 times, provoking a huge response, much of it yet more ridicule aimed at Kane, before it was taken down. On the scale of gaffes by the FA – and that is quite an extensive scale – it is hardly huge, but what does it say about the organisation that it is so desperate to curry favour or be part of the zeitgeist that whoever was managing its social media account that day thought it would be funny to ridicule the man expected to captain England at the World Cup in a few weeks?
Unsurprisingly, the FA has written to Spurs and United who were not impressed by the tweet either, to apologise, which is fair enough, but what an idiotic, avoidable episode it is. I wonder what the reaction would have been in Portugal had the Portuguese Football Federation done that to Cristiano Ronaldo? Kane would be perfectly within his rights to question the FA’s motives and, maybe, tell it where to go the next time it asks him to promote a commercial venture for England.
There is no way the Portuguese FA would have responded in a similar way had Ronaldo done what Kane has CREDIT:REUTERS
Kane has been the golden boy of English football. He has not courted controversy, there is no juicy backstory. In fact, this is the first piece of negativity around him and it all stemmed from the heinous crime of him claiming a goal. Nothing more. It has, therefore, fuelled social media, which can be such a cesspit, with its memes and gifs which have gone way beyond attempts at humour, which is what the FA tried. It has been almost gleeful.
But why?
It now seems to be open season on Kane and however thick a skin he has, however impervious he is to criticism, and no one ultimately is, it does not help. Ask Gareth Southgate. England will go to the World Cup with it having been accepted that the biggest barrier to success at major tournaments is the mental pressure the players feel, how they freeze on the big stage. And here is the FA and the PFA messing with England’s biggest hope of actually not being humiliated for once by also taking the mickey out of him. Maybe I am being too po-faced. But that is not funny.
Finally someone in the media addressing the real issues. Kane's only guilt is claiming a goal which he scored. You can't stop fans from bantering and no one would want to. But clubs should not be doing it, there is supposed to be a level of professionalism. A basic, low level. But it's absent. And colleagues (by which I mean other professional footballers) who come up against Kane should not be taking the piss in public either. tweeting digs etc. Where the fuck is the basic respect that he is due from his colleagues on a professional level? This is the top scorer in the league the last two seasons, England's captain, and a decent guy, no matter what your club affiliation is.
I think this is part of why Kane has been poor the last couple of games. I expect him to be poor for the rest of the season now and no doubt at the world cup too. Then he'll get scapegoated for it in the media. He will put it behind him though, in the end, and when he does I hope he pays back everyone who's slatted him over this. He can bide his time and get his own back months or years down the line when the opportunity presents itself.
Kane says he is fit, but I wouldn't trust him to not try to score goals for us if he thought he could.
His turning and acceleration look very poor to me lately though; I am convinced he is not fully fit.
This is where a trusted mentor like Poch should be able to convince Harry that he's better resting and recovering fitness for a few games so that he can be 100% in two weeks rather than playing 50% for four weeks.
The FA thing is just disgusting though, and the opposition fans heaping on ridicule are just classless (as usual).
England certainly don't deserve to succeed in the world cup based on that alone, unfortunately.
Harry's got such a clean set of heels people are desperate to have something to knock him with.
Can't wait until we can shut these motherfuckers up with a major title or cup win.
His turning and acceleration look very poor to me lately though; I am convinced he is not fully fit.
This is where a trusted mentor like Poch should be able to convince Harry that he's better resting and recovering fitness for a few games so that he can be 100% in two weeks rather than playing 50% for four weeks.
The FA thing is just disgusting though, and the opposition fans heaping on ridicule are just classless (as usual).
England certainly don't deserve to succeed in the world cup based on that alone, unfortunately.
Harry's got such a clean set of heels people are desperate to have something to knock him with.
Can't wait until we can shut these motherfuckers up with a major title or cup win.
BOTH clubs you say... both clubs?
Well that's jolly nice of them to feel the need to apologise to Man Utd for ripping the piss out of Tottenham's player...
What, were they worried Chris Smalling might sue them for defermation of character in making him look like a smug Cunt? Awww... shame!
It's a bit like Gloucestershire Police apologising to the Wests as WELL as their victims.. y'know, just in case THEY were offended or affected by the media coverage about their heinous crimes....
OK... so maybe multiple murders in a house of horrors doesn't QUITE compare to the FA joyously ripping the piss out of one of THEIR OWN PLAYERS having an off day...
But in FOOTBALL terms, it's pretty bad.
THEN again... I dunno how prolific Fred West was in front of goal, with only the 'keeper to beat!