Quite. Look no further than Lukaku at Belgium for how shit footie journo even-handedness is - Kane beat him to the golden boot despite having almost no service but we sit here with him getting pelters whereas Lukaku was (rightly) praised for his excellent hold-up play against Brazil. Kane was also praised for a similar performance against Sweden until the narrative shifted and became 'well, he didn't score in his last three matches'.The stick Kane gets is an absolute joke. I haven't heard a bad thing about Giroud, Lewandowski, Muller or even Walker for choosing to diving head the ball when he should have stayed big and not let Perisic get his foot higher than his nut was when stooping unnecessarily. Haven't a thing about how our vice captain Henderson kept giving the ball back to Croatia with a lump away every chance possible or any criticsm aimed towards the tactics used against both Colombia and Croatia defending a 1-0 lead with half hour to get by just so we can scrape our way through. All I've heard is was Kane fit and could he have done more even when he was largely played out of position, tracking back to do the things the others didn't have the skill set to carry out. The guys equalled Pele's best ever return from a World Cup and people stilll try and find a way to aim digs. One of the reasons we never do well is because we shower with praise one second and ridicule that same person or group of people the next. Fucking imbeciles the lot of them, they never learn.
It goes from patriotism to club loyalties in an instant with fans and well the media, they just stir anything possible to fill airtime or get debates going regardless of the knock on effects.
Big season required from Harry, go beat Clive Allens record my son!
However, Lukaku had chances put on a fucking plate for him by De Bruyne and Hazard and yet couldn't capitalise outside of the group stages. Anyone who doesn't think he gets an easier ride for being a Manchester United player is painfully naive. Kane would have broken records with the same midfield service, of that I have no doubt.
When you boil it down to the purest romanticism though, I think about what an 8 year old kid would think about all of it. Unless I'm mistaken, our Harry is very popular with them and I do think we'll be seeing a few more Spurs fans in the next few years than we would otherwise.
Would today's Harry Kane be the hero of an 8 year old Harry Kane? Absolutely. And that's all that should matter to him.