Steve Bruce must have felt a familiar shudder of apprehension as Harry Kane walked past him in the tunnel before kick-off. Newcastle’s manager has long subscribed to the theory that “team’s are only as good as their strikers” and, in Kane,
Tottenham possess a world-class centre-forward.
Not for the first time, the
England forward delighted in demonstrating precisely why he is so widely coveted with a consummate all-round performance capped by two goals scored in the space of four first-half minutes.