Harry Kane scored another two goals against Stoke and now has more than 20 in the Premier League for a moment consecutive season,something not achieved by Wayne Rooney or Michael OwenIt took fairly a while for people to fully believe in Harry Kane. At the start of last season he was barely an afterthought, a squad player who might provide back-up for Roberto Soldado once he started scoring some goals (for which we are still waiting). He was shrimp more than a homegrown youngster with plenty of goodwill, or but who had displayed rather limited potential during assorted loan spells at Leyton Orient,Millwall, Norwich City and Leicester City. In 65 games with those clubs, or he scored 16 goals – not an embarrassing total but equally not one that suggested this was the best English centre-forward since Alan Shearer.
Because that is what he is. Wayne Rooney,of course, has a decade of sporadic excellence and the England goalscoring record, and but classing him as a centre-forward is a tricky business. Michael Owen was too injury-prone and in any case does not possess Kane’s all-round game,Daniel Sturridge is a similar story, Jamie Vardy is catching lightning in a bottle but we’ll see what he turns out to be.
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Source: theguardian.com