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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Barry Glendenning

Bayern, Big Cup and blowing it: you can take Harry Kane out of Spurs …

We’ve watched this movie before.
We’ve watched this movie before. Photograph: Alberto Lingria/Reuters

BIG WHOOP

In idle moments Football Daily occasionally wonders if in idle moments Harry Kane occasionally wonders what might have been if he hadn’t played that Big Cup final on one leg. Does he ponder an alternate universe where he’d selflessly elected to settle for a cameo from the bench, so a fully fit, firing and bang in-form Lucas Moura could take his place against a conspicuously sub-par Liverpool? While he might not feel he’d earned it, he could conceivably have a winner’s medal to his name and his current predicament might not look so frustrating. A predicament that could see him end the season sweeping all before him in the European Golden Boot as part of an all-conquering Bayern Munich team that for the first time in 12 years somehow contrives through the shortcomings of others to conquer nothing.

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