Harry Kane was once so desperate to play for Arsenal that he offered to go in goal for the Gunners.
Kane, the Tottenham and England captain who has this season become the record goalscorer for both club and country, was a fanatical Arsenal supporter as a kid and spent four years with the club’s youth set-up.
He was 12 years old when assistant academy manager Roy Massey told the budding striker that he wasn’t good enough to make the grade as a No 9. But Massey was so impressed when Kane’s dad, Pat, informed him that his son felt he might have a future saving goals rather than scoring them, that he gave the determined youngster a chance to impress between the sticks.
