“I still remember it like it was yesterday,” Harry Kane says, and he is straight into the story, the one about his England debut, and what a story it is. March 2015, Lithuania at Wembley, on as a 71st-minute substitute for Wayne Rooney, a goalscorer 79 seconds later. “I don’t think I could have dreamed it any better,” Kane says. “It sure goes quick.”
The way Kane works, it is always on to the next thing. Train, play, score, repeat. And the next thing is a landmark which he could not have conceived of back then but one that, like so many of those linked to him, has come into view inexorably, inevitably.
