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Nick Purewal

World Cup break cannot come quick enough for Tottenham as Harry Kane and co fail to find the fight

Harry Kane made a surprise start at the City Ground

(Picture: Getty Images)

Harry Kane might just be English football’s most diligent current servant. But even the England captain and Tottenham poster boy could not find the fight for Spurs’ Carabao Cup assignment at Nottingham Forest.

Of course he couldn’t. Spurs’ talisman goal machine should never have been on the field at the City Ground in truth.

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