KANE COMES TO THE RESCUE

Captain saves the day in frustrating final qualifier

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THANK heavens for Harry Kane.

If you want to be the best, you have got to play the best sorry, Ollie Watkins, or any of the other pretenders. That means the England captain.

It took just 40 seconds for his presence to save Gareth Southgate's side from an embarrassing defeat in their final Euro 2024 qualifier after coming on as a substitute.

TV replays suggested he may not have been the one to get a touch to Phil Foden's corner Jani Atanasov suffered that indignity - but it was the Bayern Munich striker's pressure that ultimately forced the error.

Certainly, if Southgate, right, has pretensions of England topping the world rankings sometime soon, the message did not seem to get through to some of the rest of his players.