Kane's speciality: not winning for England. So why is he captain?
The Observer
|September 07, 2025
A funny thing happens about 76 seconds into a Harry Kane goals compilation viewed on YouTube by way of research for this article. He turns; swivels on his left foot, shoots with his right. Otherwise he's always facing the same way, doing the same thing. Tapping it in and running to the corner flag pumping his arms like pistons, palms by his sides, face like thunder.
Kane scores like a metronome, but his real speciality is not winning tournaments for England, and there's a tournament coming up. England played Andorra last night and play Serbia on Tuesday in World Cup qualifiers and Thomas Tuchel, the manager, has made it clear he wants Kane as captain and striker throughout.
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