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‘Is he a nice guy? No. He’s a good guy’: how Harry Kane became an England great

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Figures who worked with striker in his formative years recall a self-belief – even when his talent did not stand outThere is another version of reality in which Harry Kane is not England’s greatest goalscorer but a goalkeeper. On his first day at Ridgeway Rovers, his first club, the coach Dave Bricknell asked whether anyone fancied going in goal. A six-year-old Kane threw up his hand – and he was pretty good.“I thought I’d found a goalkeeper,” Bricknell says. “At that age, you don’t get many kids that don’t mind…

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