Is Harry Kane Cursed? An In-Depth Investigation
When I started this piece, I figured all the threads would lead back to a specific moment in April 2018: when Harry Kane claimed a somewhat dubious-looking goal by saying, “I sweat on my daughter’s life that I touched that ball”. He was given the goal — but at what cost? This, to me, seemed to be the moment that Kane doomed himself to a trophy-less life. But as I dug into the mystery for my column today, I realized it goes back way further than that:
Is Harry Kane cursed? We can’t rule it out.
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