Best Kane stat of them all?
The best stat of all those posted this weekend about Harry Kane was surely the one in which the legendary Dixie Dean was mentioned in the same sentence as "Our Harry". That was the one which said that Harry was the first Englishman to score 50 or more goals in one calendar year for club and country since Dixie Dean did it for Everton and England in 1927. That's simply an incredible mention spread over 90 years of football history. Dixie Dean is particularly famous, of course, for scoring 60 league goals for Everton in the 1927-28 season - a feat surely never to be equalled or beaten. Mind you, Harry is still only 24!
Thanks to John Saunders on the Spurs Odyssey message board, who points out that the one and only Jimmy Greaves also scored in excess of 50 goals for club and country in 1962. I make it 58 that Jimmy scored, 52 of which were for Tottenham. So Harry gets a mention beside two true footballing legends! The original Dixie Dean stat is not a fact, and I am proud that my all-time hero is the previous Englishman to hit that 50 goal landmark.
Other impressive stats were mentioned in the Stoke match report, such as the fact only Alan Shearer has scored his first 90 Premier league goals faster than Kane, who now has 117 Spurs senior goals to his name and moves to within 5 goals of the top ten all-time Spurs scorers. My match report referred to our four consecutive wins over Stoke by four or more consecutive goals, and I understand this is a first not just in the history of The Premier League, but in top flight football too! Yet another first for Tottenham Hotspur!
Harry wasn't the star of the show though, as Son Heung-min scored one, and gets two assists for his cross which led to the Shawcross own goal, and the run and pass which led to Eriksen's goal. This was Son's second consecutive man of the match win, and his third in our last five games. Long may his form continue!
Apart from the fact that Man City won at Old Trafford and are now streets ahead of just about everybody who fancied a tilt at the title this season (18 points ahead of us already), and the fact that West Ham did win, it has been a good weekend for us, with all four teams directly above us losing points. We are just two points behind the top four, so all is to play for in the quest for Champions League football again next season. Weather permitting (we are in the midst of a big freeze here in England at present, but milder conditions are expected on Wednesday) whilst we play Brighton on Wednesday the gooners have to take on West Ham, who seem to have developed a new resilience in their last two games.
Mind you, a trip to Manchester City on Saturday looms for us too, but we fear nobody right?
Today's Champions League Round of 16 draw pairs us with Juventus on February 13 (A) and March 7 (H) next year. Having beaten the reigning European Champions, we fear nobody, do we?
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Results 09-10.11.17
West Ham 1-0 Chelsea
Burnley 1-0 Watford
C. Palace 2-2 B'mouth
Hds'field 2-0 Brighton
Swansea 1-0 West Brom
Spurs 5-1 Stoke
Newcastle 2-3 Leicester
S'hampton 1-1 Arsenal
Liverpool 1-1 Everton
Man Utd 1-2 Man City
Premier League Table - 2017-18
P W D L F-A GD Pts
1. Man City 16 15 1 0 48-11 37 46
2. Man Utd 16 11 2 3 36-11 25 35
3. Chelsea 16 10 2 4 28-13 15 32
4. Liverpool 16 8 6 2 34-20 14 30
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5. Arsenal 16 9 2 5 30-20 10 29
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6. Spurs 16 8 4 4 28-14 14 28
7. Burnley 16 8 4 4 15-12 3 28
8. Leicester 16 6 5 5 23-22 1 23
9. Watford 16 6 4 6 25-27 -2 22
10. Everton 16 5 4 7 20-29 -9 19
11. S'hampton 16 4 6 6 16-19 -3 18
12. H'dsfield 16 5 3 8 11-26 -15 18
13. Brighton 16 4 5 7 14-21 -7 17
14. B'mouth 16 4 4 8 15-19 -4 16
15. Stoke 16 4 4 8 19-35 -16 16
16. Newcastle 16 4 3 9 16-25 -9 15
17. West Brom 16 2 7 7 12-22 -10 13
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18. West Ham 16 3 4 9 14-32 -18 13
19. Swansea 16 3 3 10 9-18 -9 12
20. C. Palace 16 2 5 9 10-27 -17 11
