The England manager was in the stands to see Spurs’ own Roy (of the Rovers, that is) add two more goals to a tally that now stands at 26 in all competitions, including the 17 that make him the Premier League’s joint top scorer with Sergio Aguero and Diego Costa.
The big difference between him and them is that Manchester City and Chelsea forked out more than £30million each for the pair, while Kane cost Spurs nothing.
That’s why coach Mauricio Pochettino is fully expecting to get a call from the England manager next week, when Hodgson names his squad for the upcoming games against Lithuania and Italy.
“Harry is young and can still improve. Now it is up to Roy to decide,” said the Argentinian, who also paraded at least one more glittering English prospect in Ryan Mason.
He added: “Roy hasn’t spoken to me yet about Harry. But there were other English players who were excellent for me out there today as well.”
QPR will point to two penalties they might have had on another day and the Charlie Austin piledriver that clattered back off the bar when the game was goalless. But overall they couldn’t really complain about the result.
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Harry Kane ensured Roy Hodgson was paying attention by bagging a double to down QPR
And even their disappointed caretaker boss, Chris Ramsey, had to admit: “If I was picking the England team I would pick Kane – but I have more important things to worry about right now.
“I am just very disappointed we didn’t get at least one of two penalty decisions at a time when we are fighting for every point.”
Fair enough. But, let’s face it, after that Austin chance was lost the writing was always on the wall for Rangers once Kane did what he’s been doing all season – scoring a cracking goal that reflected Spurs’territorial supremacy.
There will be questions in the Loftus Road camp over how he was able to ‘lose’ Rio Ferdinand and get his head to an Andros Townsend free-kick. But it was no more than the visitors deserved.
And the lead would have been double that if Rob Green hadn’t gone full stretch to keep out a Kyle Walker effort that took a nasty deflection off the impressive Mason just before the break.
Spurs really should have been two up just after the restart as well. But this time it was the post that denied them what would have been a superb goal for Christian Eriksen.
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Frankly, they lived a lot more dangerously than they needed to before Kane calmed the nerves with his second of the day on 68 minutes.
But much of the credit has to go to his fellow academy boy, Mason, who sprung the QPR offside trap with a superb through-ball that Spurs’ homegrown hero calmly latched onto before rounding the stranded Green and plonking the ball into a gaping net.
Sandro set up a nervous final 15 minutes for his former team-mates with a sweetly struck consolation goal. But it would have been a travesty if QPR had pinched a point.
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