For around a decade, Spurs have been in denial.
“His one of our own, his one of our owwwwwwn, Harry Kane, his one of our own”.
They tried to paint Harry Kane as a boyhood Spurs fan. A lad from Walthamstow, who grew up just the other side of the reservoirs. Could almost see the ground from his house.
Even when pictures came out of him as a 10-year-old, wearing an Arsenal shirt, hair died red for Freddie Ljungberg and at Arsenal’s invincible parade, Spurs would still claim he was one of their own.
They dismissed the above picture as “just a child wearing a shirt” and “he might have been an Arsenal fan at 10”. And that might be true.
But what they are then saying is that at 10-years-old, he was an Arsenal fan. When he was a boy, he was an Arsenal fan. So he was a boyhood Arsenal fan, not a boyhood Spurs fan. Kane only actually became a Spurs “fan” in adulthood.
Even whilst in the Tottenham academy, he would still go to Arsenal games. Cheering the team he loved on from the North Bank and Clock End.
He often went with his brother who was home and away Arsenal for a bit during his younger days, and dad who was a regular in the Plimsoll before home games at Highbury.
No matter the evidence put in front of them, Spurs fans continued to claim him as one of their own. And Kane bought into it.
When he was breaking through at Tottenham, touch and go whether he would make it, he bought it into. He realised quickly that by becoming a fan favourite, a terrace hero, that he would be harder to sell.
His family also bought into it. All of a sudden they were portraying themselves as die hard Tottenham fans. Being carried in the air around pubs off the High Road. All a little bit embarrassing.
Kane probably never envisigned in 2014 that he would go on to score the goals he did over the next decade. No longer would he need the affinity to the fans to remain at the club. He was now a fixture in Spurs team due to his on pitch performances. But by then, the mud had stuck.
Spurs fans thought he was a boyhood fan and he continued to talk in interviews how he had always loved the club. It was just not true!
Now he has got his big move to Bayern Munich, it will be interesting to see what happens.
Will his old man and family continue going over Tottenham? Or will they quietly buy a box close to Thierry Henry’s and hope to sneak in and out without being noticed. His brother might need some plastic surgery to get away with that.
Good luck Harry on your new ventures. As a fellow Walthamstow born lad and Arsenal fan, I hope you smash it over there and win the trophies you deserve!
UTA
Keenos
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon 
Embarrassing article. Also it’s you need to review your spelling…
*their
Muppet.
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Oh well done, you spotted one spelling mistake in a blog. Bet your one of those weirdos that sit reading a book with a highlighter so that you can send a letter into the publisher after pointing out the mistakes
“Your mum” – youre a grown man and you use this as a username. good work…
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You’re **
Maybe writing isn’t for you 😆😆
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And you said spurs fans were in denial?!😂
Harry Kane and his family have always been massive spurs fans, regularly attending games in the younger years – the picture is from when Kane was in the arsenal academy- attending the parade as you would for the team you play for. Unfortunately, you let him go and luckily for him he no longer had to wear that shirt. Good luck wasting your time on whole blogs on Tottenham 😂 maybe you’re the secret spurs fan after all.
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And here is the denial! He had already left our academy by the time we went invincible! Any die hard Spurs fan would not let their kid go to an opponents winners parade and let them dye their hair read
Harry is a Gooner.
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Still a bad feeling you let him go when he was in your youth system and that was your star player at one time Liam Brady who released him. We know he was once an Arsenal supporter played for Spurs and became our record goalscorer. I sense big regrets on your behalf, and you are obviously still very bitter your loss our gain we have won not a trophy I admit but a great deal of money for a 30 year old that never cost us anything. Thanks, Arsenal.
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No issue. He was a big lad who did not stand out. Took him 2 years before another academy picked him up. He then struggled through the Spurs system but worked hard and made it. Fair play. Lots of kids in North London end up spending time at Arsenal, Tottenham and West Ham’s academies. Not unsual in these parts to play for many different clubs before you are 10 or 11.
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Here they come
Walking down the street
They get get the funniest looks from
Everyone they meet
Hey hey it’s the halfwits
Can’t wait to see how the Marsh Dwellers misspend the next instalment just like they did with the Monkey Boy money all those years ago. Let’s see how they manage to spend modern day equivalent of all that dough they spent on Lamela. 17 goals in 8 seasons.
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Ohh this has rattled a few along The Seven Sisters, hasn’t it! That most of the responses are coming from disgruntled Tottenham fans doesn’t do much to dissuade the reader that most of you, in addition to your brightest star for years, are first and foremost more concerned with Arsenal. I get it though, it must be cold in that shadow!
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