Harry Kane remembers the day he won the World Cup Golden Boot with mixed emotions. It will forever be one of his proudest possessions, but there’s a tinge of regret in where he was when he won it.
That day, Kane had dreamed of being inside Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium, playing in the World Cup final. Instead, he was nearly 2,000 miles further west. “Winning the Golden Boot was incredible but it was a strange feeling, because we’d gone out of the tournament and were so disappointed about that,” he explains to FourFourTwo.
“We had just landed back in England when the World Cup final was on. I wasn’t watching it – I was driving back to London from Birmingham. I started getting texts through that said, ‘Congratulations, you’ve won the Golden Boot’.”
Kane’s six goals in six games had put him well clear at the top of the 2018 World Cup’s scoring charts. Either Antoine Griezmann or Kylian Mbappe needed a hat-trick in the
