Mauricio Pochettino has conceded that Harry Kane has been hurt by the reaction to his determination to claim his team’s second goal in Saturday’s win over Stoke City which the club took to appeal with the Premier League in order for it to be awarded to their leading goalscorer.

The Tottenham Hotspur manager also laughed at a suggestion made by the golden boot winner of 30 years ago, John Aldridge, that the episode would give greater motivation to Mohammad Salah to outscore Kane – who has finished top for the previous two seasons.

The Spurs manager said that he had not known that his club were appealing to have the goal credited to Kane but that there was no tension between the Englishman and Christian Eriksen, who was originally given it.

On Kane, Pochettino said: “Of course he never thought that this situation was going to go on to such big things when he was so, so, so, so certain that he touched the ball. It’s normal that he was a little bit disappointed [with the reaction] because of course Harry Kane and all of our players have Twitter, Instagram. Tottenham fans will back Harry Kane but other fans will kill him. People have opinions but that is normal.