Everyone who encountered Harry Kane on the way up tells a version of the story. None of the managers or coaches who played a role in the Tottenham Hotspur striker’s inexorable rise has a bad word to say about him; they invariably recall the tale with a reflexive fondness. It is likely, though, that they were just a touch more exasperated at the time than they now care to admit.

This is how Chris Hughton tells it, casting his mind back to the injury-curtailed season that the 21-year-old spent under his tutelage at Norwich City, two years past. “He was not a difficult boy to manage at all,” he says, affectionately. “But there came a point where you would have to pull him off the