Harry Kane has won the Premier League’s Golden Boot award for two seasons running now and is gunning to make it a hat-trick with six matches of the 2017-18 season remaining.

The 24-year-old, however, has some ground to make up on Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah in order to retain the coveted individual accolade.

Salah has scored 29 league goals this term but missed the Merseyside derby on Saturday afternoon through injury. This meant Kane had the opportunity to close the gap on the Egyptian winger when Spurs went head-to-head with Stoke City later in the day.

Tottenham won the match 2-1 and have now almost certainly sealed a top-four finish after Chelsea were held to a 1-1 draw by West Ham on Sunday.

Both of Spurs’ goals, however, were scored by Christian Eriksen.

Tottenham’s second goal was awarded to Eriksen but Kane celebrated as if he’s had the final touch. The England international pumped his fist in front of the away supporters inside the Bet365 Stadium and then hugged Son Heung-min.

It was only after the match Kane discovered that the Premier League had given the goal to his Danish teammate, unable to tell for sure whether the prolific striker touched the ball before it hit the back of the net.

Kane criticised for his reaction

This has perturbed Kane, whose reaction to finding out that Eriksen was awarded the goal has been criticised by football fans.

"I swear on my daughter's life that I touched the ball, but there's nothing I can do," Kane said, per BBC Sport. "If they turn it around, they turn it around. If they take my word, they take my word.

"It is what it is - the most important thing is that we won the game."

Needless to say, Kane telling reporters that he swears on his daughter’s life has not gone down well with people.

Has Kane gone too far?

While it proves that Kane is convinced that he *did* get the final touch, it’s still an unusual thing to say.

A lot of football fans feel that Kane has gone too far and shouldn’t have said what he said.

Asked if he feels if he can still win the Golden Boot this season, Kane added: "I still believe I can. There are still games to go.

"I've got to focus on my game. I can't control what he does.

"Obviously as a striker, it would be great to win the golden boot again and I will keep working hard from now until the end of the season."

Kane scored seven goals in the final two league matches of last season, so don’t rule him out just yet.

Spurs finish the campaign with matches against Manchester City, Brighton, Watford, West Brom, Newcastle and Leicester.

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