Harry Kane is 32 years old, married to his childhood sweetheart, has four children, runs his own mental health foundation, and donates regularly to armed forces and mental health charities. He doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, and has spent his entire career in the spotlight without a single scandal attached to his name.
On the pitch, the numbers are extraordinary. His country's all-time top scorer. His boyhood club's all-time top scorer. Six Golden Boots, four in the Premier League, one at a World Cup. Figures that the vast majority of strikers will never get close to.
And yet he remains one of the most written-off and underappreciated players of his generation. A man who has devoted everything to club and country, never once put a foot wrong off the pitch, and embodies every quality you could want from a professional footballer.
If you're looking for a role model, it doesn't get much cleaner than this. The fact it even needs pointing out says everything.
🚨🚨💣🗣️ | Jose Mourinho on Real Players and Madrid Losing to Bayern Munich:
🎙️ “I will tell you something because I was there, I lived it from the inside at Real Madrid. People speak about talent, about big names, about world-class players… but for me, this is not the problem.
The problem is ego.
When a player signs for Real Madrid, many of them arrive already thinking they are the best, that they are above everything. They don’t come to be part of a team, they come to be the star. And when you have too many players thinking like this, you don’t have a team anymore, you have a collection of individuals.
Football is not about this. Football is about balance, about sacrifice, about players doing the work nobody wants to do. Defending together, suffering together, fighting for every ball. Tonight, I did not see that. I saw quality, yes, but I did not see a team.
You see Jude Bellingham telling Vinícius Júnior to shut up. For me, I am not surprised. That is exactly the ego I am talking about. These things, they destroy the balance, they break the unity, they create confusion on the pitch. Tell me, how do you win from there? Teammate fighting teammate in a game like this?
And then you look at Bayern Munich. They are not stupid. They are organised, they are compact, they understand their roles. No ego, just team. And most importantly, they have the mentality that the game is finished only when the referee says it is finished. They keep going, they keep fighting, until the last second.
This is why they win.
You can win matches with talent, of course. Even with ego, sometimes you win. But to win the biggest competitions, consistently, you need something else. You need humility, discipline, and a real team spirit.
At Real Madrid, the quality is always there. But if you don’t control the ego, if you don’t create balance, then you will always have this problem.
For me, tonight was very simple. Bayern were a team.
Real Madrid… they were not.”
Holy Sh*t: Stephen A Smith goes OFF on the Hall of Fame voters for not selecting Robert Kraft.
"Based on the trend, they're going to do it to Tom Brady too. It makes no sense whatsoever, and as far as I'm concerned, it's the Hall of Shame."
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🚨🚨THIS IS WILD🚨🚨
A #BRONCOS FAN WAS TRASH-TALKING #PATRIOTS FANS AND THE PATS FAN KNOCKED HIM OUT COLD.
ONE OF THE NASTIEST PUNCH SHOTS YOU WILL SEE.
Denver lost on and off the field in the AFC championship game yesterday.
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@HansPet47328623@iMiaSanMia Nur das Uli dafür selber verantwortlich ist weil er und der Aufsichtsrat alles abgeblockt hat und den Sparmodus ausgerufen haben. Die alten Herren haben sich viel zu sehr auf Wirtz eingeschossen statt die Kohle für die anderen Transfers freizugeben
🚨🔴 Thomas Müller heads to the ‚Südkurve‘ …
'Thank you very much for your support“, @esmuellert_ says.
And added: „You'll need to take a lot of vacation days because we're going all out.“
The team also celebrates him.
Legend of the club. More than 640 scorer in his career yet (goals and assists). 🇩🇪🐐
@PolizeiHamburg Das Statement ist doch ein Scherz oder 🤣 anstatt eure unfähigen Kollegen mal zu verurteilen wird dir schuld wieder nur auf die Fans geschoben 🤦♂️ bleiben einfach Idioten in Uniform