Kane double strike sinks Tunisia

A STOPPAGE-TIME header from two-goal hero Harry Kane gave England a 2-1 win over Tunisia in their opening World Cup Group G match yesterday.

A 35th minute Ferjani Sassi penalty had cancelled out Kane’s 11th minute opener.

After the break England, who had wasted several good chances in the first half, struggled to break down the deep defending African side.

But from a Kieran Trippier corner, a glancing header from Harry Maguire found Kane at the back post and he nodded home to give England a winning start.

● Russia yesterday charged two drunk England fans with minor offences over their unruly behaviour on a train to the city of Volgograd where their national team were to play Tunisia.

One fan was taken to hospital after cutting himself on a carriage door, while another who tried to leave the train was detained and charged with disobeying a policeman’s orders.

The incident comes as England is set to play its first World Cup match in Russia, after serious violence broke out between Russian and England fans in the French city of Marseille during the Euro 2016 championship.

Regional transport police said in a statement that one of the fans “in a state of inebriation, broke the glass on the entrance door to a carriage and cut open his right hand”.

He was taken to a hospital in the town of Yelets – almost 700km from the venue in Volgograd – but did not require inpatient treatment.

The other fan “in a state of inebriation, learning his acquaintance had been hospitalised, decided to leave the train” at the same station, transport police said.

Other England fans tried to stop him, resulting in a “conflict”, and the fan “did not obey (a policeman’s) lawful demands to cease acts of hooliganism”, police said.

The unruly fan was taken to a police station in Yelets and charged with petty hooliganism and disobeying the orders of a member of law enforcement.

Both men were also charged with drunkenness.