KANE: I’LL FILL MY BOOTS AGAIN

Spurs’ golden boy is relishing battle with rivals for goal awards

HARRY KANE enjoys a good Golden Boot tear-up.

Two seasons ago he saw off Sergio Aguero and Jamie Vardy to win the award for the Premier League’s top scorer.

A year later Kane beat Romelu Lukaku, Alexis Sanchez and Diego Costa to retain the coveted trophy.

It took the genius of Mo Salah to deny him last season.

Even then, Kane made up for it by beating Kylian Mbappe, Cristiano Ronaldo and Antoine Griezmann to win the World Cup Golden Boot.

So Tottenham’s England captain is relishing yet another Premier League shootout with his latest opponent, Arsenal’s Pierreemerick Aubameyang.

The Gabon hitman tops the scoring charts with 10 goals, one ahead of Kane, heading into the busy festive period.

Aubameyang (below) struck twice last Sunday as the Gunners came out on top in the north London derby.

But Kane, who netted against Southampton on Wednesday, is ready to show his class again with the going about to get tough.

“When you’ve done it on the biggest stage of them all, the World Cup, you can look back and gain confidence from that,” he said.

“Since I’ve been in the Premier League it has had some of the best strikers in the world.

“Aubameyang is at the top end at the moment. There’s quite a few on eight or nine goals so it’s important for me to carry on doing what I’m doing. There’s still a lot of the season to go, but I’m happy with where I am.”

Despite being in Aubameyang’s slipstream, there is more fanfare around the Arsenal man. Kane (below) does not have a problem with that.

“When you set a standard year after year then maybe people aren’t so surprised when you score goals,” he said.

“If you score one goal then maybe people are expecting you to score two or three.

“I’m happy with where I’m at, I’ve been on good form.

“This is the sort of period I like where you get into a rhythm, get into a routine, so that helps.” On December 19 Kane has the chance to avenge Sunday’s crushing 4-2 defeat in the Carabao Cup quarterfinal. He added: “Revenge is a strong word, but we’ll be motivated.

“It was a heated derby, it’s what you want a derby to be like, you just don’t want to be on the losing end of it.

“It’s an opportunity to get one back if we can.

That’s still a couple of weeks away, but I’m sure the fans will be looking forward to it and we will be as well.” Tottenham go to Leicester in the Premier League tomorkane row night. is delighted that despite being humbled by Arsenal, his club have ended a c r u - cial week still in the Champions League, still in the top four and still above the Gunners.

“It was a tough week – Chelsea, Inter Milan, and Arsenal. And there’s another tough one on Saturday,” he said.