DEADLY HARRY GOING PLACES

Brilliant double from the Spurs hitman shows he needs to move on to bigger things

IF this was a contest that confirmed Harry Kane’s right to be regarded as a true great, then it also perhaps proved beyond doubt it is time to leave Spurs.

Only his sublime, instinctive quality in front of goal delivered a point against an Everton side who seemed stronger in all departments bar centre-forward.

But it was not enough for the visitors, whose chance of a top-four finish has now surely gone with these two dropped points...and maybe with it, the Tottenham tenure of their best striker in six decades.

Kane’s two brilliant goals took him beyond Robbie Fowler into seventh in the all-time Premier League scoring charts...and also delivered a depressing statistic to go alongside all his records.

He is now the striker to have scored the MOST goals in the Premier League without winning it, taking away Fowler’s unwanted stat.

With the two Manchester clubs hot on his trail, the complete lack of trophies at Spurs is something he will have to now address, especially without Champions League football next season. An all-time great deserves better.

His delightful firsthalf finish took him to 20 league goals for the season, and into an elite club of just four strikers in the Premier League era to score 20 or more in at least five seasons.

To be mentioned in the same breath as the others to have achieved that remarkable feat – Alan Shearer, Sergio Aguero and Thierry Henry – is to be on equal terms with the greatest.

His second goal – and even better finish – put him past Fowler on 164, and to be in that company without winning one trophy is astonishing... and unthinkable. Everton would certainly agree with his status. That opening goal was his 11th in his past 12 games against the Blues, and they must be sick of the sight of him.

Michael Keane inadvertently provided the assist when he flicked Tanguy Ndombele’s cross into the path of the Spurs striker, a gift which Kane took with the enthusiasm of a kid at Christmas.

Yet if their centre-forward is Tottenham’s greatest strength, then their failings were clear to see as the first half progressed.

Everton were level within four minutes when the outstanding Gylfi Sigurdsson teed up James to shoot, and Sergio Reguilon foolishly tried a challenge from behind, clipping the forward. Sigurdsson’s finish from the spot was emphatic.

Everton then controlled the game for long periods, and should have been ahead before half-time.

Only the reactions of Hugo Lloris who stopped them. Richarlison missed three chances – the final one seconds from time – which would have delivered a deserved winner for the Blues.

The draw was not good enough for either club’s European ambitions.

Sigurdsson had shown him how to do it, with a goal of the season contender, as he caressed sub Seamus Coleman’s cross into the far corner with a touch that would put a crying baby to sleep, to put the Blues ahead.

But Kane wasn’t finished even if Spurs looked as though they were.

Again Keane made a mistake, heading sub Erik Lamela’s cross into Mason Holgate and consequently into the path of the striker, who finished with the killer instinct of the very best.

Kane limped off near the end. If it is serious, this could even be his Spurs swansong...and perhaps that of his boss Jose Mourinho too.