DUNNE HAILS HARRY AS BAST HE HAS EVER SEEN

ALAN DUNNE would be more surprised if Harry Kane did not score against Millwall tomorrow, especially after seeing the Spurs striker close up at the start of his journey to stardom.

An 18-year-old Kane (left) made a big impression during his 2012 loan spell when he fired the Lions to Championship survival with seven goals in 22 games.

“He scored one of the best goals in training I have ever seen,” Den legend Dunne, 34, recalled ahead of Kane’s FA Cup reunion with his old club. “It was like Marco van Basten’s famous volley. We were playing eight-aside on a small pitch and time was almost up.

“The keeper has thrown it and it’s going over his head. I’m thinking, ‘He’s going to take a touch here’, but he hit it first time into the opposite top corner. ‘Wow! He’s got some talent’, I thought.

“It was something you would expect from Dennis Bergkamp or Paul Merson who had the audacity to hit a ball like that. I tried to do it after and couldn’t get anywhere near it.” That stunning strike came just a few weeks into Kane’s Millwall stint, and Dunne added: “We didn’t really know what he was about and at first I thought that goal was luck, but as time went on you realised that it wasn’t.

“I would be more surprised if he doesn’t score on Sunday.

“He was one of the best strikers and finishers I played with. He knew where to be, was lethal and given half a yard would find the same bottom corner every time in training. It was a joy

to watch.” Now player-coach at Bromley, Dunne described how Kane – initially so quiet “you’d just about get a hello out of him” – became a totally different person on the training pitch.

And as a “grounded pro” Kane arrived without a big-time attitude, so there was no need for Millwall’s intimidating senior players to “put him in his place” like they had with others.

Dunne said: “Some players play well or score at the weekend and you won’t see them Monday, Tuesday in training. They think they are top Premier League footballers. But his success didn’t faze him and the very best players are like that.

“The money, scoring every week at the top level, he’ll just get on and try and do more.

“But to improve the way he has in such a short space of time is incredible. He must be proud.

“I am proud to be a part of it as we tried to help. It made him a man because there are not many harder places to play than Millwall. If you can play at Millwall you can play anywhere.”