Harry keeps up his relentless assault on Leicester to ruin Rodgers’ Champions League ambitions

HARRY KANE hunts Foxes like posh toffs on horseback with hounds – and has 16 goals in 14 games against Leicester to show for it.

As the England captain took Tottenham within touching distance of north London supremacy over Arsenal for the fourth consecutive year,

Leicester’s tribute to Devon Loch gathered depressing momentum.

Just before lockdown, Brendan Rodgers had a nine-point cushion in the top four and the Foxes’ route to Champions League football looked impregnable.

But they have since turned meltdown into an art form.

If Leicester’s second-half collapse at Bournemouth eight days ago was a masterclass of negligence, their goose was cooked inside 40 minutes here.

Spurs boss Jose Mourinho did his former club Manchester United a huge favour by turning over their main rivals for a topfour finish.

And although Leicester peppered Hugo Lloris with 24 shots – the most by a visiting team at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium – it looks like Europa League football at the King Power next season.

Dress it up any way you want, but that’s a bit like thinking you’re going to win a Ferrari, only to be handed the keys to a Vauxhall Corsa. Rodgers has had nightmares about pitting his wits against Mourinho ever since he missed out on the title by a whisker at Liverpool.

Steven Gerrard’s fateful slip, Demba Ba galloping clear to score and the Special One beating his chest theatrically after Chelsea’s 2-0 win at Anfield in 2014 are painful memories Rodgers would prefer to consign to amnesia.

And inside six minutes, Rodgers was suffering at the hands of his nemesis again.

Heung-Min Son sprang the offside trap and although Kasper Schmeichel appeared to have the Korean’s shot covered, the Foxes keeper was stranded by a telling deflection off James Justin.

Kane had strayed offside, and could have compromised Schmeichel’s view, but VAR