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survivorcutthroat · 7 years

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Episode 1: “There’s a 50 year old playing this game.” - Zack (Part 2)

*shocker* Nehe blew it. Big.

Good news? We got Seamus to join us + I think there's a very tentative plan in motion right now....Seamus told Nehe that Zack and Amir are close so if me/him/Nehe and Dustin vote together we have instant majority and we can boot Zack like I have been wanting to....

But of course, I can't trust Seamus yet as he is yet to tell this info directly to me - just to Nehe. I'll work on that...

But for now I'll let Nehe do the scheming for the both of us so that if it backfires, the bullet hits him harder than me. =)

Stevie is now on our tribe, as we have lost immunity. I'm selling him on the idea of "Ali is the guy here we all look to for guidance" so that he wants Ali gone. I've been gunning for Ali while having an alliance with him since day one. Gotta cut throats before throats cut you.

This is so uglyyy omg. Voting Sherry was a huge mistake, however, we had no idea what the vote would entail. It could have been voting someone to redemption island for all we know. Sherry had to complete a series of puzzles, and they're some of the worst puzzles I've ever seen. Stevie and Seamus are fucking freaks. Then this twist comes and they have to vote at our tribal too. And freaking Stevie chooses my tribe

I hate Stevie and my relationship with him isn't very good. I prefer Seamus because I think he would have my back. I don't feel safe, but I have Ali and Bodhi. Dom might help me, but he hasn't really talked to me since the first day. Sherry and I don't talk to, and she is super busy. My concerns are that Sherry might have something for doing the challenge, and Stevie might try to stir the pot. Kill me, Tommy help me out god. I have no idea why Eddie hates me, he's trying to rig against me. This cast is meh no wonder I'm on it.

Btw, I came to a realization that I should consider not dating, liking, crushing, or doing anything with another guy they are disgusting and fakes and ugly. I'm so done with them.

Me: let me be more social!

also me: doesn't talk to people on my tribe

Okay I made a decision. I'm gonna stick to my guns. I am not letting nehe or crow leave and im not compromising. I know I've been in denial but it's time to face the facts. My tribe is going to tribal. I'm going to make sure nehe doesn't go. I think he'll 100% be a loyal ally. He so sweet and I like him and I have a feeling he's not gonna hit it off with a lot of people.

Second, I truly truly hope crow doesn't go. I love him as a person he's literally my husband but like, I'm not gonna throw my game away for him. If he's the one going then he's the one going. I need to make sure me and nehe are safe over him because I can control nehe more than I can control crow. If crow does go, then me and nehe are enough to force a tie if we go to tribal again.

Third, is zack. Zack and I have a long history and I've known him for 2 years. Taking him out isn't bad for my game but I genuinely would be so bad because I love him as a person so I really really don't want to.

Fourth is Dustin, nice kid, pretty hot lowkey, but he can go. I really do like him as a person but uhhhgg

Zack just confirmed he's with Dustin. ZAXK WANTS ME HIM AND DUSTIN TO ALIGN. I WASNT MEANT FOR THIS FUCKING GAME. THIS IS Not what I want. I think crow is gonna be the one to go. I am SO sad. I DONT WVEN KNOW IF I TRUST ZACK OR DUSTIN. WHAT IF IM BEING PLAYED? I WANT TO FUCKING SCREAM. How am I suppose to talk to dustin when he never fuckin replies? Maybe I should just vote myself out and be lucky. If I'm with Zack/Dustin I'm at the bottom cuz they're close. If I'm with nehe and crow I'm at the top cuz they're both close to me. I'm just gonna keep my mouth shut. That's what I'm gonna do. I'm going to keep my fucking mouth shut and wait for zack and Dustin to campaign to nehe and wait to see what crow wants to do. I need to like be patient and wait. That's what I need to do

We are more than halfway through round one and I am loving this game!! When it started and I saw the cast reveal i almost immediately quit because i saw Jaiden and Sid and i needed to GO, but then they weren't on my tribe so it was fine. I really like my tribe! Me and Tommy have always gotten along, although we don't have much playing experience together. Cole and I have a weird relationship in games that I don't fully understand but this time around I am liking it. I like Abel, and Matt is a cool dude. i really like that all of us searched for the idol because otherwise I probably wouldn't have searched and missed the potential opportunity. In terms of the other people in the cast, I LOVE LIANA!!!! One of my faves, so happy she is here! Seamus I get along with well, and surprisingly I have been talking to Bodhi a decent amount. My biggest fear is in this game I don't know how more than half of these people are as players. I know about less than half of the cast and Id on't like that. gonna have to snoop around and ask how these bitches played in their past games.

So walking into this game - I feel pretty decent about the cast. I know certain people for good reasons and some for bad reasons. When I look at the people I see Dustin & Cole, of which as all played BBHell together and on separate occasions flirted with each other. This was my first game from a year ago. I had to unblock Dustin from a year ago. Yikes.

People are recognizing me from India. "India", "robbed of Switzerland" whatever blah blah blah. Considering I don't play tumblr to often I kinda just like to do me so I play a bit medicore I guess. But they all know me so w/e.

My tribe is pretty decent. I'm happy. As a tribe we haven't talked but one on one my strongest relations are in this tribe. Sherry is one of my bffs

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Oh my, I'm so scared about this game. At least Stevie won the immunity challenge but I feel like I'm missing out on so much gameplay. I feel like there is a alliance(s) that I'm not in. What should I do, I've generally scared. I think people like me personally, but I could be wrong like always. I'm really trying to lay low in this game and I'm hoping people will forget about me for the most part the game. I don't know if I should start a majority alliance in my tribe OR I should get 2 people from each tribe and form a 8 person alliance where we all work together to get rid of people that isn't in the alliance, the nice thing about two tribes losing two members tomorrow is that this alliance could totally happen. The only thing is that this plan would completely backfire on me because I would be playing too hard to fast. I'm so conflicted, if my tribe does up going to tribal, I'm probably going to vote out Matt because I know him the least (I've said this like 7 times jeez). I'm going to try and be lovable in this game and have people think I'm easily manipulated and doing their will so they won't target me. Oh man, this game makes me paranoid.

So pretty much whats going to (hopefully) happen is that Nehe will be hitting the road after taking 4 hours of his life on those puzzles. Yes he didnt quit. But still he was 3 hours behind even placing 2nd. For us to be down to a tribe of 4 its going to rely on comp scores so he has to go. ive talked alot to crow, amir ,and zack and we all seem to get along. however i am suspicious of amir and zacks previous relationship. Hopefully we can all vote together today and send Nehe packing.Oh my, I'm so scared about this game. At least Stevie won the immunity challenge but I feel like I'm missing out on so much gameplay. I feel like there is a alliance(s) that I'm not in. What should I do, I've generally scared. I think people like me personally, but I could be wrong like always. I'm really trying to lay low in this game and I'm hoping people will forget about me for the most part the game. I don't know if I should start a majority alliance in my tribe OR I should get 2 people from each tribe and form a 8 person alliance where we all work together to get rid of people that isn't in the alliance, the nice thing about two tribes losing two members tomorrow is that this alliance could totally happen. The only thing is that this plan would completely backfire on me because I would be playing too hard to fast. I'm so conflicted, if my tribe does up going to tribal, I'm probably going to vote out Matt because I know him the least (I've said this like 7 times jeez). I'm going to try and be lovable in this game and have people think I'm easily manipulated and doing their will so they won't target me. Oh man, this game makes me paranoid.

welp. i'm going to mother fucking tribal.

my plan? seamus told me nehe and crow said my name.. so nehe and crow can CHOKE. i wanna make an alliance with dustin and amir and vote nehe out hehe. honestly. can all these people choke so i can win. like just give me the win.

This is so ugly. I love Ali so much. Me and Ali have an alliance with Bodhi, but Bodhi does not trust Ali. Sherry is obviously trying to save herself, and why the hell is it catching on? Dom's dumbass is barely here, Stevie shouldn't even be a part of this tribe this twist is rigged. But Bodhi? Like hell man why do you think Sherry is going to be more loyal to us than Ali? We voted for Sherry! Unless he's saying he didn't vote or didn't actually vote. Like Sherry and Stevie i undersrand voting for Ali, but Bodhi? What the hell? We're in an alliance with him do you really think he's going to flip onus now? So stupid these people are so stupid.

Nehe and I are talking, and he's one of the few people in the game I think is absolutely telling me the truth. I want him on my side when a swap hits. Right now my trust is in Amir, Abel, Dom, Sherry, and Nehe. I've got moderate amounts of trust with Crow, Mearl, Tommy, Stevie, Rob, Ali (but im killing him tonight), Seamus, and several other people. I am feeling GOOD about this game if I can make it past this tribal.

I talked to everybody that's originally on my tribe and the vote is split between Sherry and Ali. Bodhi is such a snake. I went on call with Dom who I loved a lot the first night and he told me that Bodhi exposed our alliance to him for no reason. Dom isn't even close to Bodhi. Bodhi is obviously trying to control the vote and doing what is right for him. Fake I knew i never liked him. I do want to work with Dom and Eddie's Breadies is definitely not a thing anymore.

[12:35:25 PM] Bodhi: Who are you working with on your tribe>

[12:35:34 PM] Nehe Mehe: lol can you keep a secret?

[12:35:52 PM] Bodhi: absolutely

[12:35:55 PM] Nehe Mehe: at the moment all of them cause they all wanna work with me

[12:35:56 PM] Bodhi: there's no one i'd tell

then i went and told Amir.

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1 hour later:

I'm hella nervous tribal council is coming up in three hours but everything should be fine. Amir settled on voting out Zack and Seamus is all good and so is Crow and I dont know where Dustin is at but yeah he better vote Zack out too. I gotta watch how I play out in the Live tribal portion but I feel like I have a chance to stay but I can tragically still get blindsided.

[2:41 PM] Ali TAnveer: We need you You're the fun person in the tribe

[2:41:31 PM] Bodhi: I wanted tribal at 5 :'(

[2:41:40 PM] Ali TAnveer: I was. Tribal now

[2:41:46 PM] Ali TAnveer: Or 5 :(

[2:42:48 PM] Bodhi: 5 is just better

[2:44:08 PM] Ali TAnveer: It is [2:44:15 PM] Ali TAnveer: I might be out tonight

Ali has no idea how right he is. He means that he wont be around for tribal, but he won't be around after tribal either.

15 minutes later:

OOPS hahahaha fuck. Ok so Rob wants me to flip on the plan to take out Ali, and he's made good arguments. I'm gonna keep Ali around and do Sherry instead. Sherry is less active, and has more friends. Ali is a more visable target. There goes my big flip plan!

Ugh okay so this is #4 on day 4. So basically since i won my tribe was safe. Then we got to deal with 2 twists. First is do we want to keep, throw away, or give someone and idol clue. Of course i keep it bc why would I want someone else to have it? Plus i can just lie and give others a fake clue. The second is that I joined the red tribe and go to tribal with them but im immune... So i get to vote and im p sure imma vote zack, even though i think i can work with him, i need switzerland and great lakes people to leave. I cant risk having their former relationships come into play and bite me in the butt. SO tonight it will either be Nehe or Zack but I'm voting Nehe! Wish me luck!

Okay y'all I'm packing my bags. Fuck! This! Twist! FUCK THIS CAST! I HATE. Fuck seamus. Next time I'm on a tribe with him he's getting lit tf up. It's round one and he made up lies about me already and it's really sad because he really doesn't know who he's fucking with. Bitch boy just ruined his own game If I survive this tribal I'm going to end him. I am going to Fucking END SEAMUS. He looks like the mom from suite life of zack and cody. He's like telling nehe that me and zack are best friends and basically pinning the target on us and telling nehe that I talked to him the least when I literally have talked with Seamus everyday. Like is he inbred? I was starting to really like him but he truly fucked himself over now. I don't rest until his basic white gay ass goes.

The info I know:

1. Make nehe 100% on board with me again.

2. Nehe wants to vote zack or Dustin but he doesn't want to vote crow.

3. Zack wants to convince nehe to vote Dustin instead of him but he still wants to vote nehe out.

4. Seamus wants either zack or I out

Info I need:

1. Is dustin still 100% on the vote nehe out train?

2. Crow told me and Dustin he wants to vote nehe but told nehe he wants to do zack or Dustin but preferably Dustin. What tf does crow want?

Nehe knows too much. Crow isn't gonna go, no one wants him out. I got nehe protecting me right now. What I need to know is If crow is really with nehe and he genuinely wants to vote out zack or Dustin.

As much as I love nehe, Crow has sunk his social game claws into him already. He's the middle man between zack/Dustin and me/crow. If I'm able to survive this round and get through this I can for sure make the target next week to be Dustin or crow. Nehe is STILLLLL telling people that me and zack are a final 2.

I FUCKING HATE THIS CAST. Dustin keeps me sane. I'm glad I have him. How did he go from my least fav on the tribe to my absolute fav?

[7/6/17, 3:52:25 PM] Amir: On 7/6/17, at 3:51 PM, Nehe Mehe wrote: > you are way nicer than i would’ve guessed Amir

Okay I feel fucking bad but like he literally went and told the whole tribe that me and zach are a final 2. Im scared but tbh my skin has been clear for a long ass time and I got a pimple today and this game is to blame. If I get voted out I might become sane again.

Ah what a lovely event tribal council is! I thought I would be in trouble but I'm actually likable I think??? Wow I'm shooketh.

So after Nehe's blunder at the comp and Zack's inept social game, it put them both on the chopping block. I would love to just chop both but I have to choose apparently....Nehe has Seamus on his side and Zack has Amir on his side leaving Dustin and I, the dream team of distrust, as the swing votes. (But there's a lot of lies in between so it might not be that clear)

And although I'm closer to Nehe, him going reaps more benefits as I gain trust with Dustin, Zack, and Amir and cut the only person who would be my enemy moving into this tribe swap....

So I'm throwing my first knife at Nehe and I think it's going to pierce his heart. Whoops! #AnyoneButMe right?

#ChaosCrow or #CutthroatCrow ? I bet bitches didn't see me cutting so early but this is my second chance and I'm ready to draw blood.

SO! Guess who's ready for another summer of stress, sadness and seventh place? It's ya boy, Sid! With Magyi's tribal in 15 minutes, this confessional MAY be a little overdue, but I'm here to break down days one through four for you.

Sagu is a beautiful tribe for beautiful people. At least, that's what I thought. Now, I've realized that I'm kinda pissed off that I'm not with my Twister Sister Sherry, or my number one: Amir. Y'all put me on a tribe with Jaiden, whose reputation precedes him, Luke, who I haven't talk to in days, and Seamus, who is probably the worst liar I've met. Seriously, someone let him win a game? I trust Liana the most right now, but even that is like a 7/10.

I vibed with Seamus at first, but as soon as I approached him about working together, he really showed his cards with his tone. I don't trust him at all, and, after hearing about his antics on Magyi (thanks to this loser twist), I trust him even less. As SOON as I get the chance, he's gone. I have a metaphorical place on my wall for his metaphorical head. WE'RE GOING TROPHY HUNTING, BOYS. That being said, I'm in an "alliance" (more of a trust cluster) with him and Liana.

I really feel like I'm keeping a level head, and I'm trying to play less antsy. That, however, isn't going to keep me from making big moves. One World sucks, but at least I can talk to Amir. He's honestly my number one, and I'd never betray him. I love Sherry too, and I can't wait to reunite with her again. I'm going to go watch Magyi's tribal now, but I'm so excited to play Cutthroat Island!!! It's going to be a doozie.

Idk what's happening this tribal, maybe bodhi is not with us? He aint replying maybe they are against me and rob, these people are crazy and I just wanna stay, I give my heart and souls to this game.

Hello! I'm back for a third time now to attempt a second win! I'm really nervous to start the season but also super excited to have gotten another chance at the win. It's weird being one of two winners in this season. The feeling is just weird and unexplainable. I believe this season is going to be super messy and people will be all over the place, I just hope to at least make merge and jury and from there get to the end. My tribe is really good we have a lot of people who made it far and I genuinely like all of them. Since this is a one word season I wanna make a few connections with the people on other tribes to so I'm safe for a swap or something. I feel like I'm paranoid 24/7 this season compared to my other two seasons where I felt I always tried to make a safety net for myself... this season there is no way I can make a safety net yet because I don't trust many if any people. As for my tribe I feel like I wouldn't be the first boot just because of my first impressions I think, however you can never know. For right now before swaps or anything I wanna be seen as a coattail rider and start from the bottom up and work my way into a good position so people will not target me right away and work on relationships with people.

I'm so happy Stevie won the challenge because that means I made Final 18! I'm so happy I didn't get the first two boots I honestly would have actually cried A LOT. I'm even more nervous now that there is less people because one step closer to the end and it'll only get more cutthroat from here on out.

I went on call with Dom who revealed Bodhi is shady. Dom said that he would like people to be straightforward with him. I agree, so i decided to tell Ali everything. Ali knows what is happening because i do really like him and he deserves to know. I told Bodhi that voting Ali is stupid and he believed me. Sherry is going to flip because she knows she's on the chopping block. So flipping Bodhi should flip Dom too. The vote should be Sherry, but she said she has the idol. I don't know if I believe it, but it should be Ali then? Fucl Stevie btw. If this vote goes to plan I'll scream I might have done that.

I had 7 calls back to back to back.

JAIDEN I hated Jaiden from before this game, but after talking to him he seems quite alright and I'd love to work with him this time around. I actually really like jaiden which is a huge suprise.

ROB Rob just needed some reassuring. I reassured his ass.

ALI Ali needed reassuring as well. I did the exact same to him

STEVIE I needed to fill Stevie in on the vote so he didn't get mad when it was Sherry

ABEL We talked about the game for a bit, nothing spesific but we got along great ALI Abel hung up on me and Ali wanted me to call again. We said almost nothing and I think he's happy.

ABEL Oh my god. This was the most important call of the game. We were giggling about our dislike of Luke together, and we're going to go FAR. I love Abel and I want to go to the end with him.

#AnyoneButMe

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Harry Kane is as timeless as his purple patch is endless

At some point Tottenham hero Harry Kane just totally dedicated himself to being the best and pursued that goal with intensity and ruthlessness. Who’s this then? Harry Edward Kane is 28 in a couple of weeks and is currently a striker for Spurs but perhaps won’t be for much longer. And in case you’ve been off your head on mushrooms for the last few days, he has just led England to a European Championship final for the very first time, scoring the rebound from a saved penalty that took them there. A 6ft 2ins Walthamstow boy, growing up 15 minutes from White Hart Lane, he spent a year on Arsenal’s youth books before Liam Brady got rid saying he was a chubster and not athletic enough. He joined Spurs in 2009 when he was 16 but only made a single appearance until the 2013/14 season, being famously sent out on loan to Leyton Orient, Millwall, Norwich and Leicester where he ‘learned to play football with grown men’ as the grizzled old warhorse managers always put it, with just a hint of the homoerotic. He played 65 games for those clubs and scored 16 times. On returning to Spurs there were still a lot of doubts about him. ‘Kane Not Able’ was a headline someone must surely have written after a barren spell in front of goal. But in 2014/15 it all changed. Suddenly he dropped weight, his body seemed to get far bigger and harder. He seemed to get much wider, much more well-developed. Whether this was simply his body growing into adulthood, or whether he’d been on the beef tea and chicken giblets, I don’t know. But the change was remarkable. He netted 31 in 51 that season and from the chubby, dull caterpillar had emerged the bright elusive butterfly of Kane love. Since that season he’s scored 216 times for Spurs in 310 games with 2017/18’s remarkable 41 goals in 48 games being his best campaign total to date. Now with his own personal chef to make sure the chicken and pasta is just the right temperature and to make sure he doesn’t, like the rest of us, eat a bucket of Mackie’s salted caramel ice cream because he’s depressed at the state of the country with a charlatan like Boris Johnson getting a large parliamentary majority despite being a useless, duplicitous, lying bastard. His (Kane’s, not Johnson’s) assists stats now impress massively, too, as he has transformed himself into two players: one a striker, one a playmaker. Spurs, of course, continued not to win anything under the guiding bucket-on-a-stick that is Daniel Levy and yet relied on Kane to make them look like a serious club involved in a serious project to be serious about coming somewhere in the top ten every season. The result is the Kane trophy cabinet is full of personal honours but entirely empty of actual trophies. The Queen even took sympathy on Harry and in 2019 gave him an OBE to play with, which he no doubt looks at wistfully in the silence of a long night. Inevitably Harry has got a bit fed up with having the piss taken out of him, but despite this he still signed an extension which was very, very silly but then contracts are worthless totems and he has already phoned a cab to go to what I insist on still calling Maine Road and being stroked like a pro by Pep Guardiola. His goal tally for clubs now stands at 237 in 401 games. Meanwhile, for England he’s reached 38 goals in 60 games and looks odds-on to break Wayne Rooney’s record of 53 goals without any hair. He’s about to surpass infamous movie-hating-because-they’re-not-real, Michael Owen and his record of 40 goals. It’s not far-fetched to think he could finish with 65-70 goals for England.

Why the love? In the interests of full disclosure, for years I never thought Kane was a top-rank footballer. I remember seeing him huff and puff his way around the pitch in 2013/14 as Spurs gave him 19 games in the first team that season, during which time he scored just four times. He looked a bit useless and it was hard to know what role suited him. He was too slow, sometimes to the point of lumbering, to play on the shoulder, but didn’t seem to know how to play a lone striker and didn’t have the ball game to be a No. 10. I fully expected him to drop down the leagues and be playing for Southend by now. This went so deep that even as he started scoring and playing fantastic football, I still expected this to be a blip, a purple patch and nothing more and that his form would recede to the mean soon enough. Of course this never happened, though when he goes through one of those periods of looking like his legs are made out of night storage heaters and he is running through peanut butter, that thought always returns. Indeed, I can’t think of any supreme striker that is capable of looking so exhausted, washed out and anaemic, only to suddenly turn up the saturation and bloom into a bloody brilliant goal machine. He is, of course, a gift to the awful tabloid and right-wing press in general. Here’s a nice boy who married his childhood sweetheart and does right by everyone. He won’t be found at a Kyle Walker sex party, indeed it is hard to imagine Harry even knows what sex is, despite having two children. Not an ounce of that sort of twinkle in the Kane eyes, oh no. The press seem to have turned him into some sort of cartoon English character who has just returned from the Crusades or something and they vaunt his every move at every opportunity whilst overlooking the similar or greater achievements of others. Even on Wednesday night it took Ian Wright to query why he had got Star Of The Match and not Raheem Sterling who, by any stretch of the imagination, or any perusal of the statistics, deserved it more. Hard not to think the worst about such things. Not that it is Harry’s fault, or indeed, anything to do with him at all. His commitment to his game and to his club and country has always been exemplary. He’s developed into not just a phenomenal striker but also a brilliant provider. This isn’t a role that many, if any, perform well. To state the obvious, it is hard to create goals for others and score them yourself as well but last season’s 14 assists and 23 goals in the Premier League show that is exactly what he does. Some players seem like instinctively great footballers who are born to it. Harry doesn’t. His success seems purely the product of incredible hard work and dedication. At some point he just totally dedicated himself to being the best and pursued that goal with intensity and ruthlessness. For a very modern player, playing a very modern role, there is nonetheless something quite timeless about him. Maybe he is a familiar sort of archetype: the big lad up front who scores loads of goals. However, he has refined the role massively and very much made the dual role of scorer and assist machine all his own. What the people say A bursting mailbag this week, as everyone wants to share their Harry love. We start, as ever, with a lovely 4_4_haiku: Draws you in too deep Swivels, bursts, dissects the lines Now he’s free – and scores — 4_4_haiku (@4_4_haiku) July 9, 2021 ‘He’s really good at manufacturing fouls.’ ‘When he first broke into the first team, I thought that if you were to combine Andros Townsend and Harry Kane you would end up with 2 players: one quick and tricky with an excellent shot and brilliant decision making, and one with the opposite characteristics. Wven as a youngster his decision making was invariably spot on even if the execution wasn’t.’ ‘A player who is easy to like, perhaps because he is more of a hardworking Harry than a Flash Harry.’ ‘On tour before his breakthrough season, he saw a senior pro ask the press officer to bat away media requests. Kane said: “Never tell the media I’m too busy – I want to learn how to be the best I can at every aspect of this.” And he has been true to his word ever since. #Respect.’ Kane is one of our own. Means so much to Spurs fans. All about the team. As a young player, he and Ryan Mason took on established players in a dressing room clash, punches thrown allegedly, because they weren’t pulling their weight. Changed the whole ethos at the club — Alan Fisher (@spursblogger) July 8, 2021 ‘Genuinely nice bloke.’ ‘Won Young Player of the Season at Millwall in 2012. Was very humble during his time at the club and never let the success go to his head; he’s clearly been working hard on his game ever since!’ ‘His mental resilience is wildly underestimated.’ ‘Something about him that is not very aesthetically pleasing about how he plays. But by Christ is he good? If Mbappe is Gower, then Kane is Boycott. Hope that makes sense.” Beautiful technique, should be at an elite club (he would have scored a trillion goals if he played for Bayern Munich). Also his face looks like a sepia photo of somebody from WW1 (“…and this is your great, great uncle Harry, who fought in the Somme…”) — Stuart Dennis (@Stuart_Dennis) July 9, 2021 ‘Someone’s opinion on Kane is very much a barometer for their football knowledge/worth as a person. If they slag him off, one or both of those things is probably defective.’ ‘Ever since we first heard the name Harry Kane he’s not been good enough for some people, he just shuts them up one after another with goals, goals, goals. Seems likeable and intelligent. Manager material for sure if he wants it.’ ‘Kane was written off by 70% of Spurs fans when he first broke through. Too slow and not exciting, it was said. Hard work, determination and natural striker instinct made many of us look like muppets and deservedly so. The best Spurs player for a generation and deserved legendary status.’ ‘He’s a genuinely elite player, who obviously just loves playing football. Definitely won’t see him falling out of a club at 3am. Does boil a lot of peoples p*ss, never sure why to be honest.’ He’s like a combination of Shearer and Sheringham. And that’s wasn’t a bad combination. — Rob Michael-Phillips (@RobMP73) July 9, 2021 ‘His career has an interesting arc. Clearly worked hard early on and showed an underrated ability to adapt, accepting and acknowledging gaps in his own game. Suspect he’s always had to think how he can best impact games and it’s become a real virtue as he’s lost some of his pace and earlier physicality.’ ‘He’s a good example of natural talent only being part of the package. There will have been plenty of players in his age group touted as being more talented yet his mentality has seen him excel.’ ‘Maybe be nice to see him fall over a bit less mind!’ ‘His finishing is the difference, head, left foot, right foot. He hits the inside netting. Not a wonder kid, not a big signing, he impressed in training. A classic case of a player succeeding against the odds.’ 25th August 2011, a young striker starts a 2nd leg Eufa Cup play off game with Spurs 5-0 up from the away leg After half hour he takes and misses a pen, the game finishes 0-0 We experts knew he’d never score for us Fortunately Harry knew better — Brian (@LukaMoric14) July 8, 2021 Three great moments THAT penalty, shot from the crowd. I thought David Baddiel’s idea was good, that this showed the conscious and the subconscious player. Self-conscious, inhibited and pressured into taking the penalty poorly, but then the subconscious kicks in and without evening thinking, he pounces on it and slots home without even looking: His first goal for England back in 2015 v Lithuania, and look who set it on a plate for him: The assists impress as much as the goals: Future days If he does join Manchester City, it is hard not to see him scoring at least 85 goals per season and making 65 assists, so dominant will he be. Traditionally, players are said to reach their peak at 27 and 28, so is it all downhill from next year for Harry? That seems doubtful given his fitness regime. However he has, by common consent, been flogged like an old carthorse by Spurs and England too. As a result, there is always a moment in each season when he conks out, something goes ouch and he has to be out for a few weeks, then tends to come back too early and goes into the plodding through treacle mode while he gets some oil in his engine again. Hopefully, Guardiola will have spotted this Groundhog Day tradition and will rest him appropriately so that he breaks the cycle. Harry’s an easy man to like. There appears no side to him and you won’t find him with rope and an orange in his mouth in a hotel room, unless it’s for a bit of extra vitamin C. And there is nothing at all wrong with being decent and respectable. In that, Gareth Southgate must see some of his own quiet sensibilities in his captain and notably kept faith with him when he was out of form and struggling. On Radio 4’s ‘Deadringers’ programme, the fella doing the impression of Harry portrays him as a sort of simpleton, mouthing meaningless PR with an exaggerated (what we used to call) speech impediment. That always seemed a bit unfair and awkward. No-one could have served his country better than Harry and to take the piss out of him for not being the reincarnation of Peter Eustinov (ask your grandpa) seems a little shallow. He currently sponsors Orient. Which is a unique sort of thing to do to help support the club that gave him his professional start. The sponsorship has been donated to charities which will receive 10% of the proceeds of shirt sales. The home shirt shows a thank you message to the NHS frontline workers tackling the pandemic, the away shirt sporting a logo of Haven House Children’s Hospice, while the third kit features the mental health charity Mind. Aw.

At almost 28, he can reasonably expect to have a good eight to ten years in the game to rack up more records. In his later career, clearly he can drop deeper and dedicate himself to being some version of a 10. It’s not like he’s got bags of pace to lose and that should ensure his career is a long one. He also seems like the sort of player that would happily play on, even slipping down a division or two just to keep playing, as he doesn’t have a grain of the Billy Big Bollocks about him. The last ten years have seen him rise to the peak of the English game. The next ten should see him consolidate his legend and ensure his place in history. Read the full article

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