Harry Kane celebrates scoring his second and England’s third goal

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The 125th cap was no different to the first for Harry Kane , who has now been in the business of goal accumulation for so long that it is only at the landmark moments, that all of us are obliged to step back and take in the full scale of the work he has created.

Peter Shilton took 20 years to rack up his 125 caps, while for Kane it has been just 11 – and then there are the goals. Two more on Tuesday took him to 91 which means that only 12 other England players in history have more England caps than Kane has England goals. This unassuming man from Chingford, who looks like a mildly rebellious academic from the late 1950s, was at it again: the first-time strike, the back-post header. He has some misses across these 11 years, most infamously from the penalty spot against France at the Qatar World Cup almost four years ago, so, yes, there are some regrets too.…