Everton: Chris Sutton destroys Harry Kane for role in Abdoulaye Doucoure sending off in draw with Tottenham
Chris Sutton branded Harry Kane “embarrassing” for playing up the incident as Everton midfielder Abdoulaye Doucouré was sent off on Monday night.
The England captain went down after the Mali international lost his cool just before the hour mark at Goodison Park on 3 April, and gave him a hand to the face.
But Spurs’ goalscorer on the night remained on the turf for a long time afterwards as if he had been levelled by a full blown punch, rather than the admittedly brainless but also relatively harmless lash out from the Toffees man, and Sutton was not impressed.
Reacting to the incident on his personal Twitter account Sutton wrote: “Harry Kane staying down like that is embarrassing”.
Pathetic
As soon as Doucouré lost his composure and put his hand to Kane’s face he was getting a red card, especially since an Everton player getting away with a contentious officiating decision happens once in a blue moon, so it didn’t need any extra acting up.
At worst it was a slap, but in truth it was more of a push, so unless he got a finger directly in the eye it was certainly not damage done to the Spurs striker that kept him down clutching his face for so long.
The only other purpose would to be to ensure that punishment was handed out, and since that was nailed on it was no surprise that he was booed by the home crowd for the rest of the game.
The sending off looked to have thrown away all the good work of a battling first hour, where Everton matched Tottenham and only a lack of quality in the final third undercut the endeavour.
Once Kane fired home a penalty after the unsighted Michael Keane tripped Christian Romero it looked like it would be game over, with misfortune compounding self-inflicted wounds.
But Sean Dyche’s Toffees have got nothing if not resilience these days and after going behind they were the better team despite the man disadvantage, so when Lucas Moura evened up the numbers with a mistimed stamp on Keane late on the centre-back, who was excellent throughout, took full advantage to stride forward and smash in a long-range equaliser.
In many ways a small amount of justice was done with that goal, and the unbeaten run stretches to four games.