Simon Jordan savages Harry Kane after ‘pathetic’ incident in Everton draw v Tottenham in Premier League live on talkSPORT
Simon Jordan has labelled Harry Kane going to ground during Tottenham’s draw with Everton as “pathetic” after Abdoulaye Doucoure was sent off.
Doucoure pushed the England captain in the face and was shown a straight red card for it, but Kane exaggerated his fall to the ground and made a meal of it to ensure the Toffees midfielder was punished.
And reacting to the incident on talkSPORT (4 April, 10:26), Jordan blasted Kane for his theatrics and believes the England skipper should be embarrassed by his actions against Everton.
“It’s pitiful, it’s difficult to understand,” he said (4 April, 10:27).
“The other sports must look at these guys and go, ‘what in God’s name are you all about?’. They might look at them with envy because the financial rewards in the Premier League are so vast compared with another sport, but they’ve got to look at them and go ‘what?’.
“You’ve got rugby players being hit full tilt, cricket players having balls bowled at them at 90mph, boxers getting punched in the face as a matter of course, and you’ve got our footballers who the moment they get touched are rolling around as if they got shot.
“It’s pathetic. I think it’s right to call it what it is and it’s pathetic. I genuinely think it’s pathetic. I don’t know why they don’t look at themselves and go, ‘well that’s a little bit embarrassing.'”
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Kane is described in the media by most outlets and personalities as a model professional, but this has put that argument to bed quickly.
Nobody is defending what Doucoure did and everyone knows he was rightly sent off, but there was no need for Kane to go down the way he did clutching his face and rolling around as if he’d been punched.
Kane has got a dark side, just like every other professional football player in the Premier League, and has often been called out for using these types of tactics in the past.
Now he’s being called out for it properly and the media will hopefully take notice of the fact this isn’t something new, and hopefully the league and officials can start to stamp this type of simulation out of the game.
Doucoure did wrong and was rightly punished, but that would have happened even if Kane didn’t flop to the ground in the way he did and that’s what needs to be encouraged.