Tottenham and Liverpool fans and players have been at odds over Harry Kane’s 25th goal of the season.
Harry Kane was awarded Tottenham’s winner against Stoke City this week by the Premier League after it was earlier awarded to Christian Eriksen.
His decision to appeal the original decision caused anger among Liverpool fans, and later the players themselves, amid Mohamed Salah’s quest to win the Golden Boot
But there is one Liverpool player who may actually agree with Harry Kane.
Kane’s England colleague Daniel Sturridge, currently on loan at West Brom, is just as fanatical about scoring goals and has previously been in a similar situation.
In 2016 a goal was awarded to Philippe Coutinho as Liverpool beat Everton, but Sturridge claimed it deflected off him on the way in.
Liverpool didn’t appeal the decision as Tottenham did, but Sturridge said that as far as he was concerned, he was counting it towards his personal tally.
He told The Guardian: “He (Coutinho) would claim it is his but it touched me so it is my goal.
“If I shot and it hit someone I wouldn’t like to lose the goal but it hit me so I have to claim it. If it touches you, you claim it wherever it touches you — eyelash, wherever.
“It did actually touch me. I’m not the type of guy who would claim a goal if it didn’t touch me. I know there are some guys out there hungry for goals but I’m not that hungry.”
Funnily enough, the mockery and online savaging of Harry Kane right now wasn’t applied to Sturridge back then…
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