Martin Keown completely disagreed with Simon Jordan’s claims that Harry Kane ‘bottled’ his second penalty against France
When is the World Cup final? Date, kick-off time and venueNOT THE BES-TNewcastle make £50m-rated Napoli superstar Kvaratskhelia 'top target'Man United promote two youngsters to first-team ahead of Premier League return“We can dress it up in each way you want. The amount of mistakes I’ve made in my life, and some of them because I haven’t made a decision and I would question myself about my own bravery at certain times so I hold myself by the same standard.
“But it’s in his hands, and psychologically he overthought the penalty, whether he was conscious of the guy he plays alongside on a weekly basis, whether the circumstances himself have got the better of him, whether it was the whole dynamic of it. “I’m not suggesting it’s easy but if it was easy, Martin, everyone would be a bleeding footballer getting paid £300,000-a-week wouldn’t they?”Despite Jordan’s efforts to explain the situation, Keown replied: “I don’t think he deserves to be called a bottler when he steps up in that moment, the weight of the nation on his shoulders.”
Jim White then asked him if Kane had ‘lost his nerve’, but Keown still defended England’s joint top record scorer: “No, not at all. He just got it wrong technically, he just put too much power on it.”.Kane will now return to duty at Spurs, with English football set to resume following its mid-season break for the tournament.talkSPORT is bringing you wall-to-wall coverage of the 2022 World Cup.
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