I’ve seen this being highlighted a fair bit on social media over the last few weeks (a couple of examples in the linked tweet), but it’s something I’ve seen Kane do pretty regularly and something that there’s dozens of examples of.
Knowing that the ball is coming, he looks at his opponent (which is the key bit for me and rules out it being an accidental collision) before backing in and bending down as the opponent jumps, pretty much always flipping the opponent into a cartwheel type motion and is awarded a free kick.
I cannot see how this isn’t a foul by Kane. He knows exactly what he’s doing and it’s a minor miracle that somebody hasn’t picked up a serious injury. It’s only a matter of time before someone breaks their neck and it really annoys me that something that is so dangerous is put down to “clever play”. It’s dangerous play and should be a FK against him as far as I’m concerned.
Interested to know the thoughts of others on this?