Chris Dunlavy
A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL

IF YOU want to know why Nigel Adkins was sacked by Charlton Athletic, watch Harry Kane and Jadon Sancho. By any measure, the England duo look laboured. Since completing a £73m move from Borussia Dortmund to Manchester United, Sancho has featured fitfully, falteringly and is yet to contribute a single assist or goal.
Kane has ten of the latter, an impressive tally, but is patently short of the dynamism that earned last season’s golden boot. Theories are myriad, from the burden of Sancho’s fee to Kane’s disappointment at failing to force a transfer to ...