Hot Harry Kane blows records away

What more can you say about Harry Kane?

Going into this game, the England striker needed one more goal to overtake Lionel Messi as Europe’s top scorer and ended up with another hat-trick, his eighth of 2017, to end the year on a high and lift Tottenham back into the top four, albeit briefly.

Kane’s three goals against a porous Southampton side took his year’s tally to 56, the best total by a single player in Europe’s major leagues and a new record in the Premier League era, taking him three clear of Alan Shearer’s previous high of 36 league goals in 1995.