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Watch: Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville comprise in a heated alternate over Harry Kane’s perform in Abdoulaye Doucoure’s pink card

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Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville have been involved in a heated alternate over Harry Kane’s perform in Abdoulaye Doucoure’s pink card on the Tottenham vs Everton battle on Monday.

The Everton midfielder Abdoulaye Doucouré was confirmed a straight pink card for hitting Kane inside the face in an incident instigated by the Spurs striker. Kane collapsed theatrically to the underside and chants of “cheat, cheat, cheat” accompanied his every contact thereafter.

The England captain was moreover booed off on the final whistle by a Goodison Park crowd in uproar after Michael Keane rescued a level for Sean Dyche’s group with a shocking Ninetieth-minute goal.

Carragher was a sort of who hit out at Kane for falling to the bottom fairly theatrically, branding his perform inside the sending-off ’embarrassing’.

“He stays down rolling around when there’s nothing wrong with him.” 🤔@Carra23 is vital of Harry Kane’s response to Doucouré pushing his face pic.twitter.com/A2w71PB0el

— Football Daily (@footballdaily) April 3, 2023

“Harry Kane should be ’embarrassed’ at his fall to get Abdoulaye Doucoure sent off,” talked about Carragher.

“It can nonetheless be a pink card for putting your hand in anyone’s face. Doucoure is mistaken. I’m constructive Sean Dyche will inform him that.

“But I wouldn’t go down there as a participant. There’s nowhere near adequate to permit you to go down.

“If I’d done that on the pitch I’d have been embarrassed. If I watched my own son do that… yeah, it might help his team win by getting the opposition down to 10 men. But when he got back in the car, I’d say: ‘What were you doing? Don’t ever do that again on a football pitch.’”

However, his co-pandit conflicted with hsi view and jumped to Kane’s defence.

“There isn’t any debate on pink card the least bit,’ Neville talked about. ‘Doucoure locations his hand up, the one debate is whether or not or not Harry Kane should go down.

“Harry Kane should never go to ground. But the only thing I’ve had before is when someone puts the clasp of their claw and it goes a little bit on your eye – it does shock you. That is very different to a hand in the face.”

Carragher responded: “The debate isn’t a few pink card and Harry Kane shouldn’t be occurring like that. It can nonetheless be a pink card by inserting your hand in anyone’s face.

“Doucoure is mistaken and I’m constructive [Sean] Dyche will inform him that, nonetheless I wouldn’t go down there as a participant. There isn’t any methodology near adequate to permit you to go down.

“If I done that on a pitch I’d be embarrassed and if I watched my son do that, yeah it might help his team win if the opposition are down to 10 men and it gives them an advantage, but when he got back in the car I would say, “what are you doing? Don’t ever do that again on a football pitch.”

However, Neville believes Kane going to ground would possibly help his group seal qualification for subsequent season’s Champions League.

“I’m tons nicer than i was 15 years prior to now,’ he talked about. ‘If Harry Kane stands up there, we’re talking about Champions League soccer, if he stands up which will have been a yellow because of it is deemed as a hand-off.

“Harry has gone down, whether or not or not he should have or not, to confirm Doucoure acquired despatched off.

“It is a part of the game people don’t like nonetheless in our dressing room, if my forward [does that] we’re there to win leagues, win video video games.

“You might call it cheating but you can’t put your hand in someone’s eye with your clasp like that.”

Ex-England players Danny Murphy and Chris Sutton moreover lambasted Kane for his antics.

“Not enough to send him on the floor, he’s embarrassing himself. Why’s he gone over like that stitching someone up? Doucoure would’ve been sent off anyway,” Murphy talked about on talkSPORT.

“A little flick to the face does not send you the ground like you’ve just been punched… but Doucoure’s an idiot.”

Harry Kane staying down like that is embarrassing

— Chris Sutton (@chris_sutton73) April 3, 2023

Sutton tweeted: “Harry Kane staying down like that is embarrassing.”