Robbie Keane pays incredible gesture to Spurs captain Harry Kane during heated debate with Graeme Souness on Sky Sports

FORMER Ireland skipper Robbie Keane has defended Harry Kane during a heated debate with Graeme Souness on Sky Sports.

The pair engaged in a heated debate regarding the Spurs’ skipper during the Super Sunday coverage of Liverpool vs. Tottenham.

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Graeme Souness and Robbie Keane clashed over Harry Kane on Sky Sports

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Tottenham Hotspur’s Harry Kane reacts after a missed effort against Liverpool

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Prior to today’s clash Kane spoke to Sky Sports and admitted that one of the reasons for the Spurs’ poor season is a loss of core values and repeated chopping and changing of managers.

But former Liverpool icon Souness was not impressed with Kane’s interview as he took aim at the England captain.

He suggested the striker was “media trained” before impling that this season he has let himself down, and his family.

Speaking to Sky Sports, he ranted: “I will be polite as I possibly can. When you are a professional football player, passion should be with you all the time, desire should be with you all the time. It is not a light switch, you can’t flick it on and off.

“Harry came across there as if he had been media trained, he knew what questions were coming and he knew how he was going to answer them. Maybe he consulted someone in PR at Spurs.

“I know I am a certain age and I know I am from a different generation, but I find that so weak.

“I played with players that the most important thing in their lives come Friday is what was going to happen on the Saturday and they went out there as if that was it.

“Everything I do and everything I contribute to in life is on the next ninety minutes. These players today come on and be interviewed are media trained, the supporters don’t want to hear that.

“Passion and desire for 45 minutes against Manchester United, what about back to the first game of the season in August, that is when passion and desire starts.

“And then it is with you throughout the season and if you are a good player and a good team, you might win something.

“But you don’t consistently let down supporters like this Spurs group of players have. They let down managers, they have let down supporters and ultimately themselves and their own families.

“I feel embarrassed for him in that comment, and I am a big fan of Harry Kane. 

“I think he could have said ‘I am disappointed myself, I have let my family down, I have let everybody I work with down’, I think he has to say that as a captain.

“I think the players at Spurs today are bordering on a disgrace. I have said he is a fabulous player, but I am criticising that interview of his.

“I played with leaders and what they do is dig you out.

“Does Harry do that for Spurs, or does he look after Harry?”

But ex-Spurs ace Keane was having none of what Souness was saying as the record Irish scorer praised Kane for being a leader in the Tottenham dressing room.

“I know that Harry is the one in the dressing room – if you look at the the squad – I would say that they’re lacking a lot of leaders.

“Harry is one of those leaders as is Hugo [Lloris] – but they don’t have ten of them. They have two or three of them [leaders] but Harry is certainly one of them.

So, I’d never ever question Harry. I know you’re not questioning him but for me he’s been fantastic considering how bad Spurs have been.”