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Ex-Spurs coach believes his Tottenham record can be broke by Kane with 50 goals

  /  Rick

Clive Allen has a firm grip on his place in Tottenham's history books, but admits Harry Kane is making him nervous about losing it.

Allen bagged a club-record 49 goals in just 54 matches during the 1986-87 season for Spurs, an achievement that is yet to be topped.

Kane looks the likeliest to break that and has already gone close when he plundered 41 goals in 2017-18 and Allen reckons the England captain, who has scored seven goals in 10 games so far this season, will be the only man to take the record off him.

'He has gone close. The way he has improved himself since coming in as a 16-year-old has been phenomenal,' Allen told the PA news agency.

'He has always had that ability to score goals and he has improved his all-round game.

'The way he conducts himself now, he has been incredible with how he has been this week.

'If anyone can do it, Harry can and if he does I will be the first one to shake his hand.

'I would like to maintain that record, and it will be an incredible feat if anyone does it, so good luck to him. He has already threatened to do it a couple of times.'

Allen scored 33 times in the league, with three hat-tricks, while also firing David Pleat's side to the FA Cup final and League Cup semi-final.

He opens up about that phenomenal season in his autobiography 'Up Front' and reveals how excelling at Spurs was his destiny.

'I was born two weeks after they did the double and my dad (Les Allen) was in that side,' he added.

'It was always my destiny to one day play for Tottenham, which obviously happened.

'I had the best years of my career there.

'It has been such a big part of my life, listening to my dad talk about the double, right the way through to the last day at White Hart Lane, it has had a big impact.

'You dream about breaking the record and hope that something like that could happen, but I never imagined it would.'