Since the start of England’s 2018 World Cup campaign, Harry Kane has started all but one of 19 tournament matches, missing a group-stage dead rubber against Belgium in Russia. He has played 1,620 minutes of England’s 1,830 across three tournaments. It is not a prospect Gareth Southgate will wish to contemplate, but it is a contingency for which he should plan: what would England do without their captain?
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