On a meet-and-greet with fans in Bavaria, the England captain talks about life with Bayern Munich and whether he has a chance of ever winning the Ballon d’Or
Harry Kane fixes you with the eyes of an overwhelmed compatriot alighting on a familiar face in a strange land. The smile, the clasping handshake and the immediate talk of cricket, England in India, suggest mutual reassurance, a sense we’re all on safer ground now.
It’s Sunday morning in Kirchweidach, a village of 2,000 deep in rural Bavaria, just by the Austrian border. It’s a stunning, sunny day in a village as typically Bavarian as you can imagine, all lush meadows, crisp with frost and pretty houses with BMWs and views of imposing snow-clad Alpine peaks in the distance. It’s not Walthamstow.
