Harry Kane hits brilliant hat-trick as Spurs canter to victory at Burnley

Dele Alli is not going to win any popularity awards this Christmas. Fresh from his ugly challenge on Kevin De Bruyne last week he was booked after just four minutes of this game for going in studs up on Charlie Taylor, and was arguably lucky still to be on the pitch when he won the penalty that put his side in front two minutes later.

The Burnley fans felt so anyway, though as Alli went to ground rather easily for the penalty it was hard to know which incident they were most incensed over. The tackle on Taylor was probably not deserving of a straight red card, while the penalty award, as seems to be the case so often at the moment was infinitely more debatable.

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