Sportskeeda's Top 10 iconic football moments of 2017

#9 Harry Kane breaks Alan Shearer's record and dethrones Lionel Messi

Harry Kane was unstoppable in 2017

Rejected by his childhood club Arsenal, loaned out to Leyton Orient, Millwall, Norwich City, and Leicester, the lad from Walthamstow never had anything laid out on a plate for him. There was no red-carpet laid out, there was no fast-tracking under a loving manager's wing, there was no championing of his cause by Chairmen or supporters... there was just a lot of unstinting hard work - head bowed, back unbroken - and a lot of patience.

Now, just four years after completing that underwhelming loan spell at Leicester City, he is arguably the best pure striker in world football.

How can you not love Harry Kane?

He was derided as a one-season wonder when he broke into the Tottenham Hotspur first team in 2014-15 and hammered in 21 goals, but two successive Premier League golden boots on (a third is well on the way)... well...

This past week he wiped away any doubts by beating Alan Shearer's twenty-two-year-old record for most Premier League goals in a calendar year and by becoming the first person not named Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo to top the goalscoring charts for a calendar year across competitions in a decade.

One-season wonder? Hah.