Tottenham Hotspur's Harry Kane picked up a hamstring injury during the match against Southampton and will now be at until April, at the earliest. PA
Tottenham Hotspur's Harry Kane picked up a hamstring injury during the match against Southampton and will now be at until April, at the earliest. PA
Tottenham Hotspur's Harry Kane picked up a hamstring injury during the match against Southampton and will now be at until April, at the earliest. PA
Tottenham Hotspur's Harry Kane picked up a hamstring injury during the match against Southampton and will now be at until April, at the earliest. PA

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Blow for Spurs and England as Harry Kane is ruled out until April

Tottenham striker needs surgery to repair a ruptured tendon in his left hamstring

The National

January 09, 2020

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Harry Kane will be sidelined until April after Tottenham Hotspur revealed the England captain needs surgery to repair a ruptured tendon in his left hamstring.

Kane suffered the injury while taking a shot during Spurs' Premier League defeat at Southampton on New Year's Day, with specialists recommending that an operation was needed.

The 26-year-old has scored 27 goals in 31 appearances for club and country this season.

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The news presented another headache for Spurs manager Jose Mourinho, who has also seen midfielder Moussa Sissoko sidelined until April after undergoing knee surgery.

Spurs also have first-choice goalkeeper Hugo Lloris recovering from injury, along with summer signing Tanguy Ndombele as well as full-back pairing Danny Rose and Ben Davies.

Kane will now also miss England's friendlies against Italy and Denmark at the end of March.

However, if all goes well in his rehabilitation, Kane should be back in good time to lead the Three Lions into Euro 2020.

After the Southampton defeat, Mourinho said: "Everybody knows who he is, what he is, what he means for the team, the fans, the club.

"His quality, the routines that the team has playing with him, every minute of every game he doesn't play we miss, so every match that he doesn't play we're going to miss him."

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Dubai works towards better air quality by 2021

Dubai is on a mission to record good air quality for 90 per cent of the year – up from 86 per cent annually today – by 2021.

The municipality plans to have seven mobile air-monitoring stations by 2020 to capture more accurate data in hourly and daily trends of pollution.

These will be on the Palm Jumeirah, Al Qusais, Muhaisnah, Rashidiyah, Al Wasl, Al Quoz and Dubai Investment Park.

“It will allow real-time responding for emergency cases,” said Khaldoon Al Daraji, first environment safety officer at the municipality.

“We’re in a good position except for the cases that are out of our hands, such as sandstorms.

“Sandstorms are our main concern because the UAE is just a receiver.

“The hotspots are Iran, Saudi Arabia and southern Iraq, but we’re working hard with the region to reduce the cycle of sandstorm generation.”

Mr Al Daraji said monitoring as it stood covered 47 per cent of Dubai.

There are 12 fixed stations in the emirate, but Dubai also receives information from monitors belonging to other entities.

“There are 25 stations in total,” Mr Al Daraji said.

“We added new technology and equipment used for the first time for the detection of heavy metals.

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