The Warm-Up: Harry Kane scores a real goal, Liverpool's cringeworthy video

Phew! For a minute there the Warm-Up thought we’d killed Harry Kane.

It only took a day or two for universally-admired football ace Harry Kane to become universally-ridiculed goal-thiever Harry Kane.

But, two months out from the World Cup, there appeared a live possibility that Kane’s confidence could be subjected to Death By Meme.

It’s the sort of gleefully self-defeating act England fans are great at; destroy your best player by telling him he’s a greedy fraud who would gladly sacrifice his own children in his quest to claim other people’s goals.

Fortunately, he realised the best way to stem the tide of ‘Harry Kane’s claiming that!’ bantz was to score Tottenham’s goals himself, and duly pelted one in from close range last night.

Just as well, because another blank last night would have made it seven games without a goal (sorry Harry, the Premier League might have given the Stoke one to you, but the Warm-Up and anyone with a pair of functioning eyes must take a principled stand).

As you were, Harry.

Your view on Liverpool’s latest video will depend very largely on whether or not you support Liverpool.

The clip, voiced by Jurgen Klopp, takes two minutes to explain the ways in which the team lying third in the Premier League is entirely unlike every other football club.

They have self-awareness, we have weapons-grade delusion.

So yes. It’s pompous, pretentious, self-congratulatory and above all wrong.

Liverpool are a fine club with a great history and good supporters. But there’s nothing – nothing – that makes the club inherently more special than any other. Unless you’re a Liverpool fan.

And this is the point. It wasn’t made for the legions of Twitter cynics cringing at the epic self-regard of it all. It was made for the fans – and on that basis it’s rather good.

Many of those fans do believe in Liverpudlian exceptionalism, and why wouldn’t they? Supporting a football club is an objectively silly and illogical thing to, but everyone does it. And the basis for that support is a belief – however mistaken – that your club is special.

Maybe not everyone would do it in quite such a messianic ‘On the third day Shankly made the earth’ way – but if you think you or your club are immune to overstating your uniqueness in the name of tribalism? Well, you’re as deluded as that video.

One unintended positive from the calamitous lack of title race action in Europe’s top leagues – it might make the World Cup better.

With nothing left to play for, Manchester City have sent Sergio Aguero for season-ending knee surgery in the hope he will be back to full fitness in time for Argentina’s opening World Cup game on June 16.

Sure, there are better times to score a free-kick against Bayern Munich than at 5-1 down... but this is quite a ping from Leverkusen’s Leon Bailey.

Plus, Everton fans have been asked to rate Sam Allardyce out of 10 in a club email survey - it’s probably not going to go that well.

The Warm-Up can conceive of no more hilarious way for a Proper Football Man to get sacked than via the results of an online poll.

Filets-o-Fish all round – Accrington have won promotion to the third tier for the first time in 58 years. Well done indeed.

The news that Inter Milan had put their players’ Instagram handles on the back of their shirts for the game against Cagliari provoked some pretty good reactions.

And, to be fair, it would have been pretty annoying to deploy them in match action. But once Inter took the field, their shirts were back to normal and the #AgainstModernFootball crowd could go back to complaining about kick-off times and Virgin Trains.

So, what have we learned from #InterSocialNight? Nothing at all.

The Warm-Up will be honest here. It has never really understood the payoff of the Accrington Stanley milk advert.

Anyway, here it is in the interests of nostalgia.

Jimmy Kimmel appeared on Zlatan Ibrahimovic Live last night.

The midweek Premier League action continues as Bournemouth take on Manchester United tonight. United need a win to erase memories of that execrable display against West Brom; anything for Bournemouth will rubber-stamp their top-flight survival.