It’s a weird one, I think the FA likely said “meh, what the hell, why not? He’s five behind Salah and he’s England’s number 1 striker, it really doesn’t matter anyway so just let him have it”.
It’s trivial at the end of the day and while it’s part hilarious, part tragic, it’s obviously what he gets off on and denying him it after the comments he made would have created a lot more drama than just letting him have it. See things stand, we shake our heads a bit and take the piss out of him for it every now and again and that’s the end of it.
If the FA ruled against him, it would have been his National Team bosses saying he lied when he swore on his daughters life. That could easily get messy with a World Cup around the corner.
As pathetic as I think it is, maybe we should give him a bit more credit for it. It reminds me a bit of how Shearer and Lineker talk about their hunger for goals and how they’d claim just about anything as their own when they were strikers.
I’m usually moaning at English/British athletes for not having that single minded selfish determination that winners seem to have, perhaps Kane has that same desire and that’s what has got him to where he is?