Harry Kane lauds 'honest conversation' with Spurs chairman Levy

Tottenham Hotspur star Harry Kane revealed that an "honest conversation" with chairman Daniel Levy set the stage for a morale-boosting 2-2 draw with Manchester United and helped overcome a wave of discontent among supporters.

Spurs players interacted with chairman Levy after the 6-1 hammering at Newcastle United last weekend. The horror show at Newcastle more or less ended Tottenham's top-four hopes and also saw players reimburse fans for the cost incurred for the trip to Tyneside.

It also cost stand-in manager Cristian Stellini his job, with former midfielder Ryan Mason taking charge of Thursday's battling home draw against United.

Following the match against Erik ten Hag's team, Kane revealed talks were held with the under-fire Levy.

"The chairman asked for a meeting," Kane, the club's record scorer said. "Obviously I won't go into what was said but I think it was important (for him) to understand where the players' heads were at in that moment.

"Obviously coming off the back of that (Newcastle) result and it wasn't just that result, it had been building up since the international break when we conceded twice against Southampton.

"It was an honest conversation of where everyone is at and what we need to try to do to give us the best possible chance to finish the season with something."

Kane and Spurs were applauded at full-time on Thursday night but the atmosphere had threatened to turn explosive when Marcus Rashford added to Jadon Sancho's early opener to make it 2-0 to United at the break.

It left Mason, in his second caretaker spell in charge, with a big half-time team talk. He remained calm and saw Pedro Porro and Son Heung-min net in the second period to help Tottenham restore some pride.

Kane added: "It was quite