Southgate suggested he was preparing to omit Kane from the starting lineup against Ivory Coast on Tuesday night and following that match England must play two of their four Nations League ties in June behind closed doors.

The games against Hungary in Budapest and Italy at Wembley will have no fans present following sanctions from Uefa. Hungary have been punished for the behaviour of their supporters during Euro 2020 while England’s ban is because of disorder that marred the final against Italy.

“I don’t think Harry will worry where he is playing in terms of the opportunity to break the record,” Southgate said. “But that would be hugely unfortunate [if it was to be in an empty stadium].

“Frankly we have seen and had enough of games behind closed doors but for both countries it is a punishment because our fans and their fans weren’t able to control themselves. That’s an embarrassment for us but it is the situation we have got. It would be particularly sad if that was the game where Harry broke the record.”

Southgate said he had been “looking at two possible teams for these games” against Switzerland and Ivory Coast and he pushed back when asked if he faced a tough decision over whether to keep Kane in the starting XI on Tuesday.

“No, that’s not a tough decision,” Southgate said. “We want to keep all of the squad involved. All of the players are also in a part of the season where they’re coming in off a heavy load of games and are going back into important games, so this is one of those occasions when it works for us and the clubs when it comes to sharing the load.

“We need to find out about players and we still can bring players from the bench. We want to keep going on a positive run of results as well.”

The move is a major coup for MLS and Toronto, who finished second-bottom of the MLS Eastern Conference last term, with six wins from 34 matches. The forward's contract at Napoli expires at the end of the season and he will move to Canada as a free agent, and sources have told ESPN that he will earn around $15 million a season.

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"This is a historic and exciting day for our club," Toronto FC president Bill Manning said.

"Lorenzo is a world-class attacking player in the prime of his career. He was a European champion with Italy and has performed on the biggest stages during his club career with Napoli. Lorenzo has the talent to change games. He plays the game with joy and passion, and our fans and supporters are going to love watching him as a member of our team."

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"We are all looking forward to having Lorenzo join us this summer," Toronto FC head coach and sporting director Bob Bradley said.

"His ability to create chances for himself and his teammates is special. Having watched him for many years, I also know he's also a player who works for the team. Lorenzo is the kind of player you come to watch, because there's always a chance he'll do something unforgettable."

Insigne has made over 400 appearances since graduating from Napoli's academy and making his senior debut in 2010. After early loan moves to Cavese, Foggia and Pescara, the forward became a staple in Napoli for the past decade, going on to win the Italian Cup twice, in 2014 and 2020.

Insigne, 30, also has enjoyed a successful international career for Italy, scoring 10 goals in 53 caps, and was a crucial part of the country's Euro 2020 title-winning side last summer.

Manning added: "I think he's going to fit very well with who we want to be as a club. We want to be a champion and we know with him being the captain at Napoli, what he brings to the table for us. He will be the anchor for this team over the next four seasons on how we're going to rebuild ourselves into a champion.

"I think within the league, maybe we start to see more players who are in the prime or their careers, world class players playing at the highest level who now will come to Major League Soccer and I think that was the next step for our league."

He will join defender Shane O'Neill at Toronto. O'Neill moved to the club on a free transfer last month.

　　Around the world people love. They sing for love, they dance for love, they compose poems and stories about love. They pine for love, they live for love, they kill for love, and they die for love. As Walt Whitman once said, he said, “Oh, I would stake all for you.”

　　But love isn’t always a happy experience. In one study of college students, they asked a lot of questions about love, but the two that stood out to me the most were, “Have you ever been rejected by somebody who you really loved?” And the second question was, “Have you ever dumped somebody who really loved you?” And almost 95% of both men and women said yes to both. Almost nobody gets out of love alive.

　　Romantic love is one of the most powerful sensations on Earth. So, several years ago, I decided to look into the brain and study this madness. We found activity in a tiny little factory near the base of the brain called the ventral tegmental area. In fact, the same brain region where we found activity becomes active also when you feel the rush of cocaine. But romantic love is much more than a cocaine high—at least you come down from cocaine. Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can’t stop thinking about another human being.

　　Wild is love. And the obsession can get worse when you’ve been rejected. That brain system, the reward system for wanting, for motivation, for craving, for focus, becomes more active when you can’t get what you want. In this case, life’s greatest prize: an appropriate mating partner.

　　So, what have I learned from this experiment that I would like to tell the world? Foremost, I have come to think that romantic love is a drive, a basic mating drive. I’ve also come to believe that romantic love is anaddiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it’s going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it’s going poorly.

　　I would also like to tell the world that animals love. There’s not an animal on this planet that will copulatewith anything that comes along. Too old, too young, too scruffy, too stupid, and they won’t do it. In fact, I think animal attraction can be instant—you can see an elephant instantly go for another elephant. And I think that this is really the origins of what you and I call, “love at first sight.”

　　Our newest experiment has been hatched by my colleague, Art Aron, putting people who are reporting that they are still in love, in a long-term relationship, into the functional MRI. We’ve put five people in so far, and indeed, we found exactly the same thing. They’re not lying. They basically…The brain areas associated with intense romantic love, still become active, 25 years later.

　　There are still many questions to be answered and asked about romantic love. The question that I’m working on right this minute, and I’m only going to say it for a second and then end, is why do you fall in love with one person, rather than another? There will always be magic to love, but I think we’re going to end up in the next few years to understand all kinds of brain mechanisms that pull us to one person rather than another.

　　So, I will close with this: love is in us. It’s deeply embedded in the brain. Our challenge is to understand each other. Thank you.

Don"t refuse to listen.

Don"t bottle things up.

Don"t expect life to be fair.

Don"t stick your head in the sand.

Don"t beat your head against a brick wall.

Don"t think the grass is greener

on the other side.