I felt sorry for England team-mates who toiled while I spent Christmas sipping cocktails on a beach, says Harry Kane

HARRY KANE has urged Premier League chiefs to bring backmost a ­winter interruption to boost England’s dreams of winning trophies.

The Three Lions skipper insists players request clip disconnected during the ­season to debar burnout and beryllium astatine their champion for summertime World Cup  and Euros tournaments.

Bayern Munich striker Kane admits helium “felt sorry” for Prem stars who had to play implicit Christmas past twelvemonth — portion helium sipped cocktails connected a beach.

Ahead of Sunday’s Wembley Nations League clash against the Republic of Ireland, Kane declared: “If we tin get immoderate benignant of wintertime interruption for the Premier League boys it would person a large impact.

“We had it for astir 2 years successful the Prem and it went down good with players.

“It’s a shame they don’t get that interruption now. For a batch of the players it was important, adjacent for a week to get distant and recharge truthful they could decorativeness their play and spell into large tournaments.

"It’s going to beryllium a hard 1 to change. But it’s a speech that needs to beryllium had.”

Kane enjoyed  a ten-day household vacation during Bayern’s three-week wintertime interruption past play but would person played 5 games successful that play astatine erstwhile nine Tottenham.

He volition get akin clip disconnected adjacent month, portion Prem stars play 4 times.

Kane’s plea comes aft Manchester City’s Ballon d’Or victor Rodri threatened onslaught action implicit football’s “crazy” calendar — earlier an ACL wounded ended his season.

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Players’ unions person besides launched ineligible enactment against Fifa implicit adjacent summer’s £600million 32-team Club World Cup successful America which volition impact City, Chelsea and Bayern.

The Prem’s apical stars look playing up to 85 GAMES for nine and state this play but the PFA privation a 60-match limit.

Kane, 31, benefited from Germany’s wintertime interruption past season, ending up with 44 goals successful 45 appearances successful his debut run for Bayern.

He  added: “In Germany, I get that wintertime interruption truthful I get a bully artifact disconnected successful a pugnacious period.

“I did consciousness atrocious for immoderate of the guys erstwhile I was connected the formation past twelvemonth watching them play connected Boxing Day and the 29th — and I americium determination with my cocktail.

“It truly helped maine past twelvemonth to recover.

“Being successful Germany gives you that luxury. I’ll person that adjacent twelvemonth arsenic well.”

England’s 68-goal grounds scorer wins his 103rd headdress contiguous aft interim brag Lee Carsley dropped him to the seat successful favour of Ollie Watkins for Thursday’s 3-0 Nations League triumph successful Greece.

Asked if that was a shock, Kane admitted: “A small bit. It was like, ‘OK’, getting my caput astir it.

“But I wasn’t down astir it, I wasn’t worried.

“Lee wanted to springiness Ollie the acquisition successful a pugnacious distant crippled we had to triumph and I understood his decision.”