In the end, God had the final word.

[FC Yahoo: Jack Wilshere again the center of smoking controversy after photo surfaces]

The North London Derby had been won. Arsenal had been vanquished 2-1 by Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane and young Harry Kane had scored twice more. The 21-year-old with the prematurely receding hairline and slicked back hair – looking like an extra stepping straight out of a Guy Ritchie British gangster flick – took a lap of honor.

[Premier League: Scores and Schedule | Current Standings]

He'd swept home a close-range finish in the 56th minute, sneaking behind the pack of defenders to stick in a headed-on ball to undo Mesut Ozil's 11th-minute go-ahead goal. And he'd headed a splendid winner into the top corner near the penalty spot in the 86th minute. Spurs had dominated Arsenal and Kane had dominated them all.

The unlikelihood of all that beggars belief. Kane, for starters, is a youth academy product, born and raised just a few miles from the Lane, playing for a club that buys a raft of players every transfer window, and when they flop, buys a bunch more. Roberto Soldado was supposed to be the striker on this team. He was expensive. Failing that, Emmanuel Adebayor and his steep salary would be.

When Gareth Bale left for Real Madrid two summers ago, the many millions he yielded were invested in talented young players. Many of them were playmakers. Kane is English, at a time when English players aren't even in vogue in their own English Premier League. Yet Kane has managed not only to break into the starting lineup but also carve out a role as a kind of playmaker-striker when the blueprint for this team called for the man up front to be a poacher and nothing more. He has bucked every expectation, in the face of tall odds.

In the first week of February, Kane has a dozen league goals. A dozen. That's more league goals than any Spurs player scored in all of last year. His 22 goals in all competitions is more than any other Premier League player has this season.

A midseason lap of honor is a strange and unusual thing to do. But then everything that's happened to Kane this season is strange and unusual.

So he deserved his lap.

Leander Schaerlaeckens is a soccer columnist for Yahoo Sports. Follow him on Twitter @LeanderAlphabet.