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Jamie Vardy Appreciation

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stevostadium

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Man is an absolute machine and dreading the day he not around anymore.

Rumours are it is his last season and will be heading to Saudi.

Netflix doing documentary on him for this season so it will probably be his last unfortunately.

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Torquay Gunner

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1 hour ago, stevostadium said:

Man is an absolute machine and dreading the day he not around anymore.

Rumours are it is his last season and will be heading to Saudi.

Netflix doing documentary on him for this season so it will probably be his last unfortunately.

I admire him as a player, so I really hope he doesn't go to Saudi. 

Tommy G

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Be very easy for the club to rename one of the blocks JV9 from next season, I'm sure no-one is bothered by the current referencing system. Such an award isn't reflective of his achievements but it's a start.

Trav Le Bleu

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8 hours ago, Tommy G said:

Be very easy for the club to rename one of the blocks JV9 from next season, I'm sure no-one is bothered by the current referencing system. Such an award isn't reflective of his achievements but it's a start.

Leicester Fosse FC→Leicester City FC →JV9 FC

 

Make it happen.

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Unabomber

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1 hour ago, Wymsey said:

Keep thinking that there'll be some kind of alcohol named after him..

How come you keep thinking about this? 

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Trav Le Bleu

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2 hours ago, Wymsey said:

Keep thinking that there'll be some kind of alcohol named after him..

Bacvardi rum.

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davieG

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https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/leicester-jamie-vardy-premier-league-fascinating-footballer-3426329?ITO=newsnow

 

I went to Leicester to watch the Premier League's most fascinating footballer
Vardy is the oldest starting striker in Europe's top five leagues and he's still causing chaos. His is the most remarkable story imaginable


Daniel Storey
Chief Football Writer
December 12, 2024 6:00 am (Updated 6:02 am)
 

It is several minutes before Leicester City are due to play Brighton in the Premier League and the two teams are in the tunnel.

As the players warmed up, before heading back inside, two mascot girls kicked a ball to each other at the side of the pitch. If they were even born when Leicester won the Premier League, they cannot remember it. But they have been told. Both have “Vardy 9” on the back of their shirts.

Those two girls are now stood either side of Jamie Vardy, waiting for him to lead them out. They both look up at him with wide-eyed awe, as do Mads Hermansen’s two mascots who have bunched forward to get a better view. No offence to Leicester’s goalkeeper, but he is not who they are here to see. They both have Vardy shirts on too.

I’m in a similar situation of sorts, here to write about the most fascinating career in the last 20 years of the Premier League and here now because, against most expectations, that career is blooming again.


We could just say that a bloke was getting paid £30 a game and he won the Premier League six years later and that would do. But there’s a lot more to say.

Leicester City are in an odd position in 2024, a seemingly endless struggle with their own identity.

That is the burden for enjoying arguably the most extraordinary, unexpected period of success in the history of the game, given the supposed glass ceilings they punched through.

Between 2015 and 2021, Leicester played in six domestic cup quarter-finals, won their first ever FA Cup and completed the most unexpected title victory this sport had ever seen.

Nobody is stupid enough to believe any subsequent curse to overshadow such blessing, but it does create an odd psychological conundrum: how do you process magic and how can anything feel so hyper-real thereafter?

There was horrendous tragedy, frustrating incompetence and the inevitable ageing of players; all of it left Leicester supporters unsure of what to expect because they hadn’t expected any of it in the first place.

Seasons past and the protagonists of the miracle faded away. Some, like Riyad Mahrez and N’Golo Kante, grabbed their chance at superclub riches and further success. Others stayed but simply grew old for their environment – Kasper Schmeichel, Wes Morgan, Marc Albrighton.

Only one of that 30-man first-team squad is left, but his time has not passed. He’s the Leicester City captain and he’s currently standing in the tunnel of the King Power well aware that the hopes of a city, and four kids surrounding him, rests squarely on his shoulders.


The good news: Vardy has always been able to treat time as a fluid concept.

You’d have been forgiven – and I’m asking for it too here – for thinking that Vardy’s high-level career, for all its wonder, had finally slowed to a close. During his last Premier League season, Vardy scored three goals and almost half of his league appearances were as a substitute.

In the Championship in 2023-24, Enzo Maresca largely stuck to that strategy. There was a knee injury that caused a ten-game absence, but Vardy started in only two Championship wins between 28 October and 20 April. The goals still came, but Vardy was being moved aside. Another season in the Premier League seemed a bridge too far.

So obviously Vardy is now the third top English goalscorer in the Premier League, with six goals and three assists in 14 matches. And so obviously Vardy has started all 14 of those matches and played more minutes than any other Leicester attacking player.

And obviously his current manager Ruud van Nistelrooy), manager just gone (Steve Cooper) and manager last season at Leicester (Maresca) are waxing lyrical about his impact upon this team.

The longevity is more than faintly ridiculous. Vardy will turn 38 next month and only four older strikers in Premier League history have scored goals.

Leicester City 2-2 Brighton (Sunday 8 December)
Game no.: 45/92
Miles: 31
Cumulative miles: 7,205
Total goals seen: 127
The one thing I’ll remember in May: The inevitability of Jamie Vardy. The game until his miraculous late interventions
Teddy Sheringham, Dean Windass, Mark Hughes and Mick Harford belong to a different generation and none were guaranteed starters for their clubs at the time. No older forward has started a match in Europe’s top five leagues this season.

This summer, England supporters fretted whether it may soon be time to look for Harry Kane’s replacement – Kane is seven years younger than Vardy.

Vardy is older than world-class strikers now in retirement leagues (Karim Benzema and Luis Suarez) and England internationals who seem like yesterday’s players (Aaron Lennon, Joe Hart, Micah Richards). Thirty-four players have scored 100 goals in Premier League history. Vardy has scored 108 since turning 30.

Vardy’s own explanation for this is simple: he started late and so can carry on longer. He’s said as much repeatedly when stating his intention to keep going into his 40s. As far as Vardy goes, that’s the argument won. Once he’s decided something is happening, the strength of will means it usually does.

But surely the opposite is more often true? It wasn’t as if Vardy was resting up until reaching the Premier League. He was playing as many games and working full-time. He wasn’t getting expert medical advice, likely wasn’t managing his recovery as elite professionals do and injury management is far less available.

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StanSP

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26 minutes ago, davieG said:

Thirty-four players have scored 100 goals in Premier League history. Vardy has scored 108 since turning 30.

Hard to get your head around this bit. 

 

Insane. 

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Pita

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39 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Hard to get your head around this bit. 

 

Insane. 

We will never see the likes of Vardy again let’s enjoy while we can 🦊🦊🦊

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TheGoldenGod

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3 minutes ago, WestLothianFox said:

The very least the club should do is name a stand after him when he does retire

Stand fine but a statue is a genuine must. If you can't give a statue to your greatest ever player then there's zero point in statues. Get the guy that did Vichai's as well!

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Bourbon Fox

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On 10/12/2024 at 09:06, stevostadium said:

Man is an absolute machine and dreading the day he not around anymore.

Rumours are it is his last season and will be heading to Saudi.

Netflix doing documentary on him for this season so it will probably be his last unfortunately.

He's not far off the top 10 PL goalscorers list.

 

Another season and he might make it......

 

Which is actually mad considering he didnt start until he was 27

foxfanazer

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He's virtually every Leicester fans greatest ever player in the clubs history but what's the likelihood of him being surpassed in our lifetime? I'm 35 and can't imagine witnessing somebody do more for us

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21 minutes ago, foxfanazer said:

He's virtually every Leicester fans greatest ever player in the clubs history but what's the likelihood of him being surpassed in our lifetime? I'm 35 and can't imagine witnessing somebody do more for us

Difficult to imagine. Even we did find an incredible player the likelihood of him staying more than a couple of seasons is low. Maybe an academy player can come through but again the modern footballer would leave given the opportunity. 

 

 

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OadbyBlue

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26 minutes ago, foxfanazer said:

He's virtually every Leicester fans greatest ever player in the clubs history but what's the likelihood of him being surpassed in our lifetime? I'm 35 and can't imagine witnessing somebody do more for us

I can’t see it. A footballer as good for us over as long a period is rare enough, but this combined with Vardy’s personality and iconic nature in both Leicester and the wider football world makes it very unlikely.

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On 12/12/2024 at 13:03, WestLothianFox said:

The very least the club should do is name a stand after him when he does retire

Personally, I think it would be more appropriate if Jamie Vardy re-named himself after the stadium.

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VLC86

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2 hours ago, foxfanazer said:

He's virtually every Leicester fans greatest ever player in the clubs history but what's the likelihood of him being surpassed in our lifetime? I'm 35 and can't imagine witnessing somebody do more for us

If anyone comes close we are in for another ridiculously mental ride. It’s never going to happen and he will be spoken about for centuries to come.

 

Every time you see him step on the pitch you are extremely lucky.

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