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Jamie Vardy Appreciation

By GeorgeTheFox, in Leicester City Forum

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jammie82uk

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3 hours ago, Staffs Fox said:

For someone to be in the 100 premier league club whilst playing non-league football until they’re 25 is crazy! it’s even crazier when it was a further two years until he played premier league football. He’ll 100% do it

What’s a bit crazy as well there is only 28 players in that 100 club 

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StanSP

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12 hours ago, davieG said:

Jamie Vardy Deserves To Be Recognised As A Premier League Great Not Just A Cult Hero
SIMON LILLICRAP  -  07:31, 28 Apr 2019


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Vardy is a hotshot against the top six
Jamie Vardy will take to the field against Arsenal on Sunday knowing full well he is likely to find the net, given his outstanding record against the big Premier League clubs. He has scored more Premier League goals than Eden Hazard, Harry Kane and Wayne Rooney against the top six sides and every season he seems to step up to the plate.

Vardy has been seen as a bit of a cult hero in recent years, due to his attitude on and off the pitch. Who can forget his iconic ‘Chat sh*t get banged’ tweet which turned into a chant from the Leicester faithful along with his love for a blue WKD. His chavvy demeanor makes him a loveable rogue but he is so much more than just a cult hero, he should go down as a Premier League great.

This season, in what many would consider to have been a quiet season for the Englishman, no player has had more goal involvements than him outside the top six clubs. He has hit sixteen goals and bagged four assists this season and now looks to be thriving under new boss Brendan Rodgers with four goals in his last four games.

The remarkable thing about Jamie Vardy is that he didn’t play his first Premier League game until he was 26. Instead, he battled his way around the lower leagues with Stocksbridge Park Steels, Halifax and Fleetwood before making the move to Leicester in the Championship. Promotion followed and Vardy’s goal helped keep them in the league when they looked dead and buried at Christmas.

Then we get to the main event. The greatest season the Premier League has ever seen and the main reason why Vardy should go down as a great. He won the Premier League title with Leicester City. It’s been three years and I still can’t believe it. That season he scored 24 league goals, just missing out on the Golden Boot to fellow Englishman Harry Kane, however, he did break Ruud van Nistelrooy’s record for scoring in consecutive Premier League games.

The record was ten in a row and Vardy matched that against Newcastle, but then went on to break the record in typical fashion against Manchester United of all clubs. His goals that season were vital, along with the stamina of Kante and wizardry of Mahrez, in Leicester doing the unthinkable and beating the big guns to the Premier League title.

Vardy, in his short time in the top division, playing for a side that has bounced around from bottom to top, has scored more Premier League goals than household names such as Eric Cantona, Luis Suarez and Gianfranco Zola. He is in many ways, an old school forward, making darting runs in behind and always lurking around in the box and that is one of the reasons why he has got so many goals.

Vardy at 33, will hang up his boots in a few years but even he could not have dreamt of what he would achieve in the game just a decade ago. A Premier League winner, an England international and one of the best goalscorers in the top flight - Vardy has become far more than a cult hero.

 

https://www.thesportsman.com/articles/jamie-vardy-deserves-to-be-recognised-as-a-premier-league-great-not-just-a-cult-hero

 

Simon Lillicrap is a superb name. 

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StriderHiryu

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4 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Simon Lillicrap is a superb name. 

Decent article from the crapster to give credit where it's due!

 

It's funny though, I am kind of glad that everyone else in the league does not rate Vardy because it means we get to keep him. I genuinely believe that had Atletico Madrid sold Griezeman to Barcelona last summer, they would have signed him as Simeone is a big fan and knows how good he is. They went onto sign Costa and Moratta but these are different players to Griezeman. Don't forget that Arsene Wenger of all people also tried to sign him, which shows that he has the technical ability to play for a top team. Really he's only with us because he's relatively old and because he's not a physical lump like a traditional forward who plays up top by themselves should be. In some ways he reminds be a bit of LeTissier, not because they play the same, but because both were club legends yet massively underrated by other teams. How or why LeTiss did not end up at Manchester United, Liverpool or Arsenal for example is beyond me and the same could be said for Vardy. Te Southampton fans obviously worship LeTiss as we do with Vardy.

 

Unless he gets a severe injury, Vardy will surely make it to 100 Premier League goals and that will surely put him in the Premier league legends category, as less than 30 players have currently achieved that.

 

If you look at the impact that players like Moratta, Higuain and Lukaku have had compared to Vardy, it's incredible just how good he is for what we paid for him. Even in our own ranks we signed Ulloa (13m), Okazaki (8.5m), Kramaric (11m), Slimani (30m) and Ihenacho (24m) and yet none are anywhere near him. Well these days I would rate Kramaric but sadly he came to us when he as too young. Still it's truly incredible what he has become, even more so when you think he was pretty lackluster for the first few seasons with us. Just proves you should never give up in any walk of life!

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