10 Years of Jamie Vardy

[Stadt]

We owe so much to Pearson. Lesser managers would never have signed him, even fewer would have the conviction and ability to convince Vardy to keep playing when he was at his lowest.

 

That Middlesbrough away game in 13/14 is one of our most important. If Vardy and Drinkwater didn't play as well as they did, we probably don't have a league title and FA cup to our name.

[An Away Move]

7 minutes ago, Stadt said:

We owe so much to Pearson. Lesser managers would never have signed him, even fewer would have the conviction and ability to convince Vardy to keep playing when he was at his lowest.

 

That Middlesbrough away game in 13/14 is one of our most important. If Vardy and Drinkwater didn't play as well as they did, we probably don't have a league title and FA cup to our name.

West Brom away the following  season too. 
 

To think I was frustrated with Pearson for persisting with a misfiring Vardy over our marque Rolls Royce new signing Beckford.
 

Pearson picked people of character and work ethic. It was frustrating at times (Gradel), but he new what he was doing/building.  

Edited 18 May 2022 by An Away Move

[EnderbyFox]

Here is the thread from 10 years ago today. What a throwback 

 

 

 

[StriderHiryu]

6 minutes ago, EnderbyFox said:

Here is the thread from 10 years ago today. What a throwback 

 

 

 

Great work! I was going to ask if anyone could dig that thread up!

 

You would never in a million years expect him to become the player he did. What a journey and what a player!

[StriderHiryu]

18 minutes ago, EnderbyFox said:

Here is the thread from 10 years ago today. What a throwback 

 

 

 

 

Ask @dannythefox for your long term stock exchange tips, Crypto currency buys and lottery numbers! 

 

 

Edited 18 May 2022 by StriderHiryu

[Fear Of The Fox]

I'm thinking now of all the bizarre buzz the media created behind Noble's (!!) retirement. When Vardy hangs his shoes there should be a 5 days bank holiday in Leicestershire, 3 days in whole Midlands and 1 day nationwide. 

[Fear Of The Fox]

21 minutes ago, EnderbyFox said:

Here is the thread from 10 years ago today. What a throwback 

 

 

 

Some of the posts there are pure gold and prove that many of our fans have a great football brain and knowledge. I would love to see some of these posts written underneath his statue when this LEGEND retires. 

[Nalis]

Can we have his testimonial against Sheffield United please?

[FoxesWalk]

 

 

edit/ I shamelessly stole this from either here or twitter, can’t remember, didn’t make it myself 

Edited 18 May 2022 by FoxesWalk

[Matt_Lcfc]

Those pictures document his rise so well. I still cannot believe he is still banging goals at 35, just incredible.

 

The only slight sad fact is that I’m only twenty next month and I’m almost 100% sure that I won’t ever like a player as much as him.

[Sampson]

 

Not going to quote and have to go through and delete all the photos one by one, so just copied and pasted this one from the OP.

 

Hadn’t seen that one of Vardy and Nugent before together holding the Championship trophy. That is a great photo, I wonder if they’re still best mates now. Certainly a ridiculously good strike force at Championship level.

[Stadt]

1 minute ago, Sampson said:

 

Not going to quote and have to go through and delete all the photos one by one, so just copied and pasted this one from the OP.

 

Hadn’t seen that one of Vardy and Nugent before together holding the Championship trophy. That is a great photo, I wonder if they’re still best mates now. Certainly a ridiculously good strike force at Championship level.

In hindsight,  it's really not a surprise we dominated the Championship in 13/14 when Schmeichel, Morgan, Drinkwater, Mahrez & Vardy were the spine of a title winning side side 2 years later.

 

14/15 makes a bit more sense too when Drinkwater, Vardy and Mahrez weren't regulars 

[AjcW]

3 hours ago, Golden Fox said:

I was thinking about this photo the other day, all I could think was 'I always knew i'd see this image' but never invisaged it being him going to court in a supportive capacity  

[TWUKO]

Absolute legend! Possibly our greatest ever player maybe along with kasper.

 

So many records for him and leicester along the way, plus a huge amount of loyalty!

 

Hopefully there will be a statue one day.

[Kilworthfox]

I can't really add that much more, as every LCFC fan knows what an absolute number 1 legend our Jamie is!

 

We could never have imagined that for £1 million he would turn out to be out to be; LCFC top premier league goal scorer, Championship Winner, Premiership Winner, F.A Cup Winner & Charity Shield Winner. We aren't done yet as well 

 

WHAT A LEGEND! 

 

Were is his statue? 

[FoxesWalk]

It’s Eleven! 
It’s heaven, for Jamie Vardy! 

Hold the back page,

Hold the front page, 

A Leicester player has SMASHED the record! 
 

Poetry. 

 

 

Edited 18 May 2022 by FoxesWalk

[Manini]

I really do have to pinch myself that we’ve seen a player of his calibre play for our club. He is one of the greatest strikers to ever Grace the premier league, let alone being our best ever. We’ve got our very own premier league, **** it, British footballing legend on our hands. Completely deserves to be regarded alongside players like Fowler, Shearer, Wright, Henry, Ageuro, Rooney. He is without doubt one of the best to ever do it in this country. 

[honeybradger]

9 minutes ago, FoxesWalk said:

It’s Eleven! 
It’s heaven, for Jamie Vardy! 

Hold the front page,

Hold the back page, 

A Leicester player has SMASHED the record! 
 

Poetry. 

 

 

Who would have even thought he would play at this level

Let alone score at this level on such an incredible basis.

 

The second part of the commentary is underrated imo, perfectly encapsulates the miracle that is vardy's career

[Izzy]

41 minutes ago, Matt_Lcfc said:

Those pictures document his rise so well. I still cannot believe he is still banging goals at 35, just incredible.

 

The only slight sad fact is that I’m only twenty next month and I’m almost 100% sure that I won’t ever like a player as much as him.

I said that about Gary Lineker when I was twelve 

[Sampson]

31 minutes ago, Stadt said:

In hindsight,  it's really not a surprise we dominated the Championship in 13/14 when Schmeichel, Morgan, Drinkwater, Mahrez & Vardy were the spine of a title winning side side 2 years later.

 

14/15 makes a bit more sense too when Drinkwater, Vardy and Mahrez weren't regulars 

Schmeichel

 

De Laet - Morgan - Wasilewski - Konchesky

 

Knockaert/Mahrez - Drinkwater - James/King - Dyer

 

Nugent - Vardy

 

Got to be a strong nomination for the greatest Second tier side ever.

Edited 18 May 2022 by Sampson

[Dames]

49 minutes ago, Matt_Lcfc said:

Those pictures document his rise so well. I still cannot believe he is still banging goals at 35, just incredible.

 

The only slight sad fact is that I’m only twenty next month and I’m almost 100% sure that I won’t ever like a player as much as him.

I thought the same about Muzzy Izzet and now he’s not even in my top 3. 

[FoxinNotts]

Statue Please

[dannythefox]

2 hours ago, StriderHiryu said:

 

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Who actually reads these 😂 but yeh since then I’ve got 34 bitcoins and won the lottery. Stocks not doing very well at the minute.

[ealingfox]

2 hours ago, EnderbyFox said:

Here is the thread from 10 years ago today. What a throwback 

 

 

 

 

To think 3 of the 5 examples that were given of players that 'came good' after being signed from non-league were Michael Kightly, Craig Mackail-Smith and Steve Morison

 

Compare them to JV! Unreal.

[Matt_Lcfc]

1 hour ago, Izzy said:

I said that about Gary Lineker when I was twelve 

 

1 hour ago, Dames said:

I thought the same about Muzzy Izzet and now he’s not even in my top 3. 

These are both fair points but I think Vardy will prove to be different. This is a player who has won the Championship, the Premier League and the FA Cup. Never mind the multiple individual records he has broken. He is different to the two above as whilst both were good players in their own right, what they did at Leicester won’t go down in general football history. Vardy will go down as one of the PL greats. 
 

But, if we do have a player who I end up liking more than Vardy then we are certainly going places.

Edited 18 May 2022 by Matt_Lcfc