At 20 years old, Jamie Vardy was playing eighth tier football with an ankle tag on. And at 24, he was still working at a prosthetic limbs factory.

Five years later he was a Premier League champion.

From skittles vodka every night to the Wagatha Christie saga, this is the far-fetched fairytale of a Premier League legend…

Links from the pod:

Play off semi-final against Watford 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJYtDPcd-fU 

Nigel Pearson strangling James McArthur: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=342055126509288

Pearson calling journalist an ostrich: https://youtu.be/4xfdk3MliFc?si=auo9JQRzfbehtxJm&t=16 

Vardy’s daughter playing rock, paper, scissors: https://youtu.be/OP7vlyxxBtM?si=zQLn0Tudt644Tz_q&t=22 

Vardy courtroom sketch: https://i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk/incoming/article26992221.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/1_FS-k5s3XsAEBRCX.jpg

Rooney courtroom sketch: https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/05/18/14/57878627-10828547-Coleen_Rooney_sits_next_to_her_husband_Wayne_Rooney_on_May_12_in-a-1_1652880025532.jpg

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