He signed off in a manner only he could. Two days after Jamie Vardy called Leicester’s season a “miserable, embarrassing s--- show” came the confirmation that it would be his last at the club. But the low of a second relegation from the Premier League in three years does not come close to scratching the unbelievable, record-breaking highs of Vardy’s 13 years in the east Midlands. “We did the impossible,” Vardy reflected.
With Leicester, Vardy became a champion and a Premier League legend. He may be the most unlikely, too: the £1m signing from non-league Fleetwood Town who arrived as a journeyman in 2012 and fired the 5000-1 outsiders tipped for relegation to the top-flight title. The Jamie Vardy movie has yet to be made by Hollywood, but the script writes itself.
