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-Hey, Jamie.
-Hey. You okay?

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Fucking hell.

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I need a fucking drink.

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-All right, lad?
-So, um, I'm curious.

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In one word, what do you think
comes to mind for most people

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when they hear the name Jamie Vardy?

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Wow.

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One word.

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One word?

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That's a tough one.

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Speed.

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Aggression.

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Goals.

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Loyal.

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-Friend.
-Good friend.

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Friend.

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Legend.

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Incredible.

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One word?

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Probably think "twat."

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It's Vardy!

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Terrific from Vardy.

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People see a wind-up merchant

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teasing the opposition fans,

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but there's much more to him
than all of that.

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He's the biggest underdog story
of all time.

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For a boy who came
from non-league football,

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it is the ultimate footballing fairy tale,
isn't it?

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To make that jump to the Premier League
is Everest without oxygen.

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That's when it really got real.

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There was a load of red flags.

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Police record, drinking,
partying, fighting.

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His personality
has a self-destruct button.

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Jamie Vardy has been fined.

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Shit. Like, what have I done here?

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You are gonna screw everything up
that you've worked so bloody hard for.

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Hello.

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And that's when everything changed.
Everything.

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Vardy volley. Oh, what a goal!

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Something special is happening here.
We could achieve the impossible.

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We can win the league.

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Anything can happen.
Anything can happen in football.

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Jamie Vardy has made history!

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From non-league prince
to Premier League king!

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It's Jamie Vardy!

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Okay, so where did this all
start for you, Jamie?

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Oh, can I ju--
Can I just get a beer first?

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Yeah, definitely. Uh, where are they?

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-Cupboard just behind you. The little one.
-Yeah.

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Should be Modelos at the bottom.

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Yeah.

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-Right, this is where it gets weird.
-Yeah.

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And can you get my big wooden cock out
in my drawer that the lady's leaning on?

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Oh, yes, found it.

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There you go.

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Cheers. Thank you.

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Right, ready.

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Okay, so where does your story begin?

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-As in football or just life?
-Life.

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They're definitely intertwined.

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So it started in Sheffield,
just outside of Hillsborough.

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I was probably 19, 20 years old,
living with my parents.

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Family life was fine.
I was working in the factory.

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Making crutches, Zimmer frames,
anything to help people who couldn't walk.

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It was really hard work. It was long days
and an absolute killer on my back.

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Definitely wasn't my dream as a kid,

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but I just thought
that was the way my life was going.

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That's the path I was on.

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So when you were a little kid,

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what is it that you wanted to be?

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My dream as a little kid
was to play for Sheffield Wednesday.

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Every week,
I'd go to the Sheffield Wednesday matches

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and then see David Hirst.

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And Hirst. It's a great goal.

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He was a striker.

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To play the one-two
with Waddle. Hirst through! Hirst scores!

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And seeing him score,

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then all the fans
were up jumping and celebrating.

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Remembering what that feeling was like.
It was, I wanna emulate what he's done.

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I wanna be a striker.

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So when I was ten,

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I got asked to sign
for Sheffield Wednesday's youth academy,

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which is virtually the next step

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to make the path
and become a professional footballer.

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It's a lot of work,
a lot of sacrifice and dedication.

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But signing for the academy
was everything.

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At school, any breaks we had, football.

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Lunch break, football.

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Three times a week. After that, training.

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I really, really wanted it.

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I'd got all the way up to the under-16s.

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I was quite small for my age.
Not had a little growth spurt yet.

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But at that point, when you get that far,

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it's like, "Oh, yeah, I'm fine.
I'm gonna play football when I'm older."

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But they said no.

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"You're not big enough
to make it as a professional."

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"I know you dreamed of doing this,
but no, you're not good enough."

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It was hard to take.

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After that, pro-football wasn't even
crossing my mind if I'm honest.

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At 20 years old, if you've not made it
to the Premier League by that age,

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chances are you're not gonna make it.

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But I was still playing part-time football
for a team called Stocksbridge.

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It was the eighth tier.

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The eighth tier. It's crazy, innit?

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It's a long way to the top.
No chance that was gonna happen.

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Stocksbridge is a non-league
South Yorkshire club.

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It's called non-league because
it's not actually a professional league.

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Water's been turned off or turned cold,
and lights are dimming,

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and pitches are heavy.

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There's only 100 to 200 fans turning up,

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but it was just mates, football,

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and let's have a giggle.

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I signed for the first team
and ended up on a contract

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at 120 quid a week, I think it was.

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I remember the first time
he came training, we did a 12-minute run.

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I can't remember how many times
he passed me.

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He were just like a racing snake.

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He were passing me and going,
"Keep going, Brett."

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"Keep going. You're doing well."

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Needs to play it left. Brings it inside.

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Oh. Oh, what a good goal.
What a good goal.

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He brought it from his own half.
Jamie Vardy…

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What Jamie had was everything.
Pace, power, ability, tenacity, bravery.

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My God, he made up for what he lacked
in physicality, body-wise,

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with his aggression.

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I was always one of the smaller ones.

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Against fully-grown blokes, who you think
they're gonna kick the shit out of you,

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you've gotta keep getting back up,

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letting them know
that nothing's gonna faze you

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and that you can also give it back.

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He were just such
a talisman for us every single week.

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We were telling him all the time,
"You've got something. You can make it."

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But he were just so blasé about it all.

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"Yeah, all right, yeah.
Yeah, thanks for that, Brett."

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"We're having a beer."

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I don't quite think he grasped
the fact that he'd got a special talent

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that needed to be thought about
and progressed upon.

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I was never, ever thinking something
more serious with football could happen.

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An average week for me
was work eight till five,

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then straight from work to training.

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Then home, bed, ready to go to work again.

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And drinking sessions with your mates
were normally Saturday, Sunday.

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So literally,
after the game on a Saturday,

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I'd go straight to the pub
with The Inbetweeners.

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Everyone had the same interests.

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We liked to drink, we liked football.

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-Yeah. And Wednesdays.
-We liked Wednesdays.

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-So everyone had a common interest--
-What about girls?

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Yeah, we liked girls.

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Why are you called The Inbetweeners?

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-From the program.
-From the program The Inbetweeners.

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-Oh, friend. Oh, new friend.
-Oh, new friend.

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-Friend.
-Oh, friend.

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Look at us. We're a set of oddballs.

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Where did the name Sick Note come from?

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Who the fuck have you been talking to?
Uh, yeah, Sick Note.

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No, I was very, uh…
I was very good at having Mondays off.

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Very, very good.

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At that point in my life,
there was no stability whatsoever,

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and it got me in a world of trouble.

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One night, I was out with one of my mates.

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Someone started taking the piss out of him
for… for wearing a hearing aid.

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So we started having a scuffle with him,

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and, then before you know it,
in the back of a cop car.

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Got charged with assault.

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The judge gave me six months
on an ankle tag.

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So basically, I had to be
in the house from 6:00 p.m.

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and weren't allowed to leave till 6:00 a.m

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And he couldn't play midweek games.

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He'd have to come off early
on Saturday games

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to make sure he got home in time.

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That then hindered scouts coming
to this football club to watch him,

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to progress him to that next level.

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At some point, I pinned him up
in the changing room and said,

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"You need to grow up
and realize what talent you've got."

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It was still all about enjoyment,
the football.

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Still wasn't thinking
anything could happen from it.

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But it was more,
I've got myself in this shit.

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I've let people down.
I've let all my teammates down.

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It really isn't a nice feeling to have.

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Mindset moving forward from that was…
don't be a dick and do it again.

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I think if I didn't have football,
I'd have probably

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carried on going down that route
of getting in trouble,

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which leads to a place you don't wanna be.

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Prison.

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We got to play-offs
in his first season together.

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The second season,
we were just sort of unbeatable,

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and we won the Sheffield Senior Cup
at Hillsborough

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and won promotion together.

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Jamie played a massive part in that.

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I'd got to a stage
where, yes, I was enjoying myself,

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but I just-- I needed something new.

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That's when
I eventually signed for Halifax.

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Sad time for us when we lost him.

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But I think it came at the right time
for him to take that opportunity.

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They were a bigger club.

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The stadium was… It was a stadium.

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It was definitely a step up.

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It was never on me mind
about going higher or anything like that.

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The normal path to the Premier League

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would be through an academy.

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So to make that jump from non-league
to the top of the pyramid

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is an unthinkable mountain.

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Everest without oxygen.

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But we knew he could do it.

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I'd already been told two years before
that football weren't for me,

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so it was more of the same,
just enjoy myself.

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-How pleasing was that?
-Yeah, very pleasing.

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We were told before the game
they were scoring a lot of goals.

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They weren't leaking a lot, so to keep
a clean sheet and score six,

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very impressive.

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Did you…

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I was based in Sheffield still,
still living with my parents.

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Working at the factory.

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So you've done your full-time shift
in the day.

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Jump in the car, one hour to Halifax,
train, and drive home,

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getting ready to start another shift
the next morning.

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It takes it out of you, but I was able
to play a sport that I loved

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and score goals.

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I first heard about Jamie from a player.

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He was playing for Halifax Town
at the time.

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He said, "Look, we've just signed
this player, uh, called Jamie Vardy."

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"He's an absolute lunatic, but we're gonna
win the league because of this boy."

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And I remember going, "Halifax, what--
What division are they in?"

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And I'm-- I'm looking down the leagues,
and they're in the seventh tier.

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I'm thinking,
"There can't be particularly good players

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in the seventh tier of English football."

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Football was my life.
I wanted to be a football agent.

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But I was struggling to even get a meeting
with a player, let alone sign one.

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I thought, "I'm gonna get in my car
and have a look

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at this lunatic called Jamie Vardy."

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Go on, Jamie.

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Seeing this player
with just electrifying pace,

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and then you saw the magic.

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And the magic is, is when the ball's
played in behind, he was in.

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And when he's in, he didn't miss.

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What a goal by Jamie Vardy! Who else?

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I'm looking, like,
"Has anybody else seen this?"

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I had no doubt in my mind
this kid had a real chance.

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The big problem then
was trying to track him down.

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He never answered his phone.

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I'm going,
"How can I not get hold of a player

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that's playing in the seventh tier
of English football?"

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Probably in the pub. Know what I mean?
That's probably where he was.

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Yep.

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Did eventually get him,
and he eventually did take a meeting.

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Just got out of bed
when the doorbell was going.

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I remember knocking on the door
and I'm wearing a suit,

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you know,
'cause I wanna make a good impression.

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Yeah, he come to the door
and he's just wearing a pair of shorts.

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Yeah, just answered the door
in me underwear.

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Just looking at me, this no-hair skinhead
going, "What do you want?"

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I said, "Well, you know, I'm--
It's John. I've come to see you."

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"Oh yeah, yeah. Come in."

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I remember talking to him and saying,
"Look, I think you're incredibly talented,

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and if you can focus on football
and, you know, take it seriously,

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you can go all the way,
and you can play for England."

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I hear a chuckle in the background,
his mum laughing in the kitchen.

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That's literally dreams
on top of dreams. It's…

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It's stupid to even…
to even consider, I think.

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Basically said he wanted to be my agent.
And I think I said yeah to get rid of him.

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So I ended up with… with John Morris.

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Been together ever since.

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Would you like to clarify,
you will be here next year?

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Uh, no, I'm signing for Ibiza Town.

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Going to Ibiza on holiday,
and I'm never coming back.

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We got promoted, won the league.

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So I spoke to John, I just said,
"Listen, I'm quitting my job."

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He's like, "What?" I went, "I'm just gonna
give football a go for a year."

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"If it don't work, it don't work."

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It was my job then
to get him in the football league.

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I had to just hound people.

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I was cold-calling, speaking to people,
texting them, messaging them.

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But nobody wanted him.

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You had to try and convince people
to look beyond the problems.

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He wasn't young, he was… he was 24.
That's old in football.

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Police record, drinking,
partying, fighting.

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Then I got a phone call,
and this team came out of nowhere.

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John just said,
"Do you know where Fleetwood is?"

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To which I replied, "No."

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He's like, "Search it up.
That's where you're going."

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Fleetwood at the time
were in the fifth tier.

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But, again, anything beyond that
was not even a consideration

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in my mind at all.

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I've always believed
that I'm a good player.

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I've just never wanted
to get carried away.

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This is Jamie Vardy.

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And Vardy all the way. It's in!

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That's it for Fleetwood!

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The Fleetwood Town season,
for me, was where the magic happened.

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…for the first time in their history.

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Straight to the Fleetwood
danger man. Vardy scores!

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He was happy. He was loving life.
It was like cheating with him in the team.

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Jamie Vardy!

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I think I scored 31 in 34 games,
I think it was.

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Jamie Vardy
scored nine goals in his last nine games.

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Has been watched
in recent weeks by scouts.

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Because he was doing well
in that first half of the season,

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instead of me chasing people,
people were now calling me.

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He went on, they won the league.
Another medal for him.

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He was player of the year.
He was the main man.

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One day, I got a call
from the chairman of Fleetwood saying,

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"I have agreed terms with three clubs
from the Championship,"

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which is the second tier
of English football.

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This is happening. It's coming.

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Maybe I am right.

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You know? Maybe I am right.

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And one of those clubs was Leicester City,
managed by Nigel Pearson,

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who, Jamie won't admit it,
is a big hero of his.

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Nigel was the captain
of Sheffield Wednesday.

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It was exciting.

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Obviously, I'd seen him play
for Sheffield Wednesday,

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so that was quite a massive thing for me.

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His story was interesting.
Meeting him was interesting.

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He was very quiet and very…

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Just very quiet when he came in,

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but he's got a glint in his eye,
let's put it like that.

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I think the quiet side of it
is, obviously,

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I had a couple of drinks the night before.

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Feeling a bit rough.

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Nigel was going, "So come on then.
Are you signing for us?"

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And that was it.
There was only one place I was gonna go.

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We got there. We got there.

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It was a contract around £8,000 a week.

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More money
than he's ever earned in his life.

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I was so excited. I mean, this is it.

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You know, I've gone from the seventh tier
to the second tier.

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Jamie's reaction was one of, "Okay."

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But not,
"I can't believe it, John. We're there."

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"We're going to the Championship."
No hugs, no high-fives. Just, "Okay."

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When Leicester put the bid in,

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I'd say that was me starting to think
that I might actually be good at football.

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But I was 25 and only just turning pro.

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Now going the unchartered waters
'cause the jump now has gone massive.

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It's gonna be a big step,
but I think I can do it meself.

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And obviously,
the gaffer's obviously been watching me.

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He thinks I can do it as well,
so I just hope I can repay him.

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He wasn't a stereotypical academy product.

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There was an edge to him.

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And you could see it in his eyes,
in his mannerisms,

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the way he carried himself.

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The way he attacks a game of football

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is significantly different
to any other player that I've worked with.

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Strikers don't tackle. Jamie tackles.

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I think it got announced three days later.

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I was in the pub back home
with The Inbetweeners.

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We were in here.
There used to be a telly in the back.

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We're all just sat round the table,
and it come up on the news.

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He has rewritten the record books,

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but the £1 million price tag
doesn't faze Jamie Vardy.

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It's obviously an honor. I must have been
doing very well this season.

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And if they're willing to pay the money,
then I've just gotta make sure

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I can play on the pitch
and prove I'm worth it.

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Went crazy on news channels, papers.

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There'd never, ever been
a non-league player

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go for a million pounds.

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Probably say at that moment in time,
that's when it really got real.

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What did you know
about Leicester City as a club

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at that point?

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If I'm honest, as a club, not a lot.

20:20.919 --> 20:23.760
There is a lot of pride
coming from Leicester.

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But at the time, they'd won nothing.

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No FA Cup,
uh, no Premier League title. No--

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They'd never been champions of England.

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It's a very middle-of-the-road,
average Midlands club.

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They'd reached the depths really.
In 2008, they dropped to League One,

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to the third tier of English football,
for the first time in their history.

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Aside of bereavement in your family,
it's the next worst feeling I've ever had.

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And it's been a slow rise
for a number of years after that.

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They are back
in the Championship once again.

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They fought their way
back into the Championship,

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and there was fresh hope.

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They are the ultimate underdog team.

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Except for the people of Leicester,
everybody writes them off.

21:06.560 --> 21:09.560
We were never really talked about
as contenders for anything.

21:10.520 --> 21:13.919
A lot of the players we had
were deemed surplus to requirements.

21:14.440 --> 21:16.679
They'd been at other clubs,
their contracts had run down.

21:16.760 --> 21:19.440
They were free agents
that nobody else really fancied.

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But they like to surprise people.

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Every season,
there's something that happens.

21:25.600 --> 21:27.600
There's always a drama,
there's always a story.

21:30.360 --> 21:32.560
At first, walking
into the dressing room, it's…

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You see the caliber of players in there.
You're like, "Fuck. Wow."

21:36.800 --> 21:40.880
I was, I wouldn't say star-struck,
but I'd probably say in awe of it all.

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I'll be totally honest,
I'd not heard of him beforehand.

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I've heard the news, I saw the media,
and you expect a lot.

21:48.640 --> 21:51.120
You know, you're expecting,
okay, this guy can score goals.

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Can he score goals at this level?

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It must've been daunting
when he first went in there.

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Turning up in a shit car, shit clothes,
and a shit haircut.

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Came in the changing room,

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dressed like he'd just been woken up
in Malia and come back to football.

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He had crinkle-bottom jeans,
big V-neck T-shirt, jewelry on his wrist.

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It was almost endearing seeing him
with those clothes.

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It was almost like,
"Bless him, he's trying his best."

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The first game was Torquay
in the Cup. Managed to score.

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I was just thinking, "Right."
Just carried on as normal.

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Just done what I was doing last year,
started it again now.

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It doesn't work like that,
unfortunately, in football.

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He didn't quite find his feet,
didn't quite make his mark.

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He's come from non-league where
he knows how the hustle and bustle works.

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He can outsmart defenders in that league.

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Vardy trying to use
his pace to full effect.

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When you step into the Championship,

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the defenders will read your movement.

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They will match you.

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And I know he definitely did struggle
a little bit in his first season.

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In goes the cross.
And Vardy's header! Off the bar!

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-He looked miles off it.
-Looked off it.

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-His touch weren't there.
-The level looked too far of a level.

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-Yeah.
-To where he was--

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-Out of his depth.
-Yeah, he looked out of his depth.

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Martyn Waghorn will replace Jamie Vardy.

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Wasn't like I wasn't trying.

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I was giving it my all.
It just wasn't good enough.

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And it was tough, because now,
all of a sudden, everyone's involved.

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More fans, papers, everything.

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You do start letting it
get into your head that,

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"Right, okay.
Maybe I'm not good for Championship."

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The biggest test when he came
to Leicester was to be a professional.

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When I interviewed him
in that first season,

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he just seemed to be a little bit lost.

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He was still trying to find
the measure of the standard of football

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he was now being asked to play.

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I think he suffered a culture shock.

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The level's gone up a couple of notches
to what he's used to,

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and he's trying
to still live that lifestyle.

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Some of the stuff
I saw him do in the first year,

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you would never believe
that would be a professional footballer.

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Just used to go and have a drink
to forget about it as much as I can.

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Being with your mates, talking about,
like, the past, the old memories.

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But that drink could turn into two days.

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He openly admitted
about how he used alcohol

24:32.919 --> 24:34.880
to address some of the pressures
he was feeling,

24:34.960 --> 24:38.320
and about how he would go about
manufacturing his own alcohol,

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the Skittle vodka.

24:39.600 --> 24:42.040
He'd sit at home,
massive bottle of Belvedere,

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and he'd just tip packs of Skittles
in the top, leave it in there to dissolve.

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Then he'd say, "It tastes unbelievable.
Tastes like Skittles."

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It didn't. It tasted horrific.

24:51.040 --> 24:52.840
I remember going into the apartment.

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There were pizza boxes,
mail all over the floor.

24:55.720 --> 24:58.159
I remember sorting out his bills,
'cause he wasn't paying his bills.

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He'd been late for training
a couple of times in a row.

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And I said, "Look, Jamie,
you're gonna be back in non-league."

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"You've got one chance in life.
And you either take it or you don't."

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But Nigel was incredibly lenient to Jamie.

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Almost like a father-son relationship.

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We knew he was having a tough time.

25:21.280 --> 25:26.080
There's an element of his personality
which has a self-destruct button.

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Challenged, but unfairly.

25:29.320 --> 25:31.640
It felt the right thing to do

25:31.720 --> 25:35.360
to give him that added support
which he desperately needed.

25:36.480 --> 25:39.560
It was tough. At one point,
I asked him to send me back to Fleetwood.

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I thought I could go back there
and go straight back to scoring goals.

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But Nigel turned around and said,
"Look, it's not happening."

25:50.439 --> 25:51.919
"We believe in you."

25:52.000 --> 25:54.760
"We think you're good enough,
so you're going nowhere."

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At that point, if I was gonna go
any further, I needed that stability,

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that someone to be there with me,

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and to help.

26:12.320 --> 26:14.919
I'd just come out of
a not-a-great relationship.

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I'd had a little boy,

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and I was working at a nightclub
in Sheffield.

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And I had a call from someone

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who said, "I've got a birthday party
I need you to organize."

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"Can't tell you who it is at the minute."

26:30.919 --> 26:33.320
At which point I'm thinking,
"Oh, for God's sake."

26:33.399 --> 26:35.199
You know, car crash.

26:36.360 --> 26:40.679
I found out it was Jamie Vardy,
and I was like, "What's the big deal?"

26:41.399 --> 26:44.080
I didn't even know who he was
at that point.

26:45.280 --> 26:49.280
But when I learnt that Jamie
was a professional sports player,

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it made me wanna run
the other direction very quickly.

26:53.560 --> 26:56.679
There's this kind of preconception
that they're all idiots,

26:56.760 --> 26:58.040
they're all arseholes.

26:58.120 --> 27:01.080
So Jamie's birthday came round,

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and sure enough,
Jamie rocks in shit-faced.

27:06.840 --> 27:10.120
He had one friend on each side
holding him up basically.

27:10.199 --> 27:12.520
And I'm thinking, "Oh my God."

27:12.600 --> 27:16.800
Yeah, I turned up to my own party
absolutely steaming.

27:18.040 --> 27:19.320
The next thing I see,

27:19.399 --> 27:22.159
his friend's ordering
big bottles of champagne.

27:22.240 --> 27:24.880
They're now out on the dance floor,

27:25.720 --> 27:28.520
tipping them over
other members of the public.

27:28.600 --> 27:29.560
That were mad.

27:29.640 --> 27:31.080
-It was a good one.
-Yeah.

27:31.840 --> 27:34.040
I'm actually fucking over this now.

27:34.120 --> 27:37.280
Like, these group of lads
are not a normal group of lads.

27:37.360 --> 27:40.800
They're like mental cases.
They are like yobs.

27:40.880 --> 27:44.280
Yeah, it sounds like all my mates,
if I'm honest.

27:44.360 --> 27:45.600
-Is it that?
-No.

27:45.679 --> 27:46.760
Is it?

27:46.840 --> 27:47.919
-Is it that side?
-No.

27:48.000 --> 27:50.159
-It's all the same signature.
-Very similar.

27:51.560 --> 27:55.439
Wes Morgan's on the dance floor
with this bottle of champagne,

27:55.520 --> 27:58.560
pouring it into anyone's mouth
that would be willing.

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The next thing I see

28:02.840 --> 28:06.679
is Jamie being literally carried out
of the club by two of his friends.

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And I was like, "Oh, thank God for that.
At least one down."

28:14.120 --> 28:18.480
Later that evening,
I get a text message from Jamie saying,

28:18.560 --> 28:21.480
"I really wanna see you,"
and I was like, "Nah, delete."

28:23.000 --> 28:26.520
One of the first things I did
soon as I woke up was message her.

28:26.600 --> 28:29.560
She was good-looking.
She had this aura about her.

28:30.080 --> 28:33.600
I legitimately thought
that that's the one.

28:34.120 --> 28:35.679
Jamie keeps messaging me.

28:35.760 --> 28:37.560
And it was relentless,
then it was calling.

28:37.640 --> 28:40.679
I'd responded a couple of times
going, "Look, just forget about it."

28:40.760 --> 28:42.480
He just would not leave me alone.

28:42.560 --> 28:45.439
No, I weren't-- I weren't letting it go.

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There was no chance that was gonna happen.

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It got to the point where I was like,
"Oh, fuck it."

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"Just respond, go meet him,
and then that'll be the end of it."

28:56.840 --> 29:00.600
And the more I sat with him,
the more I realized that actually,

29:00.679 --> 29:06.399
behind this crazy, alcohol-loving,
wild, party boy,

29:06.480 --> 29:10.560
was actually a guy that was really kind,

29:10.639 --> 29:14.560
was really good at listening,
and he was really good to talk to.

29:15.360 --> 29:19.919
We decided to go on a couple more dates,
see what happens.

29:20.000 --> 29:23.439
Just being around her,
it was, like, an unbelievable feeling.

29:23.520 --> 29:25.439
Then it started getting serious.

29:26.760 --> 29:28.040
There were other girls.

29:28.120 --> 29:31.159
People are gonna latch on.
He's a famous footballer. That's it.

29:31.240 --> 29:36.199
So he never knew how to take any of it
because it might come, it might go.

29:36.280 --> 29:39.840
I felt like Bex was different though.
Within weeks, he was calling her wifey.

29:40.600 --> 29:42.919
In the time I'd been with him,
I'd never seen girlfriends.

29:43.000 --> 29:44.280
Like, proper girlfriends.

29:44.360 --> 29:47.760
But it soon came
that Becky was then coming to games.

29:48.280 --> 29:51.240
I thought,
"Ooh, this one might be staying around."

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And then she told me she was pregnant
on the second time that I saw her.

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Your natural reaction is to think,
"Is she in it for the right reasons?"

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Wasn't planned,

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but we decided that, you know,
we were gonna give it a real go.

30:08.360 --> 30:12.159
But he kept getting really, really drunk.

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Every weekend, disappearing.

30:15.040 --> 30:19.480
I had a scan coming up
and couldn't get hold of him.

30:19.560 --> 30:20.760
Nowhere to be seen.

30:21.520 --> 30:23.520
So I called John Morris, and I was like,

30:23.600 --> 30:26.879
"John, go and find him.
I need to speak to him."

30:28.720 --> 30:33.120
Some people have a drink for eight hours.
Jamie had gone on a bender for 36 hours.

30:33.199 --> 30:35.720
And it would always be
with The Inbetweeners.

30:35.800 --> 30:37.840
So I could ring them and say,
"Look, where is he?"

30:38.879 --> 30:41.679
We were all sat in his local pub
having a drink.

30:41.760 --> 30:44.199
And we were, like,
round the table downstairs,

30:44.280 --> 30:46.480
and then she just stormed in
out of nowhere.

30:46.560 --> 30:48.480
-Her face was thunder.
-She were mad.

30:48.560 --> 30:50.280
-Yeah, she were mad.
-She were mad.

30:50.360 --> 30:55.000
I went, "You, me, conversation now."

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Like a little schoolboy. "Come on."

30:57.120 --> 30:59.159
He moved faster than he did on the field.

30:59.240 --> 31:01.560
I just said to him, "What is your deal?"

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"Like, what is going on?"

31:05.120 --> 31:09.679
I knew I could tell her anything,
and it was never too much for her.

31:10.199 --> 31:15.199
He really started to open up then
about why he behaved the way he did.

31:15.280 --> 31:18.320
He was like,
"I've got all this pressure on me now

31:18.399 --> 31:21.080
because, you know,
they've spent all this money."

31:21.159 --> 31:24.560
"And I just don't think
I can live up to those expectations."

31:24.639 --> 31:27.080
And I'm like,
"Why do you doubt yourself so much?"

31:27.840 --> 31:32.919
"You have an incredible opportunity
to do something really special."

31:33.439 --> 31:35.199
I was like, "How do you feel about that?"

31:35.280 --> 31:38.919
And he goes,
"Oh, it's probably never gonna work."

31:40.159 --> 31:46.280
He said he'd always been rejected
and been told he wasn't good enough.

31:46.360 --> 31:50.840
And so, naturally,
we do start to believe that's true.

31:51.719 --> 31:54.679
But I said to him,
"You are gonna screw everything up

31:54.760 --> 31:57.520
that you've worked so bloody hard for

31:57.600 --> 32:00.399
if you don't change
your lifestyle choices."

32:00.480 --> 32:04.639
I'm not telling you to stop drinking.
I'm just telling you to rein it in.

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And what she was saying was right.
It needed to stop. It really did.

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I needed to hear it.

32:10.439 --> 32:14.600
We talked for hours and hours,
and it was like therapy for him.

32:15.520 --> 32:17.399
And it was at that point

32:17.480 --> 32:20.240
that things really, really
did turn around.

32:20.320 --> 32:23.199
And in quite a short space of time then.

32:24.360 --> 32:27.520
She had his interests at heart.
That's when I feel like--

32:27.600 --> 32:29.840
-We lost him.
-Yeah, and then we lost him.

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Vards had gone.
We had to buy our own pint.

32:36.600 --> 32:40.560
Vards pre- and post-Becky
is two completely different people.

32:40.639 --> 32:45.000
Having that stability,
that calmness in his life,

32:45.080 --> 32:46.919
reflected in his performance.

32:47.000 --> 32:49.639
Still with Vardy.
Still with Vardy. Takes his man on.

32:49.719 --> 32:53.199
Jamie Vardy, there it is!
That's the goal with Jamie Vardy!

32:53.959 --> 32:56.959
Goes to strike it. Goal. Jamie Vardy.

32:57.040 --> 32:58.360
She'd always be pushing me

32:58.439 --> 33:00.639
to better myself
and go in the right direction,

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and it's 100% what I needed.

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Poor back-pass from Jay Tabb.

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A Jamie Vardy
who's in a good place mentally

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is then gonna have
a positive effect on other people.

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Still Jamie Vardy.
There was only gonna be one outcome.

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Here's Vardy. Goal.

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The goal that season was to get promoted
to the Premier League.

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And we flew through that league,

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got 102 points,
and Vards was a massive part of that.

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He really emerged as the player
that could be the spark for the team.

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Jamie Vardy, such a romantic story.

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Two years ago, he was a member
of the Fleetwood Town side.

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Then he came to Leicester last season
for a million pounds,

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but he's really delivered
in this campaign.

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In just five years,

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you climbed from the eighth tier
of football

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to the top flight.

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How many years? Five?

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-Five.
-Fucking hell.

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There's a gulf between every division,

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but the biggest jump is from
the Championship to the Premier League.

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Players from all over the world,
the best of the best,

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come and play in the Premier League.

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They're playing Man United,
Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester City.

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It is the richest league in the world,

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and there's a definite link between
money and success in the Premier League.

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Clubs like Leicester are not expected

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to compete with the elite
of English football.

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A promoted team going up,
it's a struggle all season.

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Your main aim is to stay in that league.

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For me, personally, it was, now let's see
if I can do it at this level.

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A sense of energy and expectation

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around the King Power Stadium
ahead of this one.

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The sun has come out right on cue.

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It was a bit of excitement
more than anything in the dressing room.

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Lads were excited
to be playing against Man United.

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Everybody watches Man United
all over the world,

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so all of a sudden, the audience
isn't just England, it's worldwide.

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By and large, these
Leicester players have plied their trade

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in and around the Championship.
Some of them…

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This was a huge David versus Goliath game.

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Little old Leicester had been
out of the Premier League for a decade.

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And now they were gonna take on
Manchester United,

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royalty in English football.

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That's when it felt real.

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Here they come,
Leicester against Manchester United.

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I don't care who I'm playing against.

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That's how I've always been.

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You need to be just focusing on yourself.
That was the main focus that day.

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I will never forget the Man United game
as long as I live.

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One, 'cause he's got
the stupid bloody mohawk.

35:40.319 --> 35:42.440
Jamie Vardy starts a Premier League game

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for the very first time.

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Coming out with a haircut like that,
what a knobhead.

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Yeah.

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Honestly, when he came home
from the barbers, I was like,

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"What is wrong with you?
Why can you not just be normal?"

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It was just me being me.

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I thought, why not?

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Let's just go into this new season
and give it as good as I can.

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Falcao, he's looking for van Persie.

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Right on cue, Robin van Persie
off and running for the season.

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Rooney. Di María has continued his run.

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And Di María goes for the finish,
and that is a sensational goal.

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They score early doors.

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You think, "Here we go."

36:21.880 --> 36:24.799
"This is gonna be one of those
where it's just, don't get pumped."

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Manchester United
must've thought, "This is gonna be easy."

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This could be 4, 5, 6 - nil.

36:30.280 --> 36:33.200
But suddenly,
then Jamie Vardy came to the floor.

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There's only one goal in it.
Let's keep pushing and see what happens.

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Van Persie. Di María. Deflected and in.

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Herrera, wheels away.

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3-1 down. This is not looking good.

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It was like the game was done.

36:57.120 --> 37:00.400
I could see Jamie looking back
at the bench to say, "Are you sure?"

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"There's still plenty of time."

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You can still get something here.

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He was running his heart out
to try and create something for the team,

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try and create something for himself.

37:10.880 --> 37:14.000
He looked like a thug
on the pitch, this raw, caged animal

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with power, pace, energy.

37:18.040 --> 37:19.720
It was just him everywhere.

37:19.799 --> 37:23.560
It felt like there was two Jamie Vardys
on the pitch. And he bullied them.

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Rafael responds and gives away a penalty.

37:34.839 --> 37:36.400
There's Cambiasso!

37:37.960 --> 37:40.720
And then what happened next
was miraculous.

37:40.799 --> 37:43.440
Ritchie De Laet
has got Vardy up ahead and free!

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Vardy could win it here for them!

37:45.600 --> 37:47.640
He scores!

37:47.720 --> 37:50.080
The comeback of all comebacks!

37:50.160 --> 37:53.000
I was buzzing, not gonna lie.
Absolutely buzzing.

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Jamie Vardy
with his first ever Premier League goal.

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It's hard to score goals at any level,

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but to do it
in the best league in the world,

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it shows that this is
where I'm supposed to be.

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I think the haircut might have helped.

38:06.799 --> 38:10.200
Jamie Vardy's having a party
Bring your vodka and your Charlie

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It's a fairy tale, and, uh,
he deserves great credit, this guy,

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for showing people that he can be a player
in the Premier League.

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Leicester five, Manchester United three.

38:19.920 --> 38:22.319
It was something that
we never thought we'd really see.

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It was, you know, really Jamie Vardy five,
Manchester United three.

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How big a day was this for you?

38:28.839 --> 38:30.680
Three years ago this weekend,

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playing for Fleetwood
against Kidderminster.

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Incredible, isn't it?

38:33.839 --> 38:37.480
Yeah, it's massive. Obviously, it's not
been an easy journey to come here.

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Now we're at the top,
but it's all about staying here now.

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Managed to get three points.
Moves us up the table.

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A lot of people had never heard of him,
but that was the game

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where everybody's turning round, going,
"Who the fuck is that guy?"

38:52.920 --> 38:56.720
Everyone wanted to find out more
about the man behind the name.

38:56.799 --> 39:01.480
And he absolutely despised
doing interviews.

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Oh, for fuck's sake.

39:03.040 --> 39:06.640
He wasn't confident enough
in front of cameras.

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Are we recording?

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-I was shite.
-You'd cringe.

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You'd watch him,
and you'd be like, "Oh no."

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I've settled in to the standard of foot--

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Wahey.

39:15.560 --> 39:17.319
Sorry, booty call.

39:17.400 --> 39:20.120
When you're brought through the academy,
you get all that training.

39:20.200 --> 39:22.560
He's been chucked in from Fleetwood,
like "Yeah, go for it."

39:22.640 --> 39:23.520
Uh… Uh…

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Youngsters now have to do media training,

39:27.080 --> 39:29.120
whereas I did what any normal kid does.

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Just got to the swimming pool,
jumped in the deep end.

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Swim. Swim.

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Can you do that again?
But don't look in here.

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But I like looking in there. I'm a poser.

39:39.359 --> 39:41.960
There's no better way of learning,
I'll be honest.

39:42.040 --> 39:43.080
Hey, Becky.

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Just saw a bit of shine.

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-How've you seen a shine from there?
-I asked.

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-You asked?
-Yeah.

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-Fucking hell. You got spies in here?
-I was waiting till you'd finished.

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I'd not finished.
I was just halfway through it.

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Stop frowning. Just relax your face.

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Right.

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No one likes a shiny Vardy.

40:05.880 --> 40:09.640
No one likes an unshiny Vardy either.
Do I look better on camera now?

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Beautiful.

40:15.319 --> 40:17.480
After the Manchester United game,

40:18.200 --> 40:20.600
Sofia came into the world.

40:22.480 --> 40:24.640
There was a real air of excitement.

40:25.520 --> 40:27.000
It was new beginnings.

40:28.319 --> 40:30.600
And new beginnings for everyone as well.

40:30.680 --> 40:33.319
Oh, are we… are we on a swing?

40:34.440 --> 40:36.400
Smile. Hello.

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The both of us, over the moon.

40:38.040 --> 40:38.880
Hello.

40:39.480 --> 40:41.440
The family side of it were great.

40:41.520 --> 40:44.720
Me and Bex had now
got our own little bundle of joy.

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But the football side of it was…
was a bit more tough.

40:51.520 --> 40:54.160
Leicester currently bottom of the league,

40:54.240 --> 40:57.880
and scratching around for a goal,
never mind a victory.

40:58.640 --> 40:59.880
We were in a bad run.

40:59.960 --> 41:02.319
We were in a run of games
where we couldn't get a result.

41:04.520 --> 41:07.160
They were bottom of the table
for 140 days.

41:07.680 --> 41:10.839
There was no chance of survival.
They were absolutely rock bottom.

41:11.359 --> 41:13.640
The dream looked like
it was gonna turn into a nightmare.

41:13.720 --> 41:15.600
Leicester have lost again.

41:15.680 --> 41:20.080
They stay bottom, and they have
an almighty fight on their hands

41:20.160 --> 41:22.480
to stay in the Barclays Premier League.

41:22.560 --> 41:24.880
Any chance for you for them staying up?

41:24.960 --> 41:27.960
I think they've gotta win four
of their remaining eight games to, uh…

41:28.040 --> 41:29.160
to give themselves a chance.

41:29.240 --> 41:32.280
They've only won five all season,
so I think it's a tough ask.

41:33.920 --> 41:36.640
Towards the end
of that season, we were dead and buried.

41:36.720 --> 41:39.560
People had written us off. I think
the bookies had stopped taking bets.

41:39.640 --> 41:42.120
And we were… we were doomed.

41:43.480 --> 41:45.920
So Leicester City get us off and underway…

41:46.000 --> 41:47.440
If they didn't win that day,

41:47.520 --> 41:50.359
they would really be staring
down the barrel of relegation.

41:50.440 --> 41:52.240
Time was running out for them.

41:52.839 --> 41:56.560
Four minutes to be added.
We are into those four minutes now.

41:56.640 --> 42:00.319
It was 2-2. It was over 90 minutes.
Yeah, we were down and out.

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If I'm being told I can't do something,

42:06.600 --> 42:10.600
then I'm doing everything
physically possible to prove that I can.

42:18.920 --> 42:22.960
Left-footed, Jamie Vardy!
What a goal from Jamie Vardy!

42:23.040 --> 42:27.880
Has he just got Leicester City
a huge Premier League lifeline?

42:29.080 --> 42:31.680
That goal gave us the spark we needed

42:31.760 --> 42:33.839
to start believing
we can do this, you know?

42:35.520 --> 42:38.200
"Fuck this. We're not getting relegated."

42:38.280 --> 42:41.280
That was his mantra.
He would say it, he would shout it.

42:41.359 --> 42:43.880
He would get people
to where they needed to be.

42:45.680 --> 42:49.359
"We are staying up"
is the cry echoing around the King Power.

42:49.440 --> 42:51.319
Yeah, Ulloa!

42:51.400 --> 42:53.400
Finds the bottom corner.

42:54.520 --> 42:57.000
Can they do it? Can they escape?

42:57.520 --> 43:02.280
There was a lot of pressure,
but Vards just made everyone relax

43:03.200 --> 43:05.200
because of his personality
and his character,

43:05.280 --> 43:07.080
and that was infectious.

43:07.720 --> 43:10.040
And if I'm more relaxed,
I'll perform better.

43:12.799 --> 43:15.480
What a chance! And Vardy was there.

43:16.319 --> 43:18.520
Vital win for Leicester City.

43:26.200 --> 43:29.040
They can almost taste safety now.

43:30.440 --> 43:33.480
Looking for Vardy again. Oh, Mahrez!

43:34.200 --> 43:36.600
Yet another win for Leicester City.

43:37.120 --> 43:42.040
They've almost doubled their tally
in just over a month. Incredible.

43:43.040 --> 43:46.280
And that is the full-time
whistle here at the Stadium of Light.

43:46.359 --> 43:51.280
Leicester City have guaranteed their place
in the Premier League next term,

43:51.359 --> 43:53.160
with a point here at Sunderland

43:53.240 --> 43:57.240
and a run that defies all runs
in the Premier League.

44:02.640 --> 44:05.280
I don't know how it happened.
Unbelievable achievement.

44:06.000 --> 44:07.760
"The Great Escape," they call it.

44:09.359 --> 44:10.720
The club was gonna be playing

44:10.799 --> 44:12.359
Premier League football
the following season.

44:12.440 --> 44:14.160
That was incredible for… for everyone.

44:14.240 --> 44:17.600
And Vards was very much
at the heart of that.

44:32.680 --> 44:35.280
I was out shopping for holiday clothes,

44:35.359 --> 44:38.760
and I got a text message saying that
I'd been called up to the England squad.

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And I just looked at it and closed it,
thinking someone was taking the piss.

44:44.200 --> 44:46.200
Have you had to pinch yourself at all?

44:46.280 --> 44:48.319
I've been pinching myself every day,

44:48.400 --> 44:51.520
obviously, since, uh,
the squad got mentioned, and…

44:51.600 --> 44:55.920
I expected it. If you believe it
in the seventh tier of English football,

44:56.000 --> 44:58.240
why am I gonna change
when you get to the first tier?

44:58.960 --> 45:01.280
I remember him saying back in the day,

45:01.359 --> 45:03.400
"You're gonna play for England."
I'm laughing at him.

45:03.480 --> 45:08.200
But he was right. He's…
First time he's been right.

45:08.280 --> 45:10.280
Vardy and Rooney up front for England.

45:10.359 --> 45:13.240
That's something that wouldn't
have been said a year or two back.

45:13.319 --> 45:16.760
A year or two? I don't think
it'd have been said three months ago.

45:16.839 --> 45:20.040
That's the ultimate honor.
Playing for your country.

45:20.680 --> 45:23.799
Pulling that jersey on
with them three lions on.

45:23.879 --> 45:25.520
It's stuff of dreams.

45:25.600 --> 45:28.200
It probably was stuff of his dreams,
and he made them reality.

45:29.879 --> 45:32.680
Jamie's different to the players
that normally play for England,

45:32.760 --> 45:34.560
because they've come through academies.

45:34.640 --> 45:36.640
They're gonna have
the best nutrition advice.

45:36.720 --> 45:38.280
Strength conditioning as well.

45:38.920 --> 45:41.600
And here comes
this freak of nature, Jamie Vardy,

45:41.680 --> 45:44.440
living off pizza, Pringles, and Red Bull.

45:46.120 --> 45:48.600
Everybody wanted a piece of Jamie Vardy.

45:49.120 --> 45:51.400
But he weren't ready.
You know, we weren't expecting it,

45:51.480 --> 45:52.920
and it just went "poof."

45:55.359 --> 45:57.200
They're interested in everything.

45:57.799 --> 46:01.400
Somebody trawled through his Facebook
and found this "chat shit get banged."

46:02.400 --> 46:04.280
What's "chat shit get banged"?

46:05.040 --> 46:07.000
This is the problem, I don't know.

46:07.080 --> 46:10.040
I really don't know. It's doing me head--
Everyone asks.

46:10.120 --> 46:12.160
I would imagine it would've been

46:12.240 --> 46:16.160
a pretty standard Tuesday night
for Jamie Vardy and the boys.

46:16.240 --> 46:17.960
Somebody chatting shit,
somebody got banged.

46:18.040 --> 46:19.720
-He put it on Facebook.
-Twitter.

46:19.799 --> 46:21.879
-"Chat shit get banged."
-Yeah.

46:21.960 --> 46:23.440
So then he took it as like…

46:23.520 --> 46:26.120
Then people ran with that.
"Vards chat shit get banged," but--

46:26.200 --> 46:28.240
I've no idea why I wrote it.

46:28.319 --> 46:31.200
I think it was from, like,
2012 or something.

46:31.960 --> 46:35.839
So I've literally not got a Scooby-Doo.
But it sounds good.

46:36.359 --> 46:37.680
Chat shit get banged

46:38.480 --> 46:40.480
Banged
Chat shit get banged

46:40.560 --> 46:43.879
It just became an instant slogan,
and the fans embraced it.

46:43.960 --> 46:44.799
Banged

46:44.879 --> 46:47.640
Internet memes and songs people recorded.

46:47.720 --> 46:50.839
And you did see T-shirts and tattoos.
There was all sorts.

46:50.920 --> 46:52.600
…get banged
Line 'em up, line 'em up

46:52.680 --> 46:54.680
Jamie Vardy was becoming a cult figure,

46:54.760 --> 46:56.640
and, uh, it just summed him up.

46:56.720 --> 46:58.680
Talk nonsense to me,
you're gonna get something.

46:58.760 --> 47:01.040
I think it was a message to defenders
in the Premier League.

47:01.120 --> 47:02.200
-They get what?
-Banged.

47:02.280 --> 47:03.319
Chat shit, chat shit get--

47:03.400 --> 47:04.480
-Banged.
-Banged.

47:08.200 --> 47:09.040
Whoo.

47:09.120 --> 47:12.120
Going into the new season, we were
confident we knew how to win games.

47:12.200 --> 47:13.520
Whoo-hoo.

47:14.280 --> 47:16.160
Floating on the moon

47:16.240 --> 47:18.839
We've still got this momentum
from the year before.

47:20.319 --> 47:21.680
Can we carry that on?

47:25.000 --> 47:26.680
There are various media

47:26.760 --> 47:30.560
reporting that Nigel Pearson
has been, quote, "sacked"

47:30.640 --> 47:34.720
as the manager of Leicester City.
Unconfirmed reports at the moment.

47:35.520 --> 47:37.359
The reason it comes as such a shock

47:37.440 --> 47:39.760
is that Pearson had done
such a fantastic job

47:39.839 --> 47:42.319
in rescuing Leicester
and keeping them in the Premier League.

47:42.400 --> 47:46.680
He managed to achieve the greatest escapes
that we've seen in Premier League history.

47:47.680 --> 47:50.720
I was utterly shocked,
knowing what he'd done for myself,

47:50.799 --> 47:54.920
taking me there
and backing me and believing in me.

47:55.000 --> 47:58.000
I was… Probably say I was devastated.

47:58.080 --> 48:00.080
He's the man who steered Leicester City

48:00.160 --> 48:01.839
clear of relegation
from the Premier League.

48:01.920 --> 48:04.560
One month later,
he's been sacked by the club.

48:05.879 --> 48:10.839
It was difficult leaving, yeah,
under the circumstances as well, but…

48:12.080 --> 48:17.760
It was not an easy period to come through,
in all honesty. It was a tough time.

48:20.080 --> 48:24.200
It was a shock to everyone,
and I think it's like with anything.

48:24.280 --> 48:27.240
When there's a big change like that,
there's the unknown.

48:29.760 --> 48:32.040
There was an expectation
after the great escape

48:32.120 --> 48:33.520
that they could build on that.

48:33.600 --> 48:37.680
But then when Nigel Pearson left,
there was a lot of doubt,

48:37.760 --> 48:41.040
and the big question then was
"Who's next?"

48:41.760 --> 48:44.920
Leicester City's search
for a new manager is over,

48:45.000 --> 48:48.960
as they've announced the appointment
of Claudio Ranieri.

48:49.040 --> 48:50.520
-Really?
-Claudio Ranieri.

48:50.600 --> 48:52.480
-Claudio Ranieri?
-Claudio Ranieri.

48:52.560 --> 48:54.960
-What the fuck?
-This is a bit of a shock.

48:55.040 --> 48:57.879
I think people thought
they'd seen the last of Claudio Ranieri.

48:57.960 --> 49:01.080
It's a strange appointment.
I think they've taken a massive risk.

49:01.160 --> 49:04.720
For me, it's very…
it's very good and very exciting

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to start the new, uh, season.

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He has a CV blessed
with 14 different teams he's managed.

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Most recently Greece where he only
took charge for, I think, four games.

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They lost to the Faroe Islands.
He was subsequently sacked.

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They were different personalities.

49:23.120 --> 49:25.839
Nigel's approach
was to foster this team spirit,

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whereas Claudio was a man
that used to chop and change a lot.

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"The Tinkerman," as he was known.

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It just felt like
this could be a recipe for disaster.

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There was not a lot I knew, if I'm honest.
Just knew he'd been at Chelsea. That's it.

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We didn't know what to expect.

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It was gonna be a lot different
to the regime that we was currently in.

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-I want to don't change too much.
-Yeah.

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But just to give my…
the Italian tactical way.

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Coming into the '15-'16 season,
we didn't have a particularly big squad.

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We didn't have any marquee signings.

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It was a… a band of brothers, really,
assembled on a shoe-string budget.

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Everything seemed to be
stacked against them that season.

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The odds of Leicester City winning
the Premier League title was 5,000 to 1.

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It means for every pound,
you can get £5,000 back.

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It was the longest odds ever
in the history of the Premier League

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on a team winning the title.

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Famously, you could've got shorter odds
on finding Elvis Presley alive.

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You were literally betting
on the impossible.

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A team like Leicester's
not gonna win the Premier League.

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How do you say impossible?
Why is it impossible?

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It's not gonna happen.
It's not imp-- It's not gonna happen.

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I think in us heads deep down
the main target was to avoid relegation.

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But I love being an underdog.

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At the end of the day, it's 11 versus 11.

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It doesn't matter what team it is,
anything can happen.

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Anything can happen in football.

50:53.359 --> 50:56.879
After 11 years
away from English football, he's back.

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Former Tinkerman of Chelsea
now in charge of Leicester City.

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The first game of a season
is always very unknown.

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You don't know where you are
in terms of fitness levels

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and where you are compared to other teams.

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But we got off to a great start.

51:15.640 --> 51:19.040
Albrighton has delivered.
Knocked on by Huth.

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It's found a way in! Jamie Vardy!

51:24.160 --> 51:25.319
Leicester lead!

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Carrying on
from where they left off last season.

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I remember it being
a bit of a muted celebration.

51:34.120 --> 51:37.640
Was it because he'd been with England
and he's now used to scoring goals,

51:37.720 --> 51:40.319
or was it something
which was going on in the background?

51:43.680 --> 51:45.160
A few weeks before that game,

51:46.000 --> 51:51.319
I was just out with my wife,
teammates there, their partners,

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playing poker in the casino.

51:53.920 --> 51:57.920
There was a guy walking around,
looking at people's cards,

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and going and telling another guy
on the table virtually what we had.

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It literally just kicks off.

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F*** off.

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Shot glasses go flying everywhere.

52:14.040 --> 52:18.040
Cards go everywhere, and Jamie…

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Just the Sheffield lad
came out in full force that night

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and said a few things
that he shouldn't have said.

52:27.760 --> 52:32.359
I remember being sat in bed one night,
and we get a phone call saying

52:32.440 --> 52:38.000
the security cameras
had been provided to the media.

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They're running a racism story.

52:41.160 --> 52:44.200
Shit, like, what's… What have I done here?

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Jap.

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Walk on…

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Used a term that
I didn't think was offensive.

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Thought it was just
an abbreviation of Japan.

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And it got me in a bit of trouble.

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You're like "racist," what?
Like, no, that's not me.

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-He were gutted about it, to be fair.
-Yeah.

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-'Cause it's not him.
-No.

53:12.960 --> 53:15.399
-He's not like that at all.
-No, he's nothing like that.

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We shared a dressing room every day.

53:21.200 --> 53:25.040
We're on the pitch fighting
for each other, you know, every weekend.

53:25.560 --> 53:28.960
In terms of being labeled a racist,
you know, never in a million years.

53:33.319 --> 53:36.520
He didn't say those words
because he was being racist.

53:37.560 --> 53:39.960
He said those words
because he's uneducated.

53:40.040 --> 53:42.799
It was a kind of
throwaway comment for him,

53:42.879 --> 53:46.080
but he openly admitted to us straightaway
that he'd done it,

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and, uh, I think the club took action
to try and redress that.

53:51.160 --> 53:55.960
They could terminate my contract
or massive fines, even sold.

53:56.040 --> 53:58.560
So to be in that situation was horrific.

53:59.120 --> 54:02.319
Leicester City has confirmed
Jamie Vardy has been fined

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and will receive
diversity awareness training.

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And it definitely helped me.
It's not something you get taught.

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Like especially in…

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In school, growing up and stuff,
you get taught what a racist is,

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what terms are not to be used.

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And, you know… 100% should never be used.

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So I think that was a massive,
massive learning curve for myself.

54:29.440 --> 54:32.200
After that moment,
it was go training, go home.

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Don't even bother putting yourself

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in a situation where anything stupid
or anything bad could happen.

54:39.040 --> 54:43.280
We realized, like,
we were not normal people anymore.

54:43.359 --> 54:48.359
As much as we tried to pretend
and, you know, live our lives normally,

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we just couldn't do it anymore.

54:51.480 --> 54:55.680
That event definitely showed
how everything had changed.

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Someone's messaged you.

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Everything.

54:59.399 --> 55:00.640
See you later.

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The club had to move on
very quickly from that.

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Although, it was definitely a feeling that
he'd have to win some people back over.

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But people didn't expect
what was gonna happen next.

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That one hammered home by Jamie Vardy.

55:19.720 --> 55:22.000
Here's Vardy. Jamie Vardy!

55:22.080 --> 55:25.200
He was unbelievable.
He went on this goal-scoring run.

55:25.280 --> 55:28.839
Vardy is breaking through. Astonishing.

55:28.920 --> 55:30.160
He just couldn't stop scoring.

55:30.240 --> 55:31.720
Vardy!

55:33.399 --> 55:36.440
His scoring spree continues.

55:38.280 --> 55:41.319
That's five in a row from Vardy.

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The way he was playing,
you couldn't stop him.

55:43.520 --> 55:45.839
And it drove the team forward.

55:45.920 --> 55:47.280
Then it was like,

55:47.359 --> 55:50.240
let's see how many points we can get
and how high we finish on the table.

55:50.319 --> 55:52.640
Takes over, Vardy. He's in here!

55:52.720 --> 55:56.440
He scored again! He's on fire!

55:57.280 --> 56:01.000
The first time I realized
I was on the consecutive goal-scoring run

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was when we played Crystal Palace at home.

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He's done it yet again.
Seven games running.

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But up until then, I'd not a clue.

56:09.520 --> 56:14.600
Here he is, Jamie Vardy.
In the clear to score again.

56:14.680 --> 56:18.080
The goals just keep on coming
for Jamie Vardy.

56:18.160 --> 56:20.879
The record for scoring
in consecutive games in the Premier League

56:20.960 --> 56:24.359
was Ruud van Nistelrooy.
And he scored in ten consecutive games.

56:24.440 --> 56:27.359
Surrounded by white shirts
and still going.

56:27.440 --> 56:30.120
What a run by Ruud van Nistelrooy.
What a goal.

56:30.200 --> 56:32.359
Ruud van Nistelrooy
was royalty in football.

56:32.440 --> 56:34.600
Scored at some of the biggest clubs
in the world.

56:34.680 --> 56:37.760
Then you've got Jamie Vardy
coming from the backstreets of Sheffield.

56:37.839 --> 56:40.000
There was no chance
that he was gonna break that record.

56:41.879 --> 56:45.440
Is this the moment for Jamie Vardy?

56:46.040 --> 56:48.120
This is the moment!

56:48.200 --> 56:50.799
His remarkable run continues.

56:51.319 --> 56:54.879
He scores for the ninth match running
in the Premier League.

56:54.960 --> 56:58.720
Getting to number nine, and I was one…
one away from matching the record.

56:59.319 --> 57:02.919
Much of the build-up,
of course, has centered on this man.

57:03.000 --> 57:04.680
Jamie Vardy goes for the record.

57:04.760 --> 57:07.919
Ten successive
Barclays Premier League games.

57:08.000 --> 57:10.280
Everyone's talking
in the dressing room, like,

57:10.359 --> 57:13.520
"This is the equal-record game."
It's in the back of everyone's mind.

57:14.600 --> 57:17.080
The previous record set by van Nistelrooy

57:17.160 --> 57:19.200
was actually done
against Newcastle as well.

57:19.280 --> 57:21.759
So it was all along the same lines.

57:21.839 --> 57:23.440
Here's Vardy.

57:24.759 --> 57:27.640
Games that are as tight as this,
he's often the one to separate them.

57:27.720 --> 57:29.520
This is Jamie Vardy!

57:30.759 --> 57:32.200
History maker.

57:32.919 --> 57:34.560
Ten out of ten.

57:35.240 --> 57:40.399
And the fairy tale goes on.
Jamie Vardy is living the dream.

57:40.480 --> 57:42.560
All the headlines
will be about Jamie Vardy

57:42.640 --> 57:44.640
who scored in ten consecutive
Premier League games.

57:44.720 --> 57:47.080
But what about
this Leicester City side as well,

57:47.160 --> 57:48.839
unbeaten in ten away Premier League games?

57:48.919 --> 57:51.799
Oh, ain't going anywhere.
I don't think they're going anywhere.

57:51.879 --> 57:53.399
It's hard to explain.

57:53.480 --> 57:56.680
Obviously, cheers, boys. Wouldn't have
been able to do it without all of you.

57:56.759 --> 58:00.240
But, um, the gaffer's just said he's gonna
put some beers on the coach and the plane.

58:00.319 --> 58:01.720
Yeah!

58:04.040 --> 58:06.080
He's equalled the record,
everyone's buzzing.

58:06.160 --> 58:07.799
But can you break the record?

58:07.879 --> 58:11.200
If it didn't have
a fairy-tale feel about it enough,

58:11.279 --> 58:14.919
the fact that it was Manchester United,
Ruud van Nistelrooy's team,

58:15.000 --> 58:17.919
that Jamie Vardy could score
his eleventh against,

58:18.000 --> 58:19.839
that just made it even sweeter.

58:19.919 --> 58:22.839
The toss is up,
the stage is set, the lights are on.

58:22.919 --> 58:27.240
These are the days of our lives,
ladies and gentlemen.

58:27.319 --> 58:30.000
It does not get better than this.

58:30.080 --> 58:34.480
Everything surrounding the game was…
Just felt huge. It felt massive.

58:35.480 --> 58:38.480
Everybody was just rooting for him
to go and get it.

58:39.600 --> 58:42.120
But nobody really spoke about it.

58:43.440 --> 58:45.759
It was almost like
we didn't wanna interrupt what he's doing

58:45.839 --> 58:47.319
and put too much pressure on one game.

58:49.440 --> 58:53.399
But, to be honest, he didn't
look like he was feeling any pressure.

58:55.120 --> 58:59.279
I remember the night before
the Man United game, I called him

58:59.879 --> 59:02.600
and just said, "Look, if you don't
break the record, it's okay."

59:02.680 --> 59:05.080
"You've got to ten.
It's an incredible achievement."

59:06.799 --> 59:08.240
He was just deadpan straight back.

59:08.319 --> 59:10.640
"Don't worry about tomorrow.
I'm getting one."

59:11.480 --> 59:14.680
Everybody was desperate to try
and make that pass for that goal.

59:16.600 --> 59:17.440
Just look for him.

59:17.520 --> 59:20.200
You almost sacrifice a goal
to make sure he scores.

59:21.960 --> 59:24.440
It was an evening game under the lights.

59:25.240 --> 59:27.560
Everybody was rooting for Vardy
to score that night.

59:29.160 --> 59:30.359
He's in.

59:30.440 --> 59:33.960
And Christian Fuchs clips that pass
straight into his path.

59:34.879 --> 59:35.919
Fuchs.

59:36.520 --> 59:38.759
What were you thinking
when Fuchs passed you the ball

59:38.839 --> 59:39.960
and you took the shot?

59:40.480 --> 59:41.799
Don't miss.

59:44.560 --> 59:46.200
Vardy!

59:47.399 --> 59:51.720
It's 11. It's heaven for Jamie Vardy.

59:52.480 --> 59:56.000
Hold the back page. Hold the front page.

59:56.080 --> 59:58.879
A Leicester player has smashed the record.

01:00:02.160 --> 01:00:05.200
When I scored,
the emotions were through the roof.

01:00:05.839 --> 01:00:07.200
Mine, fucking mine.

01:00:08.080 --> 01:00:10.000
I just… I get in the moment.

01:00:11.240 --> 01:00:13.240
We won't all get to break records,

01:00:13.319 --> 01:00:17.440
but seeing one of our close friends
and our teammates be able to do it,

01:00:17.520 --> 01:00:20.359
is huge,
and we were just so happy for him.

01:00:21.440 --> 01:00:23.080
We felt like we'd scored it.

01:00:23.160 --> 01:00:25.560
And the cheer was the loudest
I'd ever heard in the stadium.

01:00:28.319 --> 01:00:31.200
During the run,
everyone was fully behind me.

01:00:31.279 --> 01:00:34.799
It made me wanna do it, but… for them.

01:00:37.040 --> 01:00:40.120
He sent me a message from the dressing
room saying, "Well, that ended well."

01:00:42.879 --> 01:00:45.200
Ruud sent me a Tweet at the time.

01:00:45.720 --> 01:00:48.879
It was officially my record
at that moment in time.

01:00:50.160 --> 01:00:52.600
Yeah, it's pretty good. Pretty good.

01:00:53.720 --> 01:00:56.000
And after the run that he went on,

01:00:56.080 --> 01:00:59.120
we found ourselves
near the top of the table.

01:00:59.640 --> 01:01:01.120
It was amazing.

01:01:01.799 --> 01:01:04.600
My wife said to me, "You know,
you could win the Premier League."

01:01:04.680 --> 01:01:07.560
I just gave her a look
and said, "Don't be ridiculous."

01:01:11.520 --> 01:01:13.399
We had our Christmas do just after,

01:01:13.480 --> 01:01:15.520
so we went to jump on a flight.

01:01:15.600 --> 01:01:18.799
And then just as I landed,
got a phone call off my wife

01:01:18.879 --> 01:01:21.600
saying, "Your agent's trying
to get hold of you. You need to ring him."

01:01:21.680 --> 01:01:24.200
So I rang him up and he was like, um,

01:01:24.720 --> 01:01:27.799
"Just letting you know, there's a story
coming out in the papers tomorrow."

01:01:27.879 --> 01:01:31.399
So I'm like, "Well, about what?
I've not done anything wrong."

01:01:31.480 --> 01:01:32.759
And he's like,

01:01:32.839 --> 01:01:35.919
"No, they've, um…
They've found your real dad."

01:01:36.000 --> 01:01:37.839
And I was like, "What?"

01:01:39.240 --> 01:01:42.319
I'd had a call
from the MailOnline and they said,

01:01:42.399 --> 01:01:46.040
"We've had Jamie's father
at his game today."

01:01:46.120 --> 01:01:48.600
And I'm thinking, "His father?" Well…

01:01:48.680 --> 01:01:49.919
…his father wasn't at the game.

01:01:50.000 --> 01:01:53.799
And they went, "Oh no.
His biological father was at the game."

01:01:53.879 --> 01:01:55.960
I was like, "Mm. Right, okay."

01:01:56.040 --> 01:01:57.480
I didn't know if he knew.

01:01:58.919 --> 01:02:02.839
So I rung his mum first,
and she's crying her eyes out saying,

01:02:02.919 --> 01:02:06.480
"You have to stop this.
You have to stop this. This isn't fair."

01:02:07.080 --> 01:02:11.279
He's like, "Yeah, they've been
and done loads of research,

01:02:11.359 --> 01:02:14.960
and they've found your real dad,
tracked him down,

01:02:15.960 --> 01:02:18.040
paid for him to get to Swansea,

01:02:18.120 --> 01:02:21.680
paid for him to have his ticket,
so that they could get pictures of him

01:02:21.759 --> 01:02:23.200
in Swansea Stadium,

01:02:23.919 --> 01:02:26.440
and then done
a big, massive interview with him."

01:02:27.160 --> 01:02:31.520
So the press, the photographers, paparazzi
started turning up in Copenhagen

01:02:31.600 --> 01:02:33.359
to get pictures of Jamie.

01:02:33.440 --> 01:02:35.600
I'm thinking, "I need to get him home."

01:02:36.879 --> 01:02:40.279
Yeah, I flew back home
just to get away from it all.

01:02:40.960 --> 01:02:43.480
Trying to get my head around everything

01:02:43.560 --> 01:02:47.440
and work out
basically what the fuck was going on.

01:02:48.040 --> 01:02:51.000
Did you have any idea
that the dad that raised you

01:02:51.080 --> 01:02:53.160
wasn't your biological father?

01:02:53.680 --> 01:02:57.680
I had a slight inkling
from when I was younger.

01:02:57.759 --> 01:02:59.600
Used to get people saying,
"We know your dad,"

01:02:59.680 --> 01:03:04.080
but they were from completely
different areas, so I was like…

01:03:04.600 --> 01:03:06.680
And they'd go, "No, no, your real dad."

01:03:06.759 --> 01:03:10.640
I just used to bat it off, if I'm honest.
Like, didn't wanna know.

01:03:11.160 --> 01:03:14.399
But then, obviously, this came out
and it was like… "Fuck."

01:03:14.480 --> 01:03:17.799
I don't understand why
that was in the public's interest…

01:03:19.359 --> 01:03:20.879
…to traumatize someone.

01:03:21.759 --> 01:03:23.359
It was just cruel. It was cruel.

01:03:24.799 --> 01:03:27.839
You break a goal-scoring record
one day, everything's amazing,

01:03:27.919 --> 01:03:30.759
and the next day, the media
are looking to knock you down

01:03:30.839 --> 01:03:33.480
and derail all the great stuff
you've done.

01:03:33.560 --> 01:03:35.080
And it was… it was a tough time.

01:03:36.600 --> 01:03:39.399
I was then getting letters
sent to the club

01:03:39.480 --> 01:03:44.759
from my so-called dad's family,

01:03:46.040 --> 01:03:49.319
who were saying,
"If you do wanna speak, I'm…"

01:03:49.399 --> 01:03:51.080
"I'm basically your auntie."

01:03:52.720 --> 01:03:55.279
No. Not, uh… Not for me.

01:03:56.839 --> 01:03:59.240
-Has he tried reaching out?
-Not tried reaching out.

01:03:59.319 --> 01:04:00.759
Not tried doing anything.

01:04:00.839 --> 01:04:03.759
Probably got a bit of cash for doing
that paper, and he was happy, so…

01:04:04.319 --> 01:04:05.279
leave him to it.

01:04:06.960 --> 01:04:10.480
I was proper pissed off
because I just thought,

01:04:10.560 --> 01:04:15.319
how can anyone allow their child
to go through life thinking one thing

01:04:15.399 --> 01:04:19.680
without ever solidly confirming that
that thing isn't actually correct?

01:04:21.120 --> 01:04:22.680
It's just unforgivable.

01:04:25.200 --> 01:04:27.439
Yeah, it was…
it was tough hearing it all.

01:04:29.600 --> 01:04:33.439
Probably one of the hard…
harder things I've had to get through.

01:04:33.520 --> 01:04:36.319
I think I did have a pop at my mum.

01:04:37.359 --> 01:04:39.799
I thought I should've been told
if it was true.

01:04:40.319 --> 01:04:42.839
I've still--
I've still not heard it from them now.

01:04:43.680 --> 01:04:46.160
They've still not seen the kids.

01:04:47.120 --> 01:04:49.439
So I made the decision I was done with it.

01:04:52.120 --> 01:04:54.080
I've got my wife, got my children.

01:04:54.160 --> 01:04:55.640
-Was it good?
-Yeah.

01:04:56.319 --> 01:04:57.759
We're here, we're happy.

01:04:58.520 --> 01:04:59.520
-Hey.
-Yeah?

01:04:59.600 --> 01:05:01.839
Saw your volley.

01:05:01.919 --> 01:05:04.080
And that… that's all that matters.

01:05:04.160 --> 01:05:07.919
That legitimately is
all that matters to me.

01:05:08.000 --> 01:05:09.120
Making sure they're happy.

01:05:12.759 --> 01:05:15.759
After the news broke,
he had a game coming up.

01:05:16.359 --> 01:05:19.359
And I thought he is not
in the right frame of mind.

01:05:19.439 --> 01:05:25.120
And I was worried that
the built-up resentment and anger

01:05:25.200 --> 01:05:29.439
was gonna manifest in a really bad way.

01:05:32.359 --> 01:05:36.000
Could this derail him,
derail Leicester's season?

01:05:38.480 --> 01:05:39.319
I was worried.

01:05:46.399 --> 01:05:48.680
Mahrez! Vardy!

01:05:48.759 --> 01:05:50.040
But it didn't.

01:05:50.120 --> 01:05:55.560
He managed to switch off everything,
like it was not even going on.

01:05:56.279 --> 01:05:58.000
Where does he bury hurt?

01:05:59.000 --> 01:06:02.759
You know, where does he bury being sad?
I don't know where he puts it.

01:06:03.799 --> 01:06:06.160
He's had trauma,
and he crosses the white line,

01:06:06.240 --> 01:06:07.279
and he performs.

01:06:08.359 --> 01:06:09.640
Maybe that's the therapy.

01:06:10.680 --> 01:06:13.040
It's like I step over the white line
and it's like right,

01:06:13.120 --> 01:06:15.879
focus in, win, play well, score.

01:06:15.960 --> 01:06:18.359
I think that's how I've dealt with it all.

01:06:19.200 --> 01:06:23.080
His confidence
and the way that he played was infectious.

01:06:23.160 --> 01:06:25.120
He was the one
that was setting the tone, and…

01:06:26.240 --> 01:06:27.919
everyone had to follow that.

01:06:29.240 --> 01:06:31.399
Ricochet here has come the way of Vardy.

01:06:31.480 --> 01:06:33.200
Okazaki. They're in again.

01:06:33.279 --> 01:06:35.439
They scored again!

01:06:35.520 --> 01:06:37.600
Leicester are flying.

01:06:37.680 --> 01:06:40.439
This is Vardy who's in.
And around Butland!

01:06:42.120 --> 01:06:44.319
When they hit the summit
of the Premier League

01:06:44.399 --> 01:06:47.759
and you saw that on your screen,
it looked like a typo.

01:06:48.839 --> 01:06:51.279
I think we can do it.
It's destined for Leicester.

01:06:51.359 --> 01:06:53.040
We're top of the league!

01:06:53.120 --> 01:06:55.520
You're pinching yourself thinking,
"Should this be happening?"

01:06:55.600 --> 01:06:56.839
"Is this really happening?"

01:06:56.919 --> 01:06:59.640
All nationalities and faiths
have caught the football bug.

01:06:59.720 --> 01:07:03.720
And their success has created
local, adventurous entrepreneurs.

01:07:03.799 --> 01:07:06.480
At one takeaway,
you can get a Mighty Mahrez,

01:07:06.560 --> 01:07:07.799
or the Vardy Burger,

01:07:07.879 --> 01:07:09.879
and a Vardy coffee to go with it.

01:07:10.680 --> 01:07:12.560
We could never prepare,
we could never plan

01:07:12.640 --> 01:07:14.279
for how this had panned out this year.

01:07:14.359 --> 01:07:16.439
Um, I think everyone's
just enjoying it for what it is.

01:07:16.520 --> 01:07:18.000
We were just enjoying ourselves,

01:07:18.080 --> 01:07:20.480
just playing football
with smiles on our faces.

01:07:21.240 --> 01:07:24.560
And that's why the results were coming.
But the pundits were saying,

01:07:24.640 --> 01:07:27.520
"Oh, they'll lose to Liverpool,
then it's over."

01:07:28.040 --> 01:07:31.040
They had three fixtures
which looked particularly challenging.

01:07:31.120 --> 01:07:33.520
Liverpool, Manchester City, and Arsenal.

01:07:34.200 --> 01:07:36.960
If you lose three games at that stage,
you're gonna fall away.

01:07:37.919 --> 01:07:40.399
It would really mean
the end of your title dream.

01:07:40.919 --> 01:07:43.640
And everybody thought
that Leicester would fail this test.

01:07:43.720 --> 01:07:46.799
Riyad Mahrez. Over the top.
Will he find Vardy? Yes, he will.

01:07:46.879 --> 01:07:47.879
Vardy volley!

01:07:49.160 --> 01:07:51.839
Oh yes! The goal of the season!

01:07:51.919 --> 01:07:54.080
Jamie Vardy, what a finish!

01:07:54.160 --> 01:07:57.560
It was like, "Go fuck yourself.
Bang, there you go. 1-0, see you later."

01:07:57.640 --> 01:08:01.640
I've seen some goals. I'm not sure
I've ever seen a better goal this season.

01:08:01.720 --> 01:08:03.759
This is one of the best goals
I've ever seen.

01:08:08.000 --> 01:08:12.000
Leicester continue
to write this hugely unlikely tale

01:08:12.080 --> 01:08:14.160
to defy expectations.

01:08:14.240 --> 01:08:16.120
Beating Liverpool at home was one thing,

01:08:16.200 --> 01:08:19.200
but to win a title, you've gotta go
to the toughest places in the country

01:08:19.279 --> 01:08:20.240
and get a result.

01:08:20.319 --> 01:08:22.880
And at that point,
going to Manchester City

01:08:22.960 --> 01:08:25.319
was the biggest test
they would face that season.

01:08:25.840 --> 01:08:28.479
Manchester City
are one of the richest clubs in the world.

01:08:28.560 --> 01:08:30.439
They're buying up the best players.

01:08:30.520 --> 01:08:34.120
They're building a super team,
and they're dominating English football.

01:08:34.200 --> 01:08:37.040
And here's Leicester rocking up
at Manchester City

01:08:37.120 --> 01:08:40.920
with a squad that's nearly a tenth
of the cost of the Manchester City squad.

01:08:41.000 --> 01:08:44.599
It looked ominous, and it looked like one
that might be beyond them.

01:08:44.679 --> 01:08:47.599
If Leicester, in the next
three years, spend 500 million quid,

01:08:47.679 --> 01:08:49.880
they'll have a chance of winning.
Until that point, no.

01:08:49.960 --> 01:08:52.720
-But this is their best chance.
-They're not gonna win.

01:08:52.800 --> 01:08:54.639
No, but this is their best chance.

01:08:54.720 --> 01:08:56.960
Not in three years' time.
It's now, isn't it?

01:08:57.880 --> 01:09:00.720
Everyone was going Man City are gonna
beat Leicester, go back to the top,

01:09:00.800 --> 01:09:03.240
Leicester will fall down, and Man City
will run away with the league.

01:09:03.840 --> 01:09:06.080
Leicester were 5,000-to-1 outsiders

01:09:06.160 --> 01:09:08.319
to win the title
at the start of the campaign.

01:09:08.399 --> 01:09:10.359
Already a remarkable story.

01:09:10.439 --> 01:09:11.760
Who will have the happy ending

01:09:11.840 --> 01:09:14.639
in the final chapter
of this tale of two cities?

01:09:16.240 --> 01:09:19.479
There was no fear.
Everything was so relaxed.

01:09:19.560 --> 01:09:21.399
Bless you.

01:09:23.439 --> 01:09:25.679
Lifted in beyond Okazaki
and squeezed home!

01:09:26.479 --> 01:09:31.160
Robert Huth has scored for Leicester City
inside two and a half minutes.

01:09:31.920 --> 01:09:33.840
Riyad Mahrez!

01:09:33.920 --> 01:09:35.639
2-0 Leicester.

01:09:37.040 --> 01:09:40.359
Huth with the header.
It's three. Sensational.

01:09:40.880 --> 01:09:43.960
They're not just beating
the richest club in the land,

01:09:44.040 --> 01:09:47.120
they're ripping them up
on their own patch.

01:09:47.639 --> 01:09:50.560
The one thing
that we had over a lot of teams

01:09:50.639 --> 01:09:52.639
was just that togetherness.

01:09:53.120 --> 01:09:57.200
We had a group of lads that
would just do anything for each other.

01:09:58.200 --> 01:10:01.360
After the Man City game, the odds
on Leicester City becoming champions

01:10:01.440 --> 01:10:04.240
started to shift in their favor
for the first time.

01:10:04.320 --> 01:10:08.240
They can do it. We can win the league.

01:10:08.760 --> 01:10:10.840
I thought something special is happening.

01:10:10.920 --> 01:10:15.040
We could achieve the impossible,
but pressures started to creep up on us.

01:10:17.120 --> 01:10:19.599
We may never, ever
be in this position again.

01:10:19.679 --> 01:10:21.160
We can't let this slip now.

01:10:21.240 --> 01:10:25.480
We've got ourselves this far.
We have to take this opportunity.

01:10:25.560 --> 01:10:28.000
We have to, like,
snatch it with both hands.

01:10:28.080 --> 01:10:30.480
Leicester, having won at Manchester City,

01:10:30.560 --> 01:10:32.560
were winning at Arsenal.

01:10:33.080 --> 01:10:35.760
Then they lost a man.
Now they've lost a goal.

01:10:37.760 --> 01:10:40.120
Arsenal, with an extra man, need this.

01:10:40.200 --> 01:10:42.639
Özil clips it in. Welbeck!

01:10:44.200 --> 01:10:46.080
There's your fairy tale.

01:10:46.960 --> 01:10:50.360
You could weep for Leicester.
You could weep for them.

01:10:50.880 --> 01:10:56.040
But Arsenal have squeezed it all up
in the very last seconds.

01:10:56.120 --> 01:10:58.960
Everyone was probably like…
"Right, that could be it."

01:10:59.040 --> 01:11:00.800
"Their balloon's burst. It's done."

01:11:01.320 --> 01:11:04.720
But the Leicester crowd
are like we've just won the game 3-0.

01:11:04.800 --> 01:11:09.240
So, out of their seats, standing ovation.
Still going mad like we've won.

01:11:09.320 --> 01:11:11.240
Our fans were unbelievable.

01:11:11.320 --> 01:11:15.679
The one thing they love is seeing,
whatever the result, you give your all.

01:11:16.480 --> 01:11:18.880
And that's what we did.
We gave it everything.

01:11:20.000 --> 01:11:22.040
We're thinking, "We're top of the table."

01:11:22.120 --> 01:11:23.880
"If we get this amount of points
from that,

01:11:23.960 --> 01:11:25.560
we can actually win the league."

01:11:26.080 --> 01:11:29.880
When you sense that the fans have got
that belief, and the players have got it,

01:11:29.960 --> 01:11:34.040
that's when something, like, underneath
just starts bubbling up.

01:11:34.639 --> 01:11:37.120
Everyone was all of a sudden,

01:11:37.200 --> 01:11:39.880
at that moment in time,
turning into a Leicester fan.

01:11:39.960 --> 01:11:42.440
People who didn't know
about football knew about Leicester

01:11:42.520 --> 01:11:44.840
because it became a worldwide story.

01:11:44.920 --> 01:11:47.160
Everyone wanted Leicester to do it.

01:11:47.760 --> 01:11:50.880
Rather than it being corporate money
taking over everything,

01:11:50.960 --> 01:11:53.280
and just whoever has
the most expensive squad wins,

01:11:53.360 --> 01:11:57.240
it was almost like you know what, passion
and love for the game can still win.

01:11:57.320 --> 01:11:59.880
And I think that's what a lot of people
bought into it with.

01:11:59.960 --> 01:12:03.280
If Leicester do win,
it'll be the first time in 12 years

01:12:03.360 --> 01:12:06.400
that the Premier League
hasn't been won by the big beasts,

01:12:06.480 --> 01:12:09.840
Manchester United,
Manchester City, or Chelsea.

01:12:09.920 --> 01:12:13.960
If it's someone like us,
it gives people a dream

01:12:14.960 --> 01:12:17.080
that things can actually happen to them.

01:12:17.160 --> 01:12:20.280
We know you won't believe us
We know you won't believe us

01:12:20.360 --> 01:12:22.280
We know you won't believe us

01:12:22.360 --> 01:12:24.360
We're gonna win the league

01:12:24.440 --> 01:12:27.639
Something as a fan you never dreamed of.
You watch other clubs do it.

01:12:27.720 --> 01:12:29.960
It's never gonna be your turn
to win the Premier League.

01:12:30.040 --> 01:12:32.320
And suddenly it is. It just could be.

01:12:33.320 --> 01:12:37.320
Not just
outside the stadium, but inside as well.

01:12:37.400 --> 01:12:40.800
They feel that
they are within touching distance.

01:12:41.880 --> 01:12:44.840
You're so close to it,
and then things changed.

01:12:49.000 --> 01:12:49.960
Vardy.

01:12:50.040 --> 01:12:52.280
Um, had a ball put through…

01:12:52.360 --> 01:12:54.240
…and tangle of legs.

01:12:54.320 --> 01:12:56.240
Soon as I was on the ground,
I heard the whistle.

01:12:56.320 --> 01:12:59.160
I automatically thought
that he'd given a penalty.

01:13:00.200 --> 01:13:04.360
And then he started waddling in
and pointed the other way.

01:13:05.000 --> 01:13:08.480
Gave a free kick to them and…
and booked me for diving.

01:13:08.560 --> 01:13:12.400
Striker, Jamie Vardy,
controversially is sent off.

01:13:12.920 --> 01:13:14.840
The red mist kicked in, and…

01:13:15.720 --> 01:13:16.840
yeah, I called him a cunt.

01:13:19.880 --> 01:13:24.400
The news started coming out,
Vardy's gonna miss the next two games.

01:13:25.080 --> 01:13:29.320
How are Leicester gonna cope?
That's taking their main man out the team.

01:13:32.720 --> 01:13:34.520
'Cause of my reaction to the ref,

01:13:34.599 --> 01:13:37.160
I was gonna miss
Swansea at home and Man U away.

01:13:38.320 --> 01:13:41.840
After that, I thought it's done.
This is what everyone's waiting for.

01:13:43.320 --> 01:13:45.560
Timing was horrific. Like, horrific.

01:13:46.520 --> 01:13:49.480
Four games left,
and it was still really close.

01:13:50.080 --> 01:13:52.040
Tottenham were right behind us.

01:13:55.560 --> 01:13:58.160
Harry Kane,
Tottenham's main striker and captain,

01:13:58.240 --> 01:14:01.880
posted on social media
an image of some lions on the hunt,

01:14:02.480 --> 01:14:04.240
suggesting "We're coming for you."

01:14:06.639 --> 01:14:08.280
No one can replicate Vards,

01:14:08.360 --> 01:14:09.719
but the signs of a good team

01:14:09.800 --> 01:14:13.920
is can you cope
when the unexpected happens?

01:14:14.000 --> 01:14:15.800
The man they wish could play.

01:14:15.880 --> 01:14:18.679
They're missing 22 goals worth
of Jamie Vardy.

01:14:18.760 --> 01:14:21.040
Today, he is a fan.

01:14:21.120 --> 01:14:23.599
There was tension
going into the Swansea City game.

01:14:23.679 --> 01:14:26.280
They'd been denied their talisman striker.

01:14:27.040 --> 01:14:29.360
I'll be honest,
it was nerve-wracking. I hated it.

01:14:29.880 --> 01:14:33.360
He probably felt he was letting
us down, but we didn't see it like that.

01:14:33.440 --> 01:14:35.639
The reason we were in the position
was because of him.

01:14:35.719 --> 01:14:38.719
Right now, it's on us to make sure
we're in that position when you're back.

01:14:38.800 --> 01:14:40.000
To Mahrez.

01:14:40.800 --> 01:14:43.160
And Mahrez scores!

01:14:44.040 --> 01:14:45.960
I was just buzzing watching the lads.

01:14:46.560 --> 01:14:47.960
They did unbelievable.

01:14:48.040 --> 01:14:51.440
Gray. And lashed in by Albrighton!

01:14:51.520 --> 01:14:53.320
That shut everyone up.

01:14:53.400 --> 01:14:55.920
You can say what you want,
but we're not going anywhere.

01:14:56.520 --> 01:14:58.960
With Vardy, without Vardy,
we're a good side.

01:14:59.560 --> 01:15:02.920
Leicester's momentum is unstoppable.

01:15:04.360 --> 01:15:07.080
It begins to feel inevitable.

01:15:09.400 --> 01:15:12.160
Going into the Man U game,
if you win that,

01:15:12.240 --> 01:15:15.679
then nothing could stop us
from being crowned champions.

01:15:16.280 --> 01:15:18.880
Leicester have been doubted throughout.

01:15:18.960 --> 01:15:22.760
They've answered every awkward question
thrown in their direction.

01:15:23.280 --> 01:15:26.360
But it's not the easiest game
to go into knowing you need a win,

01:15:26.440 --> 01:15:28.040
especially at Old Trafford.

01:15:28.639 --> 01:15:31.200
Confident start, this,
by Manchester United.

01:15:31.280 --> 01:15:32.120
It's Lingard.

01:15:32.200 --> 01:15:34.000
They were all over us,
first 15, 20 minutes.

01:15:34.080 --> 01:15:35.520
You could almost feel like

01:15:35.599 --> 01:15:38.719
they were like, "Who's this team,
thinking they can win at our stadium?"

01:15:38.800 --> 01:15:40.880
"Especially not Leicester.
They're not doing it."

01:15:40.960 --> 01:15:42.639
There's Martial!

01:15:46.400 --> 01:15:49.480
There's a lot of wrestling going on.
And Morgan nipped in.

01:15:49.560 --> 01:15:52.360
The goal where I scored against Man United

01:15:52.440 --> 01:15:56.480
was a special moment, running back
towards the crowd and pointing at my mum.

01:15:56.560 --> 01:16:00.719
The captain, Wes Morgan,
runs to the Leicester fans.

01:16:04.719 --> 01:16:07.280
Didn't get the win
to be champions that day,

01:16:07.360 --> 01:16:09.679
but it was another point
in the right direction.

01:16:11.440 --> 01:16:15.520
Even though Leicester got a point, it left
a window of opportunity for Tottenham.

01:16:15.599 --> 01:16:18.599
'Cause, mathematically, they could
still become champions themselves.

01:16:19.200 --> 01:16:22.599
The ultimate moment
will be delayed for Leicester,

01:16:22.679 --> 01:16:25.480
but the onus now on their rivals Spurs.

01:16:25.560 --> 01:16:28.560
The very next day,
Tottenham had to go to Chelsea and win

01:16:28.639 --> 01:16:31.000
to keep the title race alive.

01:16:31.080 --> 01:16:35.760
If Tottenham didn't get a result
against Chelsea,

01:16:36.280 --> 01:16:37.520
then we'll be crowned champions

01:16:37.599 --> 01:16:39.480
'cause mathematically
they couldn't catch us.

01:16:41.960 --> 01:16:44.400
Danny Drinkwater!

01:16:44.480 --> 01:16:47.840
Vards was like, "Guys,
we're gonna watch the game at my house."

01:16:50.719 --> 01:16:52.200
Danny, Danny Drinkwater!

01:16:52.280 --> 01:16:53.560
He calls me.

01:16:53.639 --> 01:16:57.000
He goes, "All the lads are coming back
to watch the Chelsea game."

01:16:58.639 --> 01:17:00.719
And I was like, "What, everyone?"

01:17:00.800 --> 01:17:02.800
Yeah, thought it'd be a great idea.

01:17:05.679 --> 01:17:08.200
Word had already clearly
started to get around

01:17:08.280 --> 01:17:11.400
because fans start
turning up at our house,

01:17:11.480 --> 01:17:13.560
standing outside of the gate.

01:17:13.639 --> 01:17:16.719
Add I was like, "Whoa, they--
Leicester have not done it yet."

01:17:18.480 --> 01:17:22.560
It is a night when
Leicester's like a child on Christmas Eve,

01:17:22.639 --> 01:17:24.480
flirts with the butterflies,

01:17:24.560 --> 01:17:28.840
and thrills at the proximity
of glorious utopia.

01:17:28.920 --> 01:17:32.520
We needed a draw or Chelsea to win.

01:17:33.400 --> 01:17:35.760
And then no one can catch us
if that happened.

01:17:36.280 --> 01:17:38.120
But if Tottenham beat Chelsea,

01:17:38.200 --> 01:17:40.880
they'd catch up two points on us.

01:17:40.960 --> 01:17:44.599
And you go to the following week.
It starts getting a bit edgy.

01:17:44.679 --> 01:17:47.679
This has never happened in world sport.

01:17:47.760 --> 01:17:54.320
A 5,000-to-1 shot has never won a title,
a race, or an encounter.

01:17:54.400 --> 01:17:57.480
Leicester City Football Club
are on the verge

01:17:57.560 --> 01:18:02.440
of rewriting local, national,
and international history books.

01:18:02.520 --> 01:18:05.599
Everyone's like, "Yeah, pass me a beer.
I… I need one."

01:18:05.679 --> 01:18:08.080
"I'm too nervous.
I can't get through it otherwise."

01:18:08.679 --> 01:18:10.400
Kane!

01:18:10.480 --> 01:18:11.320
Scores!

01:18:12.679 --> 01:18:14.880
And Tottenham are alive! They're still--

01:18:14.960 --> 01:18:17.520
Right, it's fine. There's still time.

01:18:17.599 --> 01:18:19.599
-Oh no.
-No!

01:18:19.679 --> 01:18:24.719
Son scores. 2-0 Tottenham
on the cusp of halftime.

01:18:25.320 --> 01:18:27.320
Everyone's just sat there, like, silence.

01:18:27.400 --> 01:18:29.440
Okay, it's not gonna happen tonight.

01:18:30.280 --> 01:18:34.440
But then second half starts,
and Chelsea got one back.

01:18:34.520 --> 01:18:37.120
Lashes Chelsea back into it.

01:18:37.200 --> 01:18:40.679
I think the whole country,
apart from Tottenham fans,

01:18:40.760 --> 01:18:42.200
wanted us to win the league.

01:18:42.800 --> 01:18:45.240
Chelsea wanted to stop Tottenham
winning the league,

01:18:45.320 --> 01:18:47.440
and obviously do it for Claudio as well.

01:18:48.160 --> 01:18:51.000
And then Eden Hazard…

01:18:51.080 --> 01:18:53.960
…came up with something spectacular.

01:18:54.760 --> 01:18:56.840
Diego Costa. Eden Hazard!

01:18:56.920 --> 01:18:59.240
Glorious goal.

01:18:59.840 --> 01:19:01.280
Leicester's goal.

01:19:01.800 --> 01:19:04.520
We all went crazy.
Started jumping on each other.

01:19:04.599 --> 01:19:05.560
But the game's not over.

01:19:06.920 --> 01:19:09.400
Brace yourself, Leicester. Brace yourself.

01:19:09.920 --> 01:19:11.160
It's happening.

01:19:12.000 --> 01:19:14.000
It is about to happen.

01:19:14.080 --> 01:19:15.480
-Blow it!
-Blow it.

01:19:15.560 --> 01:19:16.920
Ooh.

01:19:17.000 --> 01:19:20.320
The full-time whistle
has gone at Stamford Bridge.

01:19:20.400 --> 01:19:24.560
Leicester City
are the Premier League champions.

01:19:28.760 --> 01:19:33.240
Seeing that full-time whistle go,
I was just buzzing. Absolutely buzzing.

01:19:38.520 --> 01:19:41.599
We was all laughing at each other,
going, "What? We've won the league."

01:19:41.679 --> 01:19:42.960
"Like, this is incredible."

01:19:43.040 --> 01:19:48.840
Champions! Champions! Olé! Olé! Olé!

01:19:50.480 --> 01:19:54.639
The emotions just erupt out of you,
and you just can't believe it's happened.

01:19:57.560 --> 01:20:00.840
It was just the best feeling.
Best feeling.

01:20:04.800 --> 01:20:08.840
Leicester are the English Premier League
champions. Can you believe it?

01:20:10.679 --> 01:20:14.679
Outside their stadium,
Leicester fans partied long into the night

01:20:14.760 --> 01:20:18.200
to celebrate one of football's
most remarkable feats.

01:20:18.280 --> 01:20:19.320
Yeah, we've done it!

01:20:19.400 --> 01:20:21.840
Olé, champions! Olé! Olé…

01:20:21.920 --> 01:20:25.160
There's no doubt
that is the greatest achievement,

01:20:25.240 --> 01:20:26.920
I think, in the history of our game.

01:20:27.000 --> 01:20:28.160
What Leicester have done…

01:20:28.240 --> 01:20:30.280
…is give inspiration

01:20:30.360 --> 01:20:35.240
to every manager, player, supporter
that one day, that could be them.

01:20:35.320 --> 01:20:38.320
It's amazing.
We're never gonna do this again.

01:20:40.520 --> 01:20:42.800
This is unique.

01:20:44.120 --> 01:20:47.200
A modern-day football miracle.

01:20:48.960 --> 01:20:51.560
They have blown their rivals away.

01:20:52.960 --> 01:20:56.160
They have blown us all away, in truth.

01:20:57.200 --> 01:20:59.760
Premier League Champions 2016,

01:21:00.400 --> 01:21:03.480
the amazing Leicester City.

01:21:21.599 --> 01:21:22.800
It was unbelievable.

01:21:22.880 --> 01:21:26.960
That moment there, I think,
is every footballer's dream.

01:21:54.440 --> 01:21:56.599
It wasn't a fluke for Vards.

01:21:56.679 --> 01:22:02.920
He went on to achieve Golden Boot,
FA Cup, Community Shield,

01:22:03.000 --> 01:22:04.120
Team of the Seasons.

01:22:05.719 --> 01:22:08.320
Coming from his beginnings,

01:22:09.000 --> 01:22:11.240
how late he got into the game,

01:22:12.120 --> 01:22:15.960
I don't think there's anyone out there
that's ever accomplished that much,

01:22:16.040 --> 01:22:17.520
considering the circumstances.

01:22:20.280 --> 01:22:22.920
I walk in here, it's just achievements.

01:22:23.560 --> 01:22:27.080
But personally,
it's definitely the keeping grounded,

01:22:28.120 --> 01:22:29.920
don't let yourself get carried away.

01:22:31.080 --> 01:22:35.160
Like, if things had been different,
there'd have been none of this here, so…

01:22:36.639 --> 01:22:40.520
I would love Jamie to be able
to just be a bit more reflective

01:22:40.599 --> 01:22:44.280
on how incredible of a career

01:22:45.520 --> 01:22:47.599
that he has and that he continues to have.

01:22:47.679 --> 01:22:50.800
But he's so dismissive
of what he's achieved.

01:22:51.840 --> 01:22:55.360
I'll think about all that
when I'm retired, when I'm done.

01:22:56.960 --> 01:22:58.520
All the stuff like that

01:22:59.040 --> 01:23:01.480
is gonna be something
that'll get thought about quite a lot

01:23:01.560 --> 01:23:04.280
once I do eventually hang my boots up.

01:23:04.800 --> 01:23:06.960
When do you think you'll retire?

01:23:07.040 --> 01:23:10.360
Fucking hell, that's the big
million-dollar question. Um…

01:23:11.719 --> 01:23:12.679
I don't know.

01:23:14.560 --> 01:23:18.040
I'm a firm believer of
your legs will tell you when it's time.

01:23:18.560 --> 01:23:21.240
I've still got that hunger,
I've still got that drive.

01:23:23.040 --> 01:23:27.040
Leicester, right back from day one,
they gave me the shot.

01:23:27.560 --> 01:23:30.800
And I think I've repaid them
the whole way.

01:23:34.639 --> 01:23:39.840
We have got some huge breaking news.
Jamie Vardy is gonna leave Leicester City

01:23:39.920 --> 01:23:42.960
at the end of the season
after 13 years at the club.

01:23:43.040 --> 01:23:45.520
It's finally time to call it a day.

01:23:45.599 --> 01:23:47.120
I think the timing is right.

01:23:48.240 --> 01:23:50.360
Just wanna sincerely thank you all.

01:23:50.440 --> 01:23:53.960
Leicester will always, always
have a massive place in my heart.

01:23:54.040 --> 01:23:58.080
This is my goodbye,
but you will see me again soon, I promise.

01:24:02.639 --> 01:24:05.040
When will you know
which club you're going to?

01:24:05.120 --> 01:24:06.160
Um…

01:24:06.679 --> 01:24:08.840
-I'll know…
-Yeah?

01:24:08.920 --> 01:24:09.960
…when you stop asking.

01:24:11.040 --> 01:24:12.840
Not gonna not tell you.

01:24:17.400 --> 01:24:18.760
I'm dreading this one.

01:24:19.840 --> 01:24:21.760
It's actually nice.

01:24:21.840 --> 01:24:24.080
It's what? Oh, is this one a nice one?

01:24:24.560 --> 01:24:25.599
Yeah?

01:24:28.639 --> 01:24:32.400
Well, that's not very nice, is it?
What do you want to put me in the bin for?

01:24:32.480 --> 01:24:34.639
Only if you score a goal.

01:24:36.639 --> 01:24:37.560
Cheers, Mins.

01:24:38.280 --> 01:24:40.240
Did Daddy a nice card? Did you?

01:24:40.320 --> 01:24:42.520
Till it said you better score
or you're going in the bin.

01:24:42.599 --> 01:24:44.679
Oh no. Did you actually?

01:24:44.760 --> 01:24:45.599
Yeah.

01:24:51.080 --> 01:24:53.080
-Ready? Yeah?
-Yeah.

01:24:53.160 --> 01:24:54.360
One last time?

01:24:55.639 --> 01:24:56.480
Yeah.

01:24:58.040 --> 01:24:58.880
Love you.

01:25:02.719 --> 01:25:05.719
Today's Jamie Vardy's
last game for Leicester.

01:25:05.800 --> 01:25:10.440
His 500th appearance
and targeting a 200th goal for the club.

01:25:34.639 --> 01:25:38.480
Brilliant run here.
James Justin. Jamie Vardy!

01:25:46.800 --> 01:25:49.560
A 200th goal for the club.

01:25:49.639 --> 01:25:53.280
There was just no way
this wouldn't be his day.

01:25:53.360 --> 01:25:58.360
Leicester's number nine, Jamie Vardy!

01:26:01.639 --> 01:26:04.880
Thank you for taking myself
and my family in as one of your own.

01:26:04.960 --> 01:26:06.920
And I hope I've repaid everything for you.

01:26:13.520 --> 01:26:16.160
What odds would you give
Jamie Vardy to do what he did?

01:26:16.240 --> 01:26:19.560
I say a million to one,
but I don't think it's a million to--

01:26:19.639 --> 01:26:21.840
It could be a billion to one,
could be ten billion to one.

01:26:22.920 --> 01:26:27.040
That is, in my humble opinion, the biggest
sporting underdog story of all time,

01:26:27.120 --> 01:26:30.040
to come from where he's come from,
to achieve what he's achieved,

01:26:30.120 --> 01:26:32.160
with everything
that he's had to deal with.

01:26:35.160 --> 01:26:40.360
I couldn't tell you how I did it,
how it happened, why it happened.

01:26:40.880 --> 01:26:44.400
But it's… It is crazy.

01:26:48.120 --> 01:26:51.719
But I know full well that working hard…

01:26:52.880 --> 01:26:56.800
…never giving up, and having
the right people supporting you…

01:26:59.080 --> 01:27:01.120
to come home, you got a family
that loves you,

01:27:01.200 --> 01:27:03.240
wants you to be the best that you can be,

01:27:04.400 --> 01:27:06.040
you become what you believe.

01:27:08.400 --> 01:27:09.880
I'm definitely proof of that.
you can be,