Player Profile: Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy
By Chris Dunlavy
Jamie Vardy has already enjoyed a career that defied logic. Now, at the age of 37, he is defying expectations too.
When Leicester tumbled into the Championship and appointed Enzo Maresca as head coach, it appeared that Vardy’s days were numbered.
What value would Maresca, a coach who asks his forwards to drop deep and link play, place on an ageing and injury-prone striker whose legendary reputation was forged as a speed demon who played on the shoulder?
Such presumptions only hardened when the former England man was benched ...