Leicester: Jamie Vardy’s pre-season preparation is so Jamie Vardy

Some details have been revealed about the unusual pre-season preparations of Leicester City’s legendarily iconic striker Jamie Vardy.

This is so Vardy, and not just because the story has a peculiar element but also due to an endearing aspect, too. Basically the veteran goalscorer favoured drinking beers on the sofa and spending time with his close family as opposed to constantly venturing intrepidly on luxury holidays around the world during the off-season.

According to trusted Leicester City Football Club source and The Athletics’s Foxes expert, Rob Tanner, the No.9 spent his summer partaking in lager or bitter on his couch.

Tanner watched Vardy score the winner and only goal of the LCFC’s initial Premier League match of the 2021/22 campaign versus Midlands rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers and asserts that the latter’s relaxing, stress free vacation period as the main reason why the Fox is now flying in the English top-flight once more.

At age-34 the former England international is currently solely focussed on the King Power team – and it is nice to hear he’s getting in the rest he needs to still supply many finishes at elite level.

Although, it is unlikely that Vardy’s fitness and conditioning coaches concur with regular alcohol consumption. But Vards is indeed a ‘regular guy’ as he would himself attest to: the Sheffield-born player never wanted to be classed as a celebrity or any different to everyone else. An endearing trait if ever there were one.

Leicester City striker’s history of being unique

Tanner added that Vardy’s wolf howl following scoring was not simply to antagonise the Wolves supporters but signified his eternal youth. Ex-Fox Ritchie De Laet divulged his one-time teammate’s love of “foreign insults, fries, beer” in the past. In addition, the Fox had a beer named after him; and, of course, he used to consume Red Bull and port the night prior to games.