Tottenham legend wants Leicester relegated as Jamie Vardy nears record

Tottenham Hotspur legend Jermain Defoe has joked he wants Leicester City relegated, so Jamie Vardy doesn't beat his record.

Jamie Vardy is ageing like a fine wine. The Leicester City legend who needed to prove himself to absolutely no one this season, is defying the usual nature of ageing - He is only getting better.

This season, Vardy has already doubled his goals scored in the Premier League (6), compared to his last season in the league (3), where Leicester were relegated.

Perhaps even more impressively, Vardy has scored 142 Premier League goals in 321 appearances. A record this impressive sees Vardy as the 15th all-time leading goal-scorer. With 20 more goals, he would enter the top 10, knocking Jermain Defore off the pedestal.

Tottenham legend wants Leicester relegated as Jamie Vardy nears record

Speaking to Sky Sports, Jermain Defoe joked that if Leicester City were relegated from the Premier League this season, he would at least keep his place in the top ten goal-scorers.

In his own words (quoted by Leicester Mercury): ""Well... [If Leicester are relegated this season], I'm hanging on to that top ten."

Fine chance of that, Jermain! The Foxes are a different outfit under the new manager Ruud van Nistelrooy and they are showing a new-found desire to never give up. Hopefully, this mentality remains within the squad from now until the end of the season.

With four points from an available six in his opening two games, Ruud van Nistelrooy is setting himself up in great stead. His infectious personality and never-say-never attitude is clearly rubbing off on the players, too.

Fans from all over, not only Foxes fans, were eager to see how Ruud van Nistelrooy and Jamie Vardy worked together. In a serendipitous manner, it was Vardy who broke Ruud's record in the Premier League, with 11 consecutive goals being the new standard to reach.

However, Ruud took the broken record well at the time. He congratulated Vardy and said that the Leicester legend deserved to be number one. Now, it is the two of them who are working together.

Hey... Vardy has now scored in two consecutive Premier League games. There's only ten to go before he breaks his own record - What was it I said about never saying never?

That won't sit well with Jermain.

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