Home and AwayJamie Vardy may feel even worse if Leicester fail to win Premier League
Referees should make it absolutely clear to players that they will enforce the law when it comes to infringements in the penalty area
If the much-mooted Jamie Vardy movie by football biopic scripter Adrian Butchart gets the green light, casting editors will have their work cut out.
Trying to locate a thespian who can carry off a broad Yorkshire accent, able to portray a working-class rough diamond with twinkle toes, convicted of assault, been fitted with an electronic tag, caught on video making a racial slur and knocked into Premier League shape by Nigel Pearson (played by Vinnie Jones, surely), won’t be easy.
If not Daniel Craig (too smooth), Michael Caine (too old), Jason Statham (too chiselled) or One Direction’s Louis Tomlinson (too pretty), then who?
[Vardy] demonstrated last week against West Ham his flair for simulating a man being mown down Spaghetti Western fashion, an unconvincing dive that saw him sent off
Vardy could, of course, play himself in his tale of villain turned hero, or pending the season’s outcome, villain turned hero returned to villainhood.
He demonstrated last week against West Ham his flair for simulating a man being mown down Spaghetti Western fashion, an unconvincing dive that saw him sent off, resulting in at least a one-match ban that could cost Leicester dear.
Vardy will miss Sunday’s crucial clash against Swansea and will likely incur another match ban if not a trio for his thuggish reaction to his dismissal.
If Leicester lose their edge because of their marksman’s reckless absenteeism, then Vardy will be ultimately guilty of crashing the fairytale title race.