Jamie Vardy

And I've kicked the ball over the wall, gone round to get it and she's put a knife through it.

Oh.

Because she said I played football in the backyard too much and...

Like I said, not proud of it, but she just had her single glazed windows took out and was getting double glazed windows put in.

So I threw a stone for it.

As you do.

No.

It was literally just that.

If I didn't have a football, I needed to be playing.

Yeah, school, Sundays, obviously signing for an academy.

That takes the school football away.

which you've got it about, but understand, because they don't want you getting injured, they want you available for the Sheffield Wednesdays Academy.

Still wanted to play football, obviously with school, but that's just one of them things.

How big a blow was it when you got released or they didn't take you on at Sheffield Wednesdays?

No, it was massive.

Yeah.

Massive.

that's the thing at the end of the world at the time yeah you're going in you're training every week every week every week and you get to a certain age you think I've been doing football every week now constantly this is going to be me so I didn't if I'm honest I didn't really pay much attention to school which that is a regret because I think my career could have gone a completely different way might not have happened so to have then if it had gone that way not had football

not at any grades, you're in a sticky situation.

But luckily, football worked out.