Chapter 1: What challenges did Jamie Vardy face before becoming a professional footballer?
Coming up on today's show... How was it when you were just on that factory floor? Had you almost given up at that point, or not?
I was there for three, four years. It was tough, it really was. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that was part of the journey. Never regretted anything about that.
How long into it was it when you not thought you could win the league, but started to think, that's a good team, eh?
The Man City away game. That's when I actually thought something could happen here.
Same, same, same, more than that one.
And everyone was around your gaff. I had to sit on the floor because Vas, Marcin Wasilewski, kept fucking slapping me on my tattoo.
This is the side of the title winning that everyone needs to know.
Yeah, it's literally how it was. Winning the league, winning the FA Cup, being in the Champions League quarter-finals, stuff like that.
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Chapter 2: How did Jamie's mentality change during Leicester's title-winning season?
No one can take it away from me. I'm just like, I've done it. It's mine.
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I'll just go with the top one, Brighton.
How? Bournemouth. I can tell you now that Alan is wrong. Who? Micah is wrong.
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The correct answer is Fulham. The closest to getting the number of goals that Fulham scored from the bench wins. 14.
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Chapter 3: What were the defining moments during Leicester's historic Premier League win?
Micah? I'll go 17. Well, Alan, 14. You were absolutely just three away because Micah with 17 is spot on. Spot on!
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I'm joined today by someone very special, definitely someone very special in our household. He's, how do we describe him? A Leicester legend, one of our heroes, Jamie Vardy. Jamie, lovely to speak to you. You too.
Chapter 4: How did Jamie Vardy celebrate Leicester's Premier League victory?
You're doing a documentary for Netflix. I've just come down from the North East and I watched it on the train and I genuinely enjoyed it. Have you seen it yet? No. It's not out until I think early May. You've not seen it? No. So I got a view before you.
I think quite a few have viewed it already. Are you scared to watch it? I wouldn't say it's scared. I'm one of them. I'd rather, once it's out, just watch it and see if I remember stuff that I've actually said in it.
He didn't say that much. You're not too talkative.
Chapter 5: What role did Nigel Pearson play in Jamie's career at Leicester City?
No. Generally as a person, I don't think. No. But you're kind of short and sharp. A bit like the way we play.
Yeah, it's just, I don't think I ever get used to that side of things.
You've always been uncomfortable around the media side of it and there's a bit in the early days when you're doing interviews because you didn't have the media training that so many players obviously get because you came pretty much late to professional football. Do you think that's perhaps why you look and there was lots of times where you used to just go, I don't like this.
I can't be arsed with being here at all. But I think nowadays it's more you have to be so careful with actually what you're saying. Yeah. Because when you're doing an interview, for instance, after you've just played a game or whatever... You're emotional. Emotional, body's still pumping. You're not really...
Chapter 6: How did Jamie Vardy react to being called up for the England national team?
thinking before you speak sometimes, then I think it can get you in a lot of trouble nowadays. So I think if you see most of my interviews, they're really, they're monotone, probably the same answer every time, just slightly worded different. Well, I hope you can do a bit better for us. I'm all right now.
I think I'm at the stage where I'm just past Gary. There was a lovely bit right at the start. They go to you, you know, what do you think people, in one word, what would people say about you? And then you go, I'm going to offer a little bit. And then they go and cut around the various talking heads that are in it. You know, people like Wes Morgan, et cetera.
And they all give a different word and it comes back to you and you went, probably twat. You don't honestly think that, do you? I think they might have said that at some point in your career and every team you probably played against at some point. I actually put the question to one or two of my boys and it was a mixture of hero, legend, shithouse, but with in brackets, blah, shithouse.
Because they're all Leicester fans.
Chapter 7: What was Jamie's experience like during the FA Cup and Champions League campaigns?
I think that's the thing. I think with Leicester fans, it would be very different.
Yeah.
Opposition fans.
No, I think you're wrong there now, Jamie. I think there would have been a stage of your career, but I think now there's a genuine love for you from all football fans. I think, obviously, they know you wind up crowds sometimes with your celebrations, etc. I think they like it. The thing is with that as well, it's all, it's not thought of.
You never thought before a game, I know what I'm going to do today.
It's all just off the cuff in that moment. Whether I've been abused a bit off the fans or not. Normally depends on how the celebration goes. Like the Eagles? Yeah, the one at Palace.
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Chapter 8: What does Jamie Vardy envision for his future in football?
Yeah, I was getting abused by the Palace fans. Yeah.
So where did you suddenly get that from?
I don't know. I just started running off and see a few of the fans out of the corner of your eyes stood up giving you the middle finger. That was far out, here we go.
There's a sense throughout the documentary that you like to prove people wrong and I suppose that connects a little bit with the celebration.
Yeah, 100%. Yeah. 100%. Listen, there's always, with whatever you do, there are always going to be doubters. It doesn't matter who you are, you're going to have your doubters. And I think with me, it's just, that's the main thing. You doubt me, okay.
You never doubted yourself, not in terms of your ability, but... No, not on that side. Yeah. But the only thing is, you didn't really believe that you would be a professional. There's points in your lifetime, because obviously you came late.
Yes. It was... them stages were quite... It's not the normal route. No, no, it's really not. The normal route is you're in the academy all the way through, you go on to 17s, 18s, reserves, then you get to the first team if you're good enough. But that's just been me. Nothing's ever known.
Why do you think you didn't go down that normal route? At school, you were tiny or something?
I mean, you're not... Yeah, I was really... I think I was... 150 centimetres, I think I was, at like 15, 16. I was similar, actually.
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