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Jamie Vardy Documentary

The football aspect of the documentary is very good. His individual achievements and the contribution he made to Leicester City's success are phenomenal. He's the epitome of a winner.
More so when you consider how late in life he came to Leicester City and where he had played prior to joining them.
The personal stuff is less engrossing. He's a lad who had a few issues but he comes across as someone who is pretty self aware.
 

contrarian said:
Well he always tried very hard. If he had been as good as you infer he would have been snatched up by a top 6 club once Leicester started their fall
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There's contrarian and there's mental. He won both major domestic trophies with a bang average midlands club having kept them from being relegated the year before they won the league. And this from a player who was at the Yorkshire equivalent of Blyth Spartans when he was 24.

Not many away fans will have pleasant memories as a player, as he spent his later career scoring lots of goals against opponents and he was a very aggressive player. But as a bloke he just looks like a normal person spat out by the football machine as a teenager, and then very unusually climbing back into it and up to the elite level after spending his late teens and early 20s doing what most lads do, outside any public scrutiny. That "chat shit get banged" furore for example referred to a tweet he'd sent when he was a non-league player, 5 years before the story blew up.

I liked the doc and its worth watching. He seems to have a good relationship with his Mrs, who comes over better than the way she is usually portrayed, but it doesn't touch on her insane legal battle with Coleen Rooney. The one weird bit for me was that he'd gone no contact with his mam and dad off the back of the papers finding his biological father - I know families are complicated and there's probably more to that story than the 5 minutes in the doc, but seems an extreme response.
 
Joebaker1 said:
The football aspect of the documentary is very good. His individual achievements and the contribution he made to Leicester City's success are phenomenal. He's the epitome of a winner.
More so when you consider how late in life he came to Leicester City and where he had played prior to joining them.
The personal stuff is less engrossing. He's a lad who had a few issues but he comes across as someone who is pretty self aware.
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I quite liked "the inbetweeners". His group of mates from way back when who seem fairly unimpressed that their daft mate has become the premier league golden boot, and just rip into him the entire time.
 
Shit hot quick, never gave the keeper an easy game, would of been great feeding off another tall forward. Stewart/Vardy in their prime.
 
Charver turned professional footballer with a lass that f***ing loves the attention. Don't fancy watching it at all.

He was obviously very good but I can't help but feel he spent about 3-4 years being in the right place at the right time by pure luck. This obviously isn't true, but it's what it felt like IMO.
 
I despise her which initially put me off watching it. Putting her to one side, what a fantastic story and guess what, a human bring is flawed.
 
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