What They're Saying: Stocksbridge Park Steels chairman Allen Bethel

• by Soccer America , Nov 27, 2015

“I can’t believe what I’ve been seeing on Saturday nights. He’s always on his own. Why can’t the Premier League, with all those supposedly good defenders, stop him?”

-- Allen Bethel, the chairman of Stocksbridge Park Steels, which was in the eighth division of English soccer went it signed 21-year-old Jamie Vardy in 2008 for about $160 a week. Vardy is now at Leicester City in the English Premier League, where he has scored in 10 straight games, equaling the 12-year-old Premier League record set by Ruud van Nistelrooy. (Wall Street Journal)