“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?”
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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)