'Full throttle' and 'Skittles vodka'
Few could have envisaged the impact Jamie Vardy would make at the King Power Stadium, especially after five goals in his first season in the Championship.
"He was always joking and always full throttle in everything he did," said former team-mate Mark Schwarzer.
"Nobody saw what Leicester was going to do [winning the league in 2016]. When he first signed, apparently when he turned up he was terrible at training.
"His touch was horrendous, it was all over the place, and they all thought 'what have we just signed?'.
"Then he went away in the summer and really worked on his game. Apparently he was a different player when he returned back in that 2015-16 season."
Vardy put that improvement down to small changes. Before games, throughout the day, he started drinking three cans of Red Bull and a double espresso and eating a cheese and ham omelette with baked beans.
He also drank port from a Lucozade bottle the evening before matches during the 2015-16 season - having stopped with the Skittles vodka which was a previous favourite tipple and involved dissolving the sweets in the alcohol.
It helped him score 24 goals to win Leicester the league, and he went on to earn the Premier League's Golden Boot in 2019–20, becoming the oldest player to lift the award.
Title-winning Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri described Vardy as "a fantastic horse" back in 2016 as the Foxes closed in on the Premier League.
The veteran may not be a thoroughbred any more but he has been synonymous with Leicester's rise - and fall - as their last title winner to leave the King Power Stadium.
It was the end of an era and Leicester must find a new talisman. They will never find someone quite like Vardy again.
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