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BBC News
14 hours ago
- Entertainment
- BBC News
🎧 Reflecting on Vardy's early Foxes years
Thirteen years, 500 appearances and 200 goals ago, Jamie Vardy arrived at Leicester City as a record-breaking became the first £1m non-league footballer when he was brought to the King Power Stadium from Fleetwood in second episode of BBC Radio Leicester's podcast series – Havin' a party: The Jamie Vardy story – focuses on how the striker came to grips with the huge step up with Leicester leapt from the fifth tier of English football to the second when he joined the then Championship former Foxes team-mates Neil Danns, Gary Taylor-Fletcher, Conrad Logan as well as ex-goalkeeping coach Mike Stowell and a number of supporters share their memories of what it was like to see the forward get used to life in the Championship before taking the step up to the Premier League in Albrighton, who played alongside Vardy when Leicester won the Premier League title and FA Cup in later years, is co-host of the podcast and talks about the Foxes' narrow escape from relegation in 2015 and how it would set them up for future glories.
BBC News
19 hours ago
- Sport
- BBC News
🎧 Having a party - the rise of Vardy
With the Jamie Vardy party at Leicester City now over, the striker's remarkable journey to becoming the greatest Foxes goalscorer of all time has been chronicled by BBC Radio winger Marc Albrighton, who won the Premier League title and lifted the FA Cup alongside the England forward, joins Leicester City commentator Owynn Palmer-Atkin in hosting the five-part one starts at the beginning of Vardy's remarkable football journey and the disappointment of being released by boyhood club Sheffield Wednesday as a time playing for a college team after that was followed by a life-shaping spell at Stocksbridge Park Steels – where he played for six months with an electronic tag on his ankle after being convicted of assault.A 6:00pm curfew that was also imposed on Vardy meant the first two occasions that Neil Aspin went to try watch the forward during his time as Halifax boss, he wasn't there because both matches were evening kick-offs."From first seeing him, I knew he was a player we had to sign," Aspin cost the West Yorkshire club £15,000 to get a player that would go on to score 145 Premier League goals and net seven times in 26 internationals for also tells the story of Vardy coming close to scoring a hat-trick of hat-tricks in one week of his one season with Halifax, which earned him a move to then non-league side Fleetwood was his golden-boot winning exploits with the Cod Army, which helped them win promotion to the English Football League for the first time in 2011-12, that made Vardy the first non-league player to cost £1m when he then joined Championship club Walsh, Leicester City's former head of recruitment, talks about how they landed the future star's signature when Southampton had also been "in for him".
Leader Live
2 days ago
- Sport
- Leader Live
No TST glory for Wrexham Red Dragons in North Carolina
After finishing second in their group, Wrexham took on Drip FC in the first stage of the knockout portion. Despite goals from Marc Albrighton and Aaron James, Wrexham lost out 6-2. Wrexham had lost their final group game 3-1 to Pat McAfee's CONCAFA SC. The Dragons, who had beaten Como and Despemendidos in their previous games to make sure of a top-two group finish, had ex-Reds striker Jake Hyde again on the scoresheet. Wrexham Red Dragons' women's side lost all three of their group encounters. Against Ultrain FC, they got off to a flying start only to suffer in Target Score Time as the opposition staged a stunning comeback to win 5-4. In the women's opener, amid extremely heavy rain at Wakemed Soccer Park, former Canada international Lindsay Agnew put Wrexham ahead before Nicole Baxter and Havana Solaun (2) scored to ensure Wrexham Red Dragons entered Target Score Time with a healthy lead. Needing one goal to win, while Ultrain had to hit five – with one player removed from each team every three minutes – but Wrexham couldn't see it out as the opposition sneaked a 5-4 victory. Drunken Monkeys prevailed 5-0 in the next match-up and Wrexham ended their programme with a 6-3 loss to Kansas City II.
BBC News
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Chester to represent Wrexham Red Dragons
Former Wales defender James Chester and Premier League winner Marc Albrighton will feature for Wrexham Red Dragons in The Soccer Tournament (TST).Wrexham Red Dragons feature for a third successive year at the seven-a-side, $1m winner-takes-all competition in Cary, North Carolina which begins on Wednesday, 4 promotion winning captain Ben Tozer, who recently announced his retirement from professional football, is also included in the squad along with two other former Wrexham players, Liam McAlinden and Jake international George Boyd features once again for the Red Dragons, who are managed by first-team coach David Jones and will face AFC Bournemouth, Real Athletico and CONCAFA Red Dragons' women's team, meanwhile, will take on Ultrain FC, Drunken Monkeys and KC Current squad includes former Wrexham players Del Morgan and Mia Roberts as well as former England internationals Katie Chapman and Rachel Unitt.
BBC News
16-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
'He brought the non-league to the Premier League'
Former Leicester City midfielder Marc Albrighton thinks there is no doubt Jamie Vardy has left a legacy behind at the King Power will leave Leicester at the end of the season after 13 years at the club, with his 200th - and final - game coming against Ipswich on Sunday."I think the way the fans could relate to him made him quite unique," Albrighton told BBC East Midlands."He was somebody that went out every game and gave 100%. He wound the fans up, he was lively in and amongst opponents and I think the fans loved that. I think he brought the non-league to the Premier League in some respects."His numbers speak for themselves and his goalscoring record is fantastic considering he came in to the professional game so late. It is certainly something he is going to be remembered for and he will have a legacy for a long time at Leicester City Football Club."Albrighton played alongside Vardy for 10 years, winning the Premier League, FA Cup and promotion back to the top flight last season. He added: "Over the few years that we played together we didn't even have to think, he [Vardy] knew where I was going to put the ball and I knew exactly the run he was going to make and it just seemed to click. He certainly made my job a lot easier."It's obviously going to be such a special day [on Sunday] and I've said this to him, 'just enjoy it.' There's times where he can shy away from his achievements and when he does achieve these outstanding things that's when he's at his most vulnerable."
