Seven years ago today Andy King scored against Scunthorpe to put Leicester top of League One.
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Leicester City haven’t known such heady days as these for a long time.
Ahead of the win over Newcastle, former Manchester United striker Van Nistelrooy had taken to social media to wish Vardy good luck in pursuit of his record, but Vardy was keeping his feet on the ground after putting his name alongside the Dutchman in the history books.
Leicester City’s English striker Jamie Vardy celebrates after scoring his team’s first goal at St James’ Park.
Asked if the performance “shocked” him, McClaren said: “Actually, I would not say it was a shock”. “Batistuta, at Fiorentina, once scored 11 goals in a row for me”. “That was the same when I managed Zola”. Hopefully Vardy can beat that.
Who would have thought a few time back that Vardy would become the first English player to score ten consecutive Premier League goals?
Mourinho, 52, has been under pressure for most of this season and recently said the chances of Chelsea retaining their Premier League title was now “mission impossible”. Once again, he played an important part in the side’s win over West Ham and not only kept the aerial threat of Andy Carroll limited, but also got on the scoresheet for Spurs.
“He was a Juventus right-back, Moreno Torricelli, who went from non-league Caratese to Serie A. And then he won the Scudetto with Juventus”.
Should Sam Allardyce’s side prevail it will be due to a much-improved rearguard display and rather than backing the Black Cats at 6/1 they warrant supporting at 11/1 to win the game to nil and 18/1 to succeed by the solitary goal. Jamie just has to continue to play in this way.
“I want to say it’s a great achievement”. We know we’re going to have bad days, and this was certainly one of them. “We have to recover from that now”.
That rounded off a move he began on the left touch-line, exchanging passes with Leonardo Ulloa before poking the ball through the legs of Moussa Sissoko to bury a shot past the exposed Newcastle goalkeeper.
“We are certainly in the mix and we are good enough if we are disciplined and organised like we have been”.
“He’s working hard for the team as well as getting his goals so you won’t see any lad in the dressing room questioning anything about him on the pitch”.
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“The manager was mad”.
