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[music stops]

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[dog whimpering]

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-[interviewer] Hey, Jamie.
-[Jamie] Hey. You okay?

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[clears throat]

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[Jamie] Fucking hell.

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[clears throat]

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[exhales deeply]

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I need a fucking drink.

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-[man laughs] All right, lad?
-[interviewer] So, um, I'm curious.

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In one word, what do you think
comes to mind for most people

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when they hear the name Jamie Vardy?

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[intriguing music playing]

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[chuckles]

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Wow.

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One word.

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[crowd cheering]

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[music continues]

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[crowd gasps]

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One word? [chuckles]

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[exhales]

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That's a tough one.

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[crowd roars]

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[chuckles]

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[intriguing music continues]

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Speed.

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[crowd cheering]

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Aggression.

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Goals.

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[crowd cheering]

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Loyal.

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[inaudible]

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-Friend.
-[man 1] Good friend.

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-Friend.
-[crowd cheering]

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Legend.

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Incredible.

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[crowd cheering]

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[music fades]

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One word?

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Probably think "twat."

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[commentator 1] It's Vardy!

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[arousing music playing]

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[commentator 2] Terrific from Vardy.

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[crowd cheering]

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[man] People see a wind-up merchant

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teasing the opposition fans,

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but there's much more to him
than all of that.

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He's the biggest underdog story
of all time.

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[camera shutters clicking]

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[TV presenter] For a boy who came
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it is the ultimate footballing fairy tale,
isn't it?

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To make that jump to the Premier League
is Everest without oxygen.

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That's when it really got real.

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[agent] There was a load of red flags.

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Police record, drinking,
partying, fighting.

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His personality
has a self-destruct button.

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Jamie Vardy has been fined.

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Shit. Like, what have I done here?

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You are gonna screw everything up
that you've worked so bloody hard for.

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Hello.

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And that's when everything changed.
Everything.

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[commentator 3] Vardy volley.
Oh, what a goal!

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Something special is happening here.
We could achieve the impossible.

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We can win the league.

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Anything can happen.
Anything can happen in football.

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[commentator 4] Jamie Vardy
has made history!

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From non-league prince
to Premier League king!

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It's Jamie Vardy!

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[music fades]

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[interviewer] Okay, so where did this all
start for you, Jamie?

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Oh, can I ju--
Can I just get a beer first?

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[interviewer] Yeah, definitely.
Uh, where are they?

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-Cupboard just behind you. The little one.
-[man] Yeah.

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Should be Modelos at the bottom.

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[man] Yeah.

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-Right, this is where it gets weird.
-[man] Yeah.

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And can you get my big wooden cock out
in my drawer that the lady's leaning on?

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[whimsical music playing]

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[man] Oh, yes, found it.

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-There you go.
-[man laughs]

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Cheers. Thank you.

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[Jamie laughs]

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[man laughing]

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Right, ready.

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[interviewer] Okay,
so where does your story begin?

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-As in football or just life?
-[interviewer] Life.

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[blows raspberry]

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[Jamie] They're definitely intertwined.

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So it started in Sheffield,
just outside of Hillsborough.

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[whimsical music playing]

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[Jamie] I was probably 19, 20 years old,
living with my parents.

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Family life was fine.
I was working in the factory.

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[whimsical music continues]

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[Jamie] Making crutches, Zimmer frames,
anything to help people who couldn't walk.

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It was really hard work. It was long days
and an absolute killer on my back.

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Definitely wasn't my dream as a kid,

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but I just thought
that was the way my life was going.

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That's the path I was on.

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[music stops]

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[interviewer]
So when you were a little kid,

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what is it that you wanted to be?

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My dream as a little kid
was to play for Sheffield Wednesday.

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[crowd chattering]

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Every week,
I'd go to the Sheffield Wednesday matches

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and then see David Hirst.

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[commentator 1] And Hirst.
It's a great goal.

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[Jamie] He was a striker.

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[commentator 2] To play the one-two
with Waddle. Hirst through! Hirst scores!

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[Jamie] And seeing him score,

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then all the fans
were up jumping and celebrating.

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Remembering what that feeling was like.
It was, I wanna emulate what he's done.

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I wanna be a striker.

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[whimsical music playing]

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[Jamie] So when I was ten,

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I got asked to sign
for Sheffield Wednesday's youth academy,

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which is virtually the next step

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to make the path
and become a professional footballer.

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It's a lot of work,
a lot of sacrifice and dedication.

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But signing for the academy
was everything.

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At school, any breaks we had, football.

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Lunch break, football.

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Three times a week. After that, training.

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I really, really wanted it.

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I'd got all the way up to the under-16s.

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I was quite small for my age.
Not had a little growth spurt yet.

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But at that point, when you get that far,

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it's like, "Oh, yeah, I'm fine.
I'm gonna play football when I'm older."

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But they said no.

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"You're not big enough
to make it as a professional."

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"I know you dreamed of doing this,
but no, you're not good enough."

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[melancholy music playing]

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[Jamie] It was hard to take.

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After that, pro-football wasn't even
crossing my mind if I'm honest.

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At 20 years old, if you've not made it
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chances are you're not gonna make it.

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But I was still playing part-time football
for a team called Stocksbridge.

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[interviewer] It was the eighth tier.

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The eighth tier. [chuckles]
It's crazy, innit?

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[chuckles] It's a long way to the top.
No chance that was gonna happen.

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[man] Stocksbridge is a non-league
South Yorkshire club.

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It's called non-league because
it's not actually a professional league.

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Water's been turned off or turned cold,
and lights are dimming,

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and pitches are heavy.

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[Jamie] There's only
100 to 200 fans turning up,

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but it was just mates, football,

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and let's have a giggle.

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I signed for the first team
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at 120 quid a week,
I think it was. [laughs]

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[Lovell] I remember the first time
he came training, we did a 12-minute run.

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I can't remember how many times
he passed me. [laughs]

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He were just like a racing snake.

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He were passing me and going,
"Keep going, Brett."

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"Keep going. You're doing well."

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[commentator] Needs to play it left.
Brings it inside.

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Oh. Oh, what a good goal.
What a good goal.

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He brought it from his own half.
Jamie Vardy…

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[Lovell] What Jamie had was everything.
Pace, power, ability, tenacity, bravery.

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[upbeat music playing]

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My God, he made up for what he lacked
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with his aggression.

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[Jamie] I was always
one of the smaller ones.

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Against fully-grown blokes, who you think
they're gonna kick the shit out of you,

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you've gotta keep getting back up,

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letting them know
that nothing's gonna faze you

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and that you can also give it back.

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[Lovell] He were just such
a talisman for us every single week.

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We were telling him all the time,
"You've got something. You can make it."

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But he were just so blasé about it all.

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"Yeah, all right, yeah.
Yeah, thanks for that, Brett."

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-"We're having a beer."
-[laughter]

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[Lovell] I don't quite think he grasped
the fact that he'd got a special talent

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that needed to be thought about
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I was never, ever thinking something
more serious with football could happen.

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[upbeat music playing]

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[Jamie] An average week for me
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then straight from work to training.

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[indistinct chattering]

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Then home, bed, ready to go to work again.

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And drinking sessions with your mates
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[upbeat dance music playing]

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[Jamie] So literally,
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I'd go straight to the pub
with The Inbetweeners.

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[man] Everyone had the same interests.

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We liked to drink, we liked football.

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-Yeah. And Wednesdays.
-We liked Wednesdays.

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-So everyone had a common interest--
-What about girls?

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-Yeah, we liked girls.
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[interviewer] Why are you called
The Inbetweeners?

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-From the program.
-From the program The Inbetweeners.

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-Oh, friend. Oh, new friend.
-Oh, new friend.

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-Friend.
-[man] Oh, friend.

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-Look at us. We're a set of oddballs.
-[all laughing]

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[interviewer] Where did the name
Sick Note come from?

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[laughs]

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Who the fuck have you been talking to?
Uh, yeah, Sick Note.

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No, I was very, uh…
I was very good at having Mondays off.

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Very, very good.

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[music fades]

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[Jamie] At that point in my life,
there was no stability whatsoever,

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and it got me in a world of trouble.

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[club music playing over speakers]

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[Jamie] One night, I was out
with one of my mates.

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Someone started taking the piss out of him
for… for wearing a hearing aid.

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So we started having a scuffle with him,

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and, then before you know it,
in the back of a cop car.

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[siren wailing]

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[Jamie] Got charged with assault.

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The judge gave me six months
on an ankle tag.

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So basically, I had to be
in the house from 6:00 p.m.

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and weren't allowed to leave till 6:00 a.m

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And he couldn't play midweek games.

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He'd have to come off early
on Saturday games

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to make sure he got home in time.

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That then hindered scouts coming
to this football club to watch him,

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to progress him to that next level.

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At some point, I pinned him up
in the changing room and said,

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"You need to grow up
and realize what talent you've got."

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It was still all about enjoyment,
the football.

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Still wasn't thinking
anything could happen from it.

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But it was more,
I've got myself in this shit.

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I've let people down.
I've let all my teammates down.

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It really isn't a nice feeling to have.

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Mindset moving forward from that was…
don't be a dick and do it again.

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[pensive music playing]

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[Jamie] I think if I didn't have football,
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carried on going down that route
of getting in trouble,

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which leads to a place you don't wanna be.

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Prison.

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[cell door closes]

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[Lovell] We got to play-offs
in his first season together.

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The second season,
we were just sort of unbeatable,

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and we won the Sheffield Senior Cup
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and won promotion together.

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Jamie played a massive part in that.

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[Jamie] I'd got to a stage
where, yes, I was enjoying myself,

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but I just-- I needed something new.

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[gentle music playing]

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[Jamie] That's when
I eventually signed for Halifax.

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[Lovell] Sad time for us when we lost him.

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But I think it came at the right time
for him to take that opportunity.

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[gentle music continues]

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[Jamie] They were a bigger club.

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The stadium was… It was a stadium.

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It was definitely a step up.

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It was never on me mind
about going higher or anything like that.

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[Lovell] The normal path
to the Premier League

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would be through an academy.

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So to make that jump from non-league
to the top of the pyramid

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is an unthinkable mountain.

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Everest without oxygen.

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But we knew he could do it.

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I'd already been told two years before
that football weren't for me,

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so it was more of the same,
just enjoy myself.

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[crowd exclaims]

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[crowd cheering]

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-[interviewer] How pleasing was that?
-[Jamie] Yeah, very pleasing.

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We were told before the game
they were scoring a lot of goals.

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They weren't leaking a lot, so to keep
a clean sheet and score six,

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very impressive.

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[interviewer] Did you…

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[Jamie] I was based in Sheffield still,
still living with my parents.

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Working at the factory.

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So you've done your full-time shift
in the day.

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Jump in the car, one hour to Halifax,
train, and drive home,

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getting ready to start another shift
the next morning.

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It takes it out of you, but I was able
to play a sport that I loved

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and score goals.

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[curious music playing]

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[man] I first heard about Jamie
from a player.

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He was playing for Halifax Town
at the time.

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He said, "Look, we've just signed
this player, uh, called Jamie Vardy."

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"He's an absolute lunatic, but we're gonna
win the league because of this boy."

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And I remember going, "Halifax, what--
What division are they in?"

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And I'm-- I'm looking down the leagues,
and they're in the seventh tier.

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I'm thinking,
"There can't be particularly good players

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in the seventh tier of English football."

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[curious music continues]

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[crowd cheering]

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[Morris] Football was my life.
I wanted to be a football agent.

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But I was struggling to even get a meeting
with a player, let alone sign one.

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[snoring]

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I thought, "I'm gonna get in my car
and have a look

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at this lunatic called Jamie Vardy."

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[spectator] Go on, Jamie.

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[Morris] Seeing this player
with just electrifying pace,

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and then you saw the magic.

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And the magic is, is when the ball's
played in behind, he was in.

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And when he's in, he didn't miss.

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[man yells]

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[commentator] What a goal
by Jamie Vardy! Who else?

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[exhales] I'm looking, like,
"Has anybody else seen this?"

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I had no doubt in my mind
this kid had a real chance.

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[crowd cheering, clapping]

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[Morris] The big problem then
was trying to track him down.

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He never answered his phone.

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I'm going,
"How can I not get hold of a player

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that's playing in the seventh tier
of English football?"

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Probably in the pub. Know what I mean?
That's probably where he was.

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Yep.

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[Morris] Did eventually get him,
and he eventually did take a meeting.

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[doorbell rings]

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Just got out of bed
when the doorbell was going.

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[Morris] I remember knocking on the door
and I'm wearing a suit,

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you know,
'cause I wanna make a good impression.

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Yeah, he come to the door
and he's just wearing a pair of shorts.

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Yeah, just answered the door
in me underwear.

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Just looking at me, this no-hair skinhead
going, "What do you want?"

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I said, "Well, you know, I'm--
It's John. I've come to see you."

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"Oh yeah, yeah. Come in."

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I remember talking to him and saying,
"Look, I think you're incredibly talented,

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and if you can focus on football
and, you know, take it seriously,

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you can go all the way,
and you can play for England."

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I hear a chuckle in the background,
his mum laughing in the kitchen.

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That's literally dreams
on top of dreams. It's…

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It's stupid to even…
to even consider, I think.

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Basically said he wanted to be my agent.
And I think I said yeah to get rid of him.

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So I ended up with… with John Morris.

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Been together ever since.

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[interviewer] Would you like to clarify,
you will be here next year?

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Uh, no, I'm signing for Ibiza Town.

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[laughing]

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Going to Ibiza on holiday,
and I'm never coming back.

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[Jamie] We got promoted, won the league.

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So I spoke to John, I just said,
"Listen, I'm quitting my job."

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He's like, "What?" I went, "I'm just gonna
give football a go for a year."

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"If it don't work, it don't work."

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It was my job then
to get him in the football league.

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-[phone rings]
-[Morris] I had to just hound people.

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I was cold-calling, speaking to people,
texting them, messaging them.

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But nobody wanted him.

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You had to try and convince people
to look beyond the problems.

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He wasn't young, he was… he was 24.
That's old in football.

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Police record, drinking,
partying, fighting.

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Then I got a phone call,
and this team came out of nowhere.

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John just said,
"Do you know where Fleetwood is?"

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To which I replied, "No."

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He's like, "Search it up.
That's where you're going."

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[uplifting music playing]

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[Jamie] Fleetwood at the time
were in the fifth tier.

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But, again, anything beyond that
was not even a consideration

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in my mind at all.

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I've always believed
that I'm a good player.

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I've just never wanted
to get carried away.

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[crowd cheering, whistling]

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[commentator 1] This is Jamie Vardy.

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And Vardy all the way. It's in!

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[crowd cheering]

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That's it for Fleetwood!

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[Morris] The Fleetwood Town season,
for me, was where the magic happened.

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[commentator 1] …for the first time
in their history.

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[commentator 2] Straight to the Fleetwood
danger man. Vardy scores!

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He was happy. He was loving life.
It was like cheating with him in the team.

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[crowd cheering]

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[commentator 3] Jamie Vardy!

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[Jamie] I think I scored 31 in 34 games,
I think it was.

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[commentator 4] Jamie Vardy
scored nine goals in his last nine games.

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Has been watched
in recent weeks by scouts.

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[crowd cheering]

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00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:50,800
[Morris] Because he was doing well
in that first half of the season,

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instead of me chasing people,
people were now calling me.

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[chanting]

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[Morris] He went on, they won the league.
Another medal for him.

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00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:01,360
He was player of the year.
He was the main man.

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[chanting]

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[inspirational music playing]

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[Morris] One day, I got a call
from the chairman of Fleetwood saying,

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"I have agreed terms with three clubs
from the Championship,"

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which is the second tier
of English football.

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This is happening. It's coming.

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Maybe I am right.

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[laughs] You know?
Maybe I am right.

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00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:28,640
And one of those clubs was Leicester City,
managed by Nigel Pearson,

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who, Jamie won't admit it,
is a big hero of his.

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Nigel was the captain
of Sheffield Wednesday.

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[Jamie] It was exciting.

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Obviously, I'd seen him play
for Sheffield Wednesday,

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so that was quite a massive thing for me.

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[Pearson] His story was interesting.
Meeting him was interesting.

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He was very quiet and very…

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[laughing]

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Just very quiet when he came in,

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but he's got a glint in his eye,
let's put it like that.

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I think the quiet side of it
is, obviously,

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I had a couple of drinks the night before.

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Feeling a bit rough.

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Nigel was going, "So come on then.
Are you signing for us?"

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And that was it.
There was only one place I was gonna go.

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[exhales sharply]

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We got there. We got there.

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[uplifting music playing]

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[Morris] It was a contract
around £8,000 a week.

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More money
than he's ever earned in his life.

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I was so excited. I mean, this is it.

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You know, I've gone from the seventh tier
to the second tier. [inhales]

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-Jamie's reaction was one of, "Okay."
-[camera shutter clicking]

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But not,
"I can't believe it, John. We're there."

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"We're going to the Championship."
No hugs, no high-fives. Just, "Okay."

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00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:36,760
[Jamie] When Leicester put the bid in,

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I'd say that was me starting to think
that I might actually be good at football.

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-But I was 25 and only just turning pro.
-[camera shutter clicking]

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00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:51,680
Now going the unchartered waters
'cause the jump now has gone massive.

404
00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:54,720
It's gonna be a big step,
but I think I can do it meself.

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00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:57,280
And obviously,
the gaffer's obviously been watching me.

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00:18:57,360 --> 00:18:59,720
He thinks I can do it as well,
so I just hope I can repay him.

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00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:00,800
[indistinct chattering]

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00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:05,560
He wasn't a stereotypical academy product.

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00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:07,440
There was an edge to him.

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00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:09,960
And you could see it in his eyes,
in his mannerisms,

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00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:11,360
the way he carried himself.

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00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:13,880
The way he attacks a game of football

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00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:17,240
is significantly different
to any other player that I've worked with.

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00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:19,800
Strikers don't tackle. Jamie tackles.

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00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:21,320
[whimsical music playing]

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00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:23,720
[Jamie] I think it got announced
three days later.

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00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:26,880
I was in the pub back home
with The Inbetweeners.

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00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:29,720
We were in here.
There used to be a telly in the back.

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00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:32,720
We're all just sat round the table,
and it come up on the news.

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00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:34,680
[TV presenter] He has rewritten
the record books,

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00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:38,240
but the £1 million price tag
doesn't faze Jamie Vardy.

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00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:41,000
It's obviously an honor. I must have been
doing very well this season.

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And if they're willing to pay the money,
then I've just gotta make sure

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I can play on the pitch
and prove I'm worth it.

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00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:49,920
[Jamie] Went crazy
on news channels, papers.

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There'd never, ever been
a non-league player

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00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:55,840
go for a million pounds.

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00:19:57,240 --> 00:20:01,360
Probably say at that moment in time,
that's when it really got real.

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00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:04,360
[music builds, fades]

430
00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:08,440
[birds chirping]

431
00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:11,840
[interviewer] What did you know
about Leicester City as a club

432
00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:13,000
at that point?

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00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:17,240
If I'm honest, as a club, not a lot.

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00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:18,840
[projector whirring]

435
00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:20,840
[uplifting music playing]

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00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:23,760
[man] There is a lot of pride
coming from Leicester.

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00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:26,040
But at the time, they'd won nothing.

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00:20:26,120 --> 00:20:27,000
[music stops abruptly]

439
00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:30,000
No FA Cup,
uh, no Premier League title. No--

440
00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:32,000
They'd never been champions of England.

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00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:35,200
It's a very middle-of-the-road,
average Midlands club.

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00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:36,960
[gentle music playing]

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[Tanner] They'd reached the depths really.
In 2008, they dropped to League One,

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00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:43,880
to the third tier of English football,
for the first time in their history.

445
00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:48,840
Aside of bereavement in your family,
it's the next worst feeling I've ever had.

446
00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:52,120
[Tanner] And it's been a slow rise
for a number of years after that.

447
00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:55,080
[commentator] They are back
in the Championship once again.

448
00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:57,360
[Tanner] They fought their way
back into the Championship,

449
00:20:57,440 --> 00:20:58,720
and there was fresh hope.

450
00:20:58,800 --> 00:20:59,760
[crowd cheering]

451
00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:02,120
[Tanner] They are the ultimate
underdog team.

452
00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:05,040
Except for the people of Leicester,
everybody writes them off.

453
00:21:05,120 --> 00:21:06,480
[gentle music continues]

454
00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:09,560
[Rennie] We were never really talked about
as contenders for anything.

455
00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:13,920
A lot of the players we had
were deemed surplus to requirements.

456
00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:16,680
They'd been at other clubs,
their contracts had run down.

457
00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:19,440
They were free agents
that nobody else really fancied.

458
00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:21,160
[indistinct chattering]

459
00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:23,280
[Tanner] But they like to surprise people.

460
00:21:23,360 --> 00:21:25,520
Every season,
there's something that happens.

461
00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:27,600
There's always a drama,
there's always a story.

462
00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:29,760
[bright music playing]

463
00:21:30,360 --> 00:21:32,560
[Jamie] At first, walking
into the dressing room, it's…

464
00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:36,040
You see the caliber of players in there.
You're like, "Fuck. Wow."

465
00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:40,880
I was, I wouldn't say star-struck,
but I'd probably say in awe of it all.

466
00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:44,040
[man] I'll be totally honest,
I'd not heard of him beforehand.

467
00:21:44,120 --> 00:21:48,560
I've heard the news, I saw the media,
and you expect a lot.

468
00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:51,120
You know, you're expecting,
okay, this guy can score goals.

469
00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:52,800
Can he score goals at this level?

470
00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:55,400
[Ian] It must've been daunting
when he first went in there.

471
00:21:55,480 --> 00:22:00,520
Turning up in a shit car, shit clothes,
and a shit haircut.

472
00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:01,440
[all laughing]

473
00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:02,520
[laughs]

474
00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:04,240
Came in the changing room,

475
00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:08,280
dressed like he'd just been woken up
in Malia and come back to football.

476
00:22:08,360 --> 00:22:13,160
He had crinkle-bottom jeans,
big V-neck T-shirt, jewelry on his wrist.

477
00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:16,680
It was almost endearing seeing him
with those clothes.

478
00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:18,840
It was almost like,
"Bless him, he's trying his best."

479
00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:21,880
[upbeat music playing]

480
00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:25,720
[Jamie] The first game was Torquay
in the Cup. Managed to score.

481
00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:28,120
I was just thinking, "Right."
Just carried on as normal.

482
00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:31,800
Just done what I was doing last year,
started it again now.

483
00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:35,040
It doesn't work like that,
unfortunately, in football.

484
00:22:35,120 --> 00:22:37,200
[crowd chattering]

485
00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:40,840
[Morgan] He didn't quite find his feet,
didn't quite make his mark.

486
00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:42,600
[crowd groans]

487
00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:48,880
He's come from non-league where
he knows how the hustle and bustle works.

488
00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:51,840
He can outsmart defenders in that league.

489
00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:54,360
[commentator 1] Vardy trying to use
his pace to full effect.

490
00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:56,200
[Morgan] When you step
into the Championship,

491
00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:58,040
the defenders will read your movement.

492
00:22:58,120 --> 00:22:59,800
They will match you.

493
00:22:59,880 --> 00:23:04,040
And I know he definitely did struggle
a little bit in his first season.

494
00:23:04,120 --> 00:23:07,480
[commentator 2] In goes the cross.
And Vardy's header! Off the bar!

495
00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:10,680
-[Ian] He looked miles off it.
-[Josh] Looked off it.

496
00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:13,760
-His touch weren't there.
-The level looked too far of a level.

497
00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:14,920
-Yeah.
-To where he was--

498
00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,160
-Out of his depth.
-Yeah, he looked out of his depth.

499
00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,200
[commentator 3] Martyn Waghorn
will replace Jamie Vardy.

500
00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:22,400
[woman speaking indistinctly over PA]

501
00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:24,160
[gentle music playing]

502
00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:26,280
[Jamie] Wasn't like I wasn't trying.

503
00:23:27,360 --> 00:23:30,000
I was giving it my all.
It just wasn't good enough.

504
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:34,600
And it was tough, because now,
all of a sudden, everyone's involved.

505
00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:35,760
[notification whistles]

506
00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:40,640
-More fans, papers, everything.
-[notifications whistling]

507
00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:44,720
You do start letting it
get into your head that,

508
00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:47,640
"Right, okay.
Maybe I'm not good for Championship."

509
00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:48,640
[notification whistles]

510
00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:53,600
[Tanner] The biggest test when he came
to Leicester was to be a professional.

511
00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:55,520
When I interviewed him
in that first season,

512
00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:57,640
he just seemed to be a little bit lost.

513
00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:01,120
He was still trying to find
the measure of the standard of football

514
00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:02,560
he was now being asked to play.

515
00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:03,560
[indistinct chattering]

516
00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:05,360
[King] I think he suffered
a culture shock.

517
00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:07,920
The level's gone up a couple of notches
to what he's used to,

518
00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,200
and he's trying
to still live that lifestyle.

519
00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:12,280
Some of the stuff
I saw him do in the first year,

520
00:24:12,360 --> 00:24:15,320
you would never believe
that would be a professional footballer.

521
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:17,360
[gentle music continues]

522
00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:21,320
[Jamie] Just used to go and have a drink
to forget about it as much as I can.

523
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:25,720
Being with your mates, talking about,
like, the past, the old memories.

524
00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:29,520
But that drink could turn into two days.

525
00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:32,840
[Rennie] He openly admitted
about how he used alcohol

526
00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:34,880
to address some of the pressures
he was feeling,

527
00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:38,320
and about how he would go about
manufacturing his own alcohol,

528
00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:39,520
the Skittle vodka.

529
00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:42,040
He'd sit at home,
massive bottle of Belvedere,

530
00:24:42,120 --> 00:24:46,080
and he'd just tip packs of Skittles
in the top, leave it in there to dissolve.

531
00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:48,520
Then he'd say, "It tastes unbelievable.
Tastes like Skittles."

532
00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:49,960
It didn't. It tasted horrific.

533
00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:52,840
[Morris] I remember
going into the apartment.

534
00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:55,640
There were pizza boxes,
mail all over the floor.

535
00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:58,160
I remember sorting out his bills,
'cause he wasn't paying his bills.

536
00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:01,040
[indistinct chattering]

537
00:25:01,120 --> 00:25:04,120
[Morris] He'd been late for training
a couple of times in a row.

538
00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:07,160
And I said, "Look, Jamie,
you're gonna be back in non-league."

539
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:10,400
"You've got one chance in life.
And you either take it or you don't."

540
00:25:11,360 --> 00:25:14,120
But Nigel was incredibly lenient to Jamie.

541
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,280
Almost like a father-son relationship.

542
00:25:17,360 --> 00:25:18,960
[crowd chattering]

543
00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:21,200
[Pearson] We knew
he was having a tough time.

544
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:26,080
There's an element of his personality
which has a self-destruct button.

545
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,240
-[whistle blows]
-[commentator] Challenged, but unfairly.

546
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:31,640
[Pearson] It felt the right thing to do

547
00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:35,360
to give him that added support
which he desperately needed.

548
00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:39,560
It was tough. At one point,
I asked him to send me back to Fleetwood.

549
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:41,160
[crowd cheering]

550
00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:44,320
[Jamie] I thought I could go back there
and go straight back to scoring goals.

551
00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:46,280
[exhilarating music playing]

552
00:25:46,360 --> 00:25:50,360
But Nigel turned around and said,
"Look, it's not happening."

553
00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:51,920
"We believe in you."

554
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,760
"We think you're good enough,
so you're going nowhere."

555
00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:56,840
[music fades]

556
00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:02,480
At that point, if I was gonna go
any further, I needed that stability,

557
00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:05,200
that someone to be there with me,

558
00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:08,040
and to help.

559
00:26:08,120 --> 00:26:11,040
[whimsical music playing]

560
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:14,920
[woman] I'd just come out of
a not-a-great relationship.

561
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:16,040
[hairspray hissing]

562
00:26:16,120 --> 00:26:17,360
I'd had a little boy,

563
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:22,520
and I was working at a nightclub
in Sheffield.

564
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,280
And I had a call from someone

565
00:26:25,360 --> 00:26:29,160
who said, "I've got a birthday party
I need you to organize."

566
00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:30,840
"Can't tell you who it is at the minute."

567
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,320
At which point I'm thinking,
"Oh, for God's sake."

568
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:35,200
You know, car crash.

569
00:26:36,360 --> 00:26:40,680
I found out it was Jamie Vardy,
and I was like, "What's the big deal?"

570
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:44,080
I didn't even know who he was
at that point.

571
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:45,200
[whimsical music continues]

572
00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:49,280
But when I learnt that Jamie
was a professional sports player,

573
00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:52,960
it made me wanna run
the other direction very quickly.

574
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:56,680
There's this kind of preconception
that they're all idiots,

575
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:58,040
they're all arseholes.

576
00:26:58,120 --> 00:27:01,080
So Jamie's birthday came round,

577
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:06,160
and sure enough,
Jamie rocks in shit-faced.

578
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:10,120
He had one friend on each side
holding him up basically.

579
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:12,520
And I'm thinking, "Oh my God."

580
00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:16,800
Yeah, I turned up to my own party
absolutely steaming.

581
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:19,320
[Rebekah] The next thing I see,

582
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,160
his friend's ordering
big bottles of champagne.

583
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:24,880
They're now out on the dance floor,

584
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:28,520
tipping them over
other members of the public.

585
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:29,560
That were mad.

586
00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:31,080
-It was a good one.
-Yeah.

587
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:34,040
I'm actually fucking over this now.

588
00:27:34,120 --> 00:27:37,280
Like, these group of lads
are not a normal group of lads.

589
00:27:37,360 --> 00:27:40,800
They're like mental cases.
They are like yobs.

590
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:44,280
Yeah, it sounds like all my mates,
if I'm honest.

591
00:27:44,360 --> 00:27:45,600
-[Josh] Is it that?
-[Ian] No.

592
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:46,760
-[all laugh]
-[Josh] Is it?

593
00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:47,920
-Is it that side?
-[Ian] No.

594
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,160
-It's all the same signature.
-[Josh] Very similar.

595
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:51,480
[whimsical music continues]

596
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:55,440
Wes Morgan's on the dance floor
with this bottle of champagne,

597
00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:58,560
pouring it into anyone's mouth
that would be willing.

598
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:00,920
[laughing]

599
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:02,760
The next thing I see

600
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:06,680
is Jamie being literally carried out
of the club by two of his friends.

601
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:10,360
And I was like, "Oh, thank God for that.
At least one down." [laughing]

602
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:12,360
[whimsical music continues]

603
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:14,040
[music stops]

604
00:28:14,120 --> 00:28:18,480
[Rebekah] Later that evening,
I get a text message from Jamie saying,

605
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:21,480
"I really wanna see you,"
and I was like, "Nah, delete."

606
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,520
[Jamie] One of the first things I did
soon as I woke up was message her.

607
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,560
She was good-looking.
She had this aura about her.

608
00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:33,600
I legitimately thought
that that's the one.

609
00:28:34,120 --> 00:28:35,680
Jamie keeps messaging me.

610
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:37,560
And it was relentless,
then it was calling.

611
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:40,680
I'd responded a couple of times
going, "Look, just forget about it."

612
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:42,480
He just would not leave me alone.

613
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:45,440
No, I weren't-- I weren't letting it go.

614
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:48,320
There was no chance that was gonna happen.

615
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:51,840
It got to the point where I was like,
"Oh, fuck it."

616
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,960
"Just respond, go meet him,
and then that'll be the end of it."

617
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:56,760
[tender music playing]

618
00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:00,600
[Rebekah] And the more I sat with him,
the more I realized that actually,

619
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:06,400
behind this crazy, alcohol-loving,
wild, party boy,

620
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:10,560
was actually a guy that was really kind,

621
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:14,560
was really good at listening,
and he was really good to talk to.

622
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:19,920
We decided to go on a couple more dates,
see what happens.

623
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,440
Just being around her,
it was, like, an unbelievable feeling.

624
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:25,440
Then it started getting serious.

625
00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:26,680
[tender music continues]

626
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:28,040
[Ian] There were other girls.

627
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:31,160
People are gonna latch on.
He's a famous footballer. That's it.

628
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:36,200
So he never knew how to take any of it
because it might come, it might go.

629
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,840
I felt like Bex was different though.
Within weeks, he was calling her wifey.

630
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:42,920
[Morris] In the time I'd been with him,
I'd never seen girlfriends.

631
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:44,280
Like, proper girlfriends.

632
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:47,760
But it soon came
that Becky was then coming to games.

633
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:51,240
I thought,
"Ooh, this one might be staying around."

634
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:56,400
And then she told me she was pregnant
on the second time that I saw her.

635
00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:00,960
Your natural reaction is to think,
"Is she in it for the right reasons?"

636
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:03,360
[Rebekah] Wasn't planned,

637
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:07,720
but we decided that, you know,
we were gonna give it a real go.

638
00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:12,160
But he kept getting really, really drunk.

639
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:14,440
Every weekend, disappearing.

640
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:19,480
I had a scan coming up
and couldn't get hold of him.

641
00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:20,760
Nowhere to be seen.

642
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:23,520
So I called John Morris, and I was like,

643
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:26,880
"John, go and find him.
I need to speak to him."

644
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:28,640
[music fades]

645
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:33,120
Some people have a drink for eight hours.
Jamie had gone on a bender for 36 hours.

646
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:35,720
And it would always be
with The Inbetweeners.

647
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:37,840
So I could ring them and say,
"Look, where is he?"

648
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:38,800
[laughter]

649
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:41,680
We were all sat in his local pub
having a drink.

650
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:44,200
And we were, like,
round the table downstairs,

651
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:46,480
and then she just stormed in
out of nowhere.

652
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:48,480
-Her face was thunder.
-[Josh] She were mad.

653
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:50,280
-Yeah, she were mad.
-She were mad.

654
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:55,000
I went, "You, me, conversation now."

655
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:57,040
Like a little schoolboy. "Come on."

656
00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:59,160
[Ian] He moved faster
than he did on the field.

657
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:01,560
I just said to him, "What is your deal?"

658
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:03,960
"Like, what is going on?"

659
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:05,040
[tender music playing]

660
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:09,680
[Jamie] I knew I could tell her anything,
and it was never too much for her.

661
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:15,200
He really started to open up then
about why he behaved the way he did.

662
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:18,320
He was like,
"I've got all this pressure on me now

663
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,080
because, you know,
they've spent all this money."

664
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:24,560
"And I just don't think
I can live up to those expectations."

665
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:27,080
And I'm like,
"Why do you doubt yourself so much?"

666
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:32,920
"You have an incredible opportunity
to do something really special."

667
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:35,200
I was like, "How do you feel about that?"

668
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:38,920
And he goes,
"Oh, it's probably never gonna work."

669
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:46,280
He said he'd always been rejected
and been told he wasn't good enough.

670
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:50,840
And so, naturally,
we do start to believe that's true.

671
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:54,680
But I said to him,
"You are gonna screw everything up

672
00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:57,520
that you've worked so bloody hard for

673
00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:00,400
if you don't change
your lifestyle choices."

674
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:04,640
I'm not telling you to stop drinking.
I'm just telling you to rein it in.

675
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:08,840
And what she was saying was right.
It needed to stop. It really did.

676
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:10,360
I needed to hear it.

677
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:14,600
[Rebekah] We talked for hours and hours,
and it was like therapy for him.

678
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:17,400
And it was at that point

679
00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:20,240
that things really, really
did turn around.

680
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:23,200
And in quite a short space of time then.

681
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:24,280
[upbeat music playing]

682
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:27,520
[Josh] She had his interests at heart.
That's when I feel like--

683
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:29,840
-We lost him.
-Yeah, and then we lost him.

684
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:31,240
[all laughing]

685
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:33,760
Vards had gone.
We had to buy our own pint.

686
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:35,200
[all laughing]

687
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:36,520
[upbeat music continues]

688
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:40,560
[Morgan] Vards pre- and post-Becky
is two completely different people.

689
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:45,000
Having that stability,
that calmness in his life,

690
00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:46,920
reflected in his performance.

691
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,640
[commentator 1] Still with Vardy.
Still with Vardy. Takes his man on.

692
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:53,200
Jamie Vardy, there it is!
That's the goal with Jamie Vardy!

693
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:56,960
[commentator 2] Goes to strike it.
Goal. Jamie Vardy.

694
00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:58,360
[Jamie] She'd always be pushing me

695
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:00,640
to better myself
and go in the right direction,

696
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:02,720
and it's 100% what I needed.

697
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:04,520
[commentator 3] Poor back-pass
from Jay Tabb.

698
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:07,840
[Pearson] A Jamie Vardy
who's in a good place mentally

699
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:11,800
is then gonna have
a positive effect on other people.

700
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:16,040
[commentator 4] Still Jamie Vardy.
There was only gonna be one outcome.

701
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:19,160
[commentator 5] Here's Vardy. Goal.

702
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:22,000
The goal that season was to get promoted
to the Premier League.

703
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:24,320
And we flew through that league,

704
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,720
got 102 points,
and Vards was a massive part of that.

705
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:31,880
He really emerged as the player
that could be the spark for the team.

706
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:34,680
[commentator 6] Jamie Vardy,
such a romantic story.

707
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:38,080
Two years ago, he was a member
of the Fleetwood Town side.

708
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:41,760
Then he came to Leicester last season
for a million pounds,

709
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:44,440
but he's really delivered
in this campaign.

710
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:46,640
[interviewer] In just five years,

711
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:50,360
you climbed from the eighth tier
of football

712
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:52,160
to the top flight.

713
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:53,840
How many years? Five?

714
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:55,320
-[interviewer] Five.
-Fucking hell.

715
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:58,400
[indistinct chattering]

716
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:03,240
[Tanner] There's a gulf
between every division,

717
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:06,560
but the biggest jump is from
the Championship to the Premier League.

718
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:09,920
Players from all over the world,
the best of the best,

719
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:11,840
come and play in the Premier League.

720
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:16,760
They're playing Man United,
Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester City.

721
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:18,760
[crowd cheering]

722
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:21,000
[Tanner] It is the richest league
in the world,

723
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:25,160
and there's a definite link between
money and success in the Premier League.

724
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:28,320
Clubs like Leicester are not expected

725
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:30,280
to compete with the elite
of English football.

726
00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:33,680
A promoted team going up,
it's a struggle all season.

727
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:37,400
Your main aim is to stay in that league.

728
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:41,600
For me, personally, it was, now let's see
if I can do it at this level.

729
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,560
[man speaking indistinctly over PA]

730
00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:46,800
[commentator] A sense of energy
and expectation

731
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:48,880
around the King Power Stadium
ahead of this one.

732
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:51,320
The sun has come out right on cue.

733
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:55,640
[Albrighton] It was a bit of excitement
more than anything in the dressing room.

734
00:34:55,720 --> 00:34:58,400
Lads were excited
to be playing against Man United.

735
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:00,920
Everybody watches Man United
all over the world,

736
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:06,760
so all of a sudden, the audience
isn't just England, it's worldwide.

737
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:09,800
[commentator] By and large, these
Leicester players have plied their trade

738
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:11,920
in and around the Championship.
Some of them…

739
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,360
[Tanner] This was a huge
David versus Goliath game.

740
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:17,080
Little old Leicester had been
out of the Premier League for a decade.

741
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:19,360
And now they were gonna take on
Manchester United,

742
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:21,360
royalty in English football.

743
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:23,320
That's when it felt real.

744
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:26,080
[commentator] Here they come,
Leicester against Manchester United.

745
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:27,880
[Jamie] I don't care
who I'm playing against.

746
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:29,200
That's how I've always been.

747
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:33,880
You need to be just focusing on yourself.
That was the main focus that day.

748
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,520
I will never forget the Man United game
as long as I live.

749
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:40,240
One, 'cause he's got
the stupid bloody mohawk.

750
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:42,440
[commentator] Jamie Vardy
starts a Premier League game

751
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:44,160
for the very first time.

752
00:35:44,240 --> 00:35:46,600
Coming out with a haircut like that,
what a knobhead.

753
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:48,240
-[all laughing]
-Yeah.

754
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,920
[Rebekah] Honestly, when he came home
from the barbers, I was like,

755
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:54,080
"What is wrong with you?
Why can you not just be normal?"

756
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:56,160
[Jamie] It was just me being me.

757
00:35:56,240 --> 00:35:57,120
I thought, why not?

758
00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:00,680
Let's just go into this new season
and give it as good as I can.

759
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:01,720
[crowd chattering]

760
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,800
[commentator] Falcao,
he's looking for van Persie.

761
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:10,360
Right on cue, Robin van Persie
off and running for the season.

762
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:11,720
[crowd cheering]

763
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:15,120
[commentator] Rooney.
Di María has continued his run.

764
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:19,200
And Di María goes for the finish,
and that is a sensational goal.

765
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:20,760
[King] They score early doors.

766
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:21,800
You think, "Here we go."

767
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:24,800
"This is gonna be one of those
where it's just, don't get pumped."

768
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:27,640
[Tanner] Manchester United
must've thought, "This is gonna be easy."

769
00:36:27,720 --> 00:36:29,560
This could be 4, 5, 6 - nil.

770
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:33,200
But suddenly,
then Jamie Vardy came to the floor.

771
00:36:33,720 --> 00:36:35,040
[dramatic sting]

772
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:38,840
[crowd roars]

773
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:43,760
There's only one goal in it.
Let's keep pushing and see what happens.

774
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:48,080
[commentator] Van Persie.
Di María. Deflected and in.

775
00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:50,600
Herrera, wheels away.

776
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:51,800
[cheering]

777
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:54,800
[Morgan] 3-1 down.
[exhales] This is not looking good.

778
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:56,400
[Rennie] It was like the game was done.

779
00:36:57,120 --> 00:37:00,400
I could see Jamie looking back
at the bench to say, "Are you sure?"

780
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:02,720
"There's still plenty of time."

781
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:04,680
[commentator] You can still
get something here.

782
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:08,400
He was running his heart out
to try and create something for the team,

783
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:09,960
try and create something for himself.

784
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:14,000
[Morris] He looked like a thug
on the pitch, this raw, caged animal

785
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:16,960
with power, pace, energy.

786
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:19,720
[Tanner] It was just him everywhere.

787
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:23,560
It felt like there was two Jamie Vardys
on the pitch. And he bullied them.

788
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:27,240
[triumphant music playing]

789
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:28,200
[whistle blows]

790
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:30,760
[commentator 1] Rafael responds
and gives away a penalty.

791
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:32,680
[crowd roars]

792
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:36,400
[commentator 1] There's Cambiasso!

793
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:40,720
And then what happened next
was miraculous.

794
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:43,440
[commentator 2] Ritchie De Laet
has got Vardy up ahead and free!

795
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:45,520
Vardy could win it here for them!

796
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:47,640
-He scores!
-[crowd roars]

797
00:37:47,720 --> 00:37:50,080
[commentator 2] The comeback
of all comebacks!

798
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:53,000
I was buzzing, not gonna lie.
Absolutely buzzing.

799
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:56,760
[commentator 3] Jamie Vardy
with his first ever Premier League goal.

800
00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:58,600
[Jamie] It's hard to score goals
at any level,

801
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:00,920
but to do it
in the best league in the world,

802
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,720
it shows that this is
where I'm supposed to be.

803
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:06,720
I think the haircut might have helped.

804
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:10,200
♪ Jamie Vardy's having a party
Bring your vodka and your Charlie ♪

805
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:13,440
It's a fairy tale, and, uh,
he deserves great credit, this guy,

806
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:17,000
for showing people that he can be a player
in the Premier League.

807
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:19,840
[Rennie] Leicester five,
Manchester United three.

808
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:22,320
It was something that
we never thought we'd really see.

809
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:26,840
It was, you know, really Jamie Vardy five,
Manchester United three.

810
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:28,760
[interviewer] How big a day
was this for you?

811
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:30,680
Three years ago this weekend,

812
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:32,560
playing for Fleetwood
against Kidderminster.

813
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:33,760
Incredible, isn't it?

814
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:37,480
Yeah, it's massive. Obviously, it's not
been an easy journey to come here.

815
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:40,440
Now we're at the top,
but it's all about staying here now.

816
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:42,520
Managed to get three points.
Moves us up the table.

817
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:44,000
[crowd chattering]

818
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:48,000
A lot of people had never heard of him,
but that was the game

819
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:50,680
where everybody's turning round, going,
"Who the fuck is that guy?"

820
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:52,840
[whimsical music playing]

821
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:56,720
[Rebekah] Everyone wanted to find out more
about the man behind the name.

822
00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:01,480
And he absolutely despised
doing interviews.

823
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:02,960
Oh, for fuck's sake.

824
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:06,640
[Rebekah] He wasn't confident enough
in front of cameras.

825
00:39:06,720 --> 00:39:08,080
Are we recording?

826
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:09,760
-I was shite.
-[Ian] You'd cringe.

827
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:11,920
You'd watch him,
and you'd be like, "Oh no."

828
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,560
-I've settled in to the standard of foot--
-[phone chimes]

829
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:15,480
Wahey.

830
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:17,320
[laughs] Sorry, booty call.

831
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:20,120
When you're brought through the academy,
you get all that training.

832
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:22,560
He's been chucked in from Fleetwood,
like "Yeah, go for it."

833
00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:23,520
Uh… Uh…

834
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:24,720
[whimsical music continues]

835
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:27,000
[Jamie] Youngsters now
have to do media training,

836
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:29,120
whereas I did what any normal kid does.

837
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,480
Just got to the swimming pool,
jumped in the deep end.

838
00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:34,160
[chuckles] Swim. Swim.

839
00:39:34,240 --> 00:39:36,560
[man] Can you do that again?
But don't look in here.

840
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:38,760
But I like looking in there. I'm a poser.

841
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:41,960
[Jamie] There's no better way of learning,
I'll be honest.

842
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:43,080
[interviewer] Hey, Becky.

843
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:44,680
Just saw a bit of shine.

844
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:45,640
[Jamie exhales]

845
00:39:45,720 --> 00:39:48,120
-How've you seen a shine from there?
-[Rebekah] I asked.

846
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:49,760
-You asked?
-[Rebekah] Yeah.

847
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:52,800
-Fucking hell. You got spies in here?
-I was waiting till you'd finished.

848
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:55,400
I'd not finished.
I was just halfway through it.

849
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:57,480
[laughing]

850
00:39:57,560 --> 00:39:59,640
[Rebekah] Stop frowning.
Just relax your face.

851
00:39:59,720 --> 00:40:00,720
[Jamie exhales]

852
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:02,200
Right.

853
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:05,800
-No one likes a shiny Vardy.
-[interviewer laughing]

854
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:09,640
No one likes an unshiny Vardy either.
Do I look better on camera now?

855
00:40:10,720 --> 00:40:11,880
[man] Beautiful.

856
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:15,240
[gentle music playing]

857
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:17,480
[Rebekah]
After the Manchester United game,

858
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:20,600
Sofia came into the world.

859
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:24,640
There was a real air of excitement.

860
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:27,000
It was new beginnings.

861
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:30,600
And new beginnings for everyone as well.

862
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:33,320
Oh, are we… are we on a swing?

863
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:36,400
Smile. Hello.

864
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:37,960
[Jamie] The both of us, over the moon.

865
00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:38,880
Hello.

866
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:41,440
[Jamie] The family side of it were great.

867
00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:44,720
Me and Bex had now
got our own little bundle of joy.

868
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:49,960
But the football side of it was…
was a bit more tough.

869
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:51,440
[crowd singing]

870
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:54,160
[commentator] Leicester
currently bottom of the league,

871
00:40:54,240 --> 00:40:57,880
and scratching around for a goal,
never mind a victory.

872
00:40:58,640 --> 00:40:59,880
[Pearson] We were in a bad run.

873
00:40:59,960 --> 00:41:02,320
We were in a run of games
where we couldn't get a result.

874
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:04,440
[tense pulsating music playing]

875
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:07,160
[Tanner] They were bottom of the table
for 140 days.

876
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:10,840
There was no chance of survival.
They were absolutely rock bottom.

877
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:13,640
The dream looked like
it was gonna turn into a nightmare.

878
00:41:13,720 --> 00:41:15,600
[commentator] Leicester have lost again.

879
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:20,080
They stay bottom, and they have
an almighty fight on their hands

880
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:22,480
to stay in the Barclays Premier League.

881
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:24,880
[TV presenter] Any chance
for you for them staying up?

882
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:27,960
I think they've gotta win four
of their remaining eight games to, uh…

883
00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:29,160
to give themselves a chance.

884
00:41:29,240 --> 00:41:32,280
They've only won five all season,
so I think it's a tough ask.

885
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:33,840
[tense pulsating music continues]

886
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:36,640
[Albrighton] Towards the end
of that season, we were dead and buried.

887
00:41:36,720 --> 00:41:39,560
People had written us off. I think
the bookies had stopped taking bets.

888
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:42,120
And we were… we were doomed.

889
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:43,400
[whistle blows]

890
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:45,920
[commentator 1] So Leicester City
get us off and underway…

891
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:47,440
[Tanner] If they didn't win that day,

892
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:50,360
they would really be staring
down the barrel of relegation.

893
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:52,240
Time was running out for them.

894
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:56,560
[commentator 2] Four minutes to be added.
We are into those four minutes now.

895
00:41:56,640 --> 00:42:00,320
It was 2-2. It was over 90 minutes.
Yeah, we were down and out.

896
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:03,080
[tense pulsating music continues]

897
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:06,000
If I'm being told I can't do something,

898
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:10,600
then I'm doing everything
physically possible to prove that I can.

899
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:12,520
[crowd cheering]

900
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:15,240
[inspirational music playing]

901
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:22,960
[commentator 3] Left-footed, Jamie Vardy!
What a goal from Jamie Vardy!

902
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:27,880
Has he just got Leicester City
a huge Premier League lifeline?

903
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:29,000
[crowd cheering]

904
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:31,680
[Morgan] That goal gave us
the spark we needed

905
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:33,840
to start believing
we can do this, you know?

906
00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:35,440
[crowd cheering]

907
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:38,200
"Fuck this. We're not getting relegated."

908
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:41,280
That was his mantra.
He would say it, he would shout it.

909
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:43,880
He would get people
to where they needed to be.

910
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:45,600
[triumphant music playing]

911
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:49,360
[commentator 1] "We are staying up"
is the cry echoing around the King Power.

912
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:51,320
-Yeah, Ulloa!
-[crowd cheering]

913
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:53,400
Finds the bottom corner.

914
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:57,000
[commentator 2] Can they do it?
Can they escape?

915
00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:02,280
There was a lot of pressure,
but Vards just made everyone relax

916
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:05,200
because of his personality
and his character,

917
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:07,080
and that was infectious.

918
00:43:07,720 --> 00:43:10,040
And if I'm more relaxed,
I'll perform better.

919
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:11,680
[triumphant music continues]

920
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:15,480
[commentator 1] What a chance!
And Vardy was there.

921
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:18,520
Vital win for Leicester City.

922
00:43:23,720 --> 00:43:24,560
[music builds]

923
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:26,120
[crowd cheering]

924
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:29,040
[commentator 2] They can almost
taste safety now.

925
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:33,480
[commentator 3] Looking for Vardy again.
Oh, Mahrez!

926
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:36,600
Yet another win for Leicester City.

927
00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:42,040
They've almost doubled their tally
in just over a month. Incredible.

928
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:42,960
[whistle blows]

929
00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:46,280
[commentator 4] And that is the full-time
whistle here at the Stadium of Light.

930
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:51,280
Leicester City have guaranteed their place
in the Premier League next term,

931
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:53,160
with a point here at Sunderland

932
00:43:53,240 --> 00:43:57,240
and a run that defies all runs
in the Premier League.

933
00:43:57,320 --> 00:43:59,680
[music builds]

934
00:44:01,720 --> 00:44:02,560
[music fades]

935
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:05,280
[King] I don't know how it happened.
Unbelievable achievement.

936
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:07,760
"The Great Escape," they call it.

937
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:09,280
[crowd cheering]

938
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:10,720
[Albrighton] The club was gonna be playing

939
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:12,360
Premier League football
the following season.

940
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:14,160
That was incredible for… for everyone.

941
00:44:14,240 --> 00:44:17,600
And Vards was very much
at the heart of that.

942
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:19,680
[crowd cheering]

943
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:26,840
[cheering fades]

944
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:35,280
[Jamie] I was out shopping
for holiday clothes,

945
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:38,760
and I got a text message saying that
I'd been called up to the England squad.

946
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:44,120
And I just looked at it and closed it,
thinking someone was taking the piss.

947
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:46,200
[interviewer] Have you had
to pinch yourself at all?

948
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:48,320
I've been pinching myself every day,

949
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:51,520
obviously, since, uh,
the squad got mentioned, and…

950
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:55,920
I expected it. If you believe it
in the seventh tier of English football,

951
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:58,240
why am I gonna change
when you get to the first tier?

952
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:01,280
[Jamie] I remember him saying
back in the day,

953
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:03,400
"You're gonna play for England."
I'm laughing at him.

954
00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:08,200
But he was right. He's…
First time he's been right.

955
00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:10,280
[interviewer] Vardy and Rooney
up front for England.

956
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:13,240
That's something that wouldn't
have been said a year or two back.

957
00:45:13,320 --> 00:45:16,760
[chuckles] A year or two? I don't think
it'd have been said three months ago.

958
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:20,040
That's the ultimate honor.
Playing for your country.

959
00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:23,800
Pulling that jersey on
with them three lions on.

960
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:25,520
It's stuff of dreams.

961
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:28,200
It probably was stuff of his dreams,
and he made them reality.

962
00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:29,800
[players chattering indistinctly]

963
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:32,680
[Tanner] Jamie's different to the players
that normally play for England,

964
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:34,560
because they've come through academies.

965
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:36,640
They're gonna have
the best nutrition advice.

966
00:45:36,720 --> 00:45:38,280
Strength conditioning as well.

967
00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:41,600
And here comes
this freak of nature, Jamie Vardy,

968
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:44,440
living off pizza, Pringles,
and Red Bull. [chuckles]

969
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:48,600
[Morris] Everybody wanted a piece
of Jamie Vardy.

970
00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:51,400
But he weren't ready.
You know, we weren't expecting it,

971
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:52,920
and it just went "poof."

972
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:55,280
[curious music playing]

973
00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:57,200
They're interested in everything.

974
00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:01,400
Somebody trawled through his Facebook
and found this "chat shit get banged."

975
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:04,280
[interviewer] What's
"chat shit get banged"?

976
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:07,000
This is the problem, I don't know.

977
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:10,040
I really don't know. It's doing me head--
Everyone asks.

978
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:12,160
I would imagine it would've been

979
00:46:12,240 --> 00:46:16,160
a pretty standard Tuesday night
for Jamie Vardy and the boys.

980
00:46:16,240 --> 00:46:17,960
Somebody chatting shit,
somebody got banged.

981
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:19,720
-He put it on Facebook.
-Twitter.

982
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:21,880
-"Chat shit get banged."
-[Grant] Yeah.

983
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:23,440
So then he took it as like…

984
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:26,120
Then people ran with that.
"Vards chat shit get banged," but--

985
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:28,240
I've no idea why I wrote it.

986
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:31,200
I think it was from, like,
2012 or something.

987
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:35,840
So I've literally not got a Scooby-Doo.
But it sounds good.

988
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:37,680
♪ Chat shit get banged ♪

989
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:40,480
♪ Banged
Chat shit get banged ♪

990
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:43,880
[Morris] It just became an instant slogan,
and the fans embraced it.

991
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:44,800
♪ Banged ♪

992
00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:47,640
[Morris] Internet memes
and songs people recorded.

993
00:46:47,720 --> 00:46:50,840
And you did see T-shirts and tattoos.
There was all sorts.

994
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:52,600
♪ …get banged
Line 'em up, line 'em up ♪

995
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:54,680
[Tanner] Jamie Vardy
was becoming a cult figure,

996
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:56,640
and, uh, it just summed him up.

997
00:46:56,720 --> 00:46:58,680
Talk nonsense to me,
you're gonna get something.

998
00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:01,040
I think it was a message to defenders
in the Premier League.

999
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:02,200
-They get what?
-Banged.

1000
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:03,320
Chat shit, chat shit get--

1001
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:04,480
-Banged.
-Banged.

1002
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:07,600
[birds chirping]

1003
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:09,040
Whoo.

1004
00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:12,120
[Jamie] Going into the new season, we were
confident we knew how to win games.

1005
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:13,520
Whoo-hoo.

1006
00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:16,160
♪ Floating on the moon ♪

1007
00:47:16,240 --> 00:47:18,840
We've still got this momentum
from the year before.

1008
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:21,680
Can we carry that on?

1009
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:23,160
[indistinct chattering]

1010
00:47:23,240 --> 00:47:24,920
[suspenseful music playing]

1011
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:26,680
[newscaster] There are various media

1012
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:30,560
reporting that Nigel Pearson
has been, quote, "sacked"

1013
00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:34,720
as the manager of Leicester City.
Unconfirmed reports at the moment.

1014
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:37,360
[reporter] The reason
it comes as such a shock

1015
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:39,760
is that Pearson had done
such a fantastic job

1016
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:42,320
in rescuing Leicester
and keeping them in the Premier League.

1017
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:46,680
He managed to achieve the greatest escapes
that we've seen in Premier League history.

1018
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:50,720
[Jamie] I was utterly shocked,
knowing what he'd done for myself,

1019
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:54,920
taking me there
and backing me and believing in me.

1020
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:58,000
I was… Probably say I was devastated.

1021
00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:00,080
[newscaster] He's the man
who steered Leicester City

1022
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:01,840
clear of relegation
from the Premier League.

1023
00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:04,560
One month later,
he's been sacked by the club.

1024
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:05,800
[tender music playing]

1025
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:10,840
It was difficult leaving, yeah,
under the circumstances as well, but…

1026
00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:17,760
It was not an easy period to come through,
in all honesty. It was a tough time.

1027
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:19,080
[Pearson speaking indistinctly]

1028
00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:24,200
It was a shock to everyone,
and I think it's like with anything.

1029
00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:27,240
When there's a big change like that,
there's the unknown.

1030
00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:29,680
[man speaking indistinctly]

1031
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:32,040
[Tanner] There was an expectation
after the great escape

1032
00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:33,520
that they could build on that.

1033
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:37,680
But then when Nigel Pearson left,
there was a lot of doubt,

1034
00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:41,040
and the big question then was
"Who's next?"

1035
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:44,920
Leicester City's search
for a new manager is over,

1036
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:48,960
as they've announced the appointment
of Claudio Ranieri.

1037
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:50,520
-Really?
-Claudio Ranieri.

1038
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:52,480
-Claudio Ranieri?
-Claudio Ranieri.

1039
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:54,960
-What the fuck?
-This is a bit of a shock.

1040
00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:57,880
I think people thought
they'd seen the last of Claudio Ranieri.

1041
00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:01,080
[Cottee] It's a strange appointment.
I think they've taken a massive risk.

1042
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:04,720
For me, it's very…
it's very good and very exciting

1043
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:08,520
to start the new, uh, season.

1044
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:12,720
[reporter] He has a CV blessed
with 14 different teams he's managed.

1045
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:17,240
Most recently Greece where he only
took charge for, I think, four games.

1046
00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:20,200
They lost to the Faroe Islands.
He was subsequently sacked.

1047
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:21,280
[camera shutters clicking]

1048
00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:23,040
[Tanner] They were
different personalities.

1049
00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:25,840
Nigel's approach
was to foster this team spirit,

1050
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:28,920
whereas Claudio was a man
that used to chop and change a lot.

1051
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:30,640
"The Tinkerman," as he was known.

1052
00:49:30,720 --> 00:49:33,520
It just felt like
this could be a recipe for disaster.

1053
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:37,960
There was not a lot I knew, if I'm honest.
Just knew he'd been at Chelsea. That's it.

1054
00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:40,520
[Albrighton] We didn't know
what to expect.

1055
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:44,120
It was gonna be a lot different
to the regime that we was currently in.

1056
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:46,640
-I want to don't change too much.
-[man] Yeah.

1057
00:49:46,720 --> 00:49:51,520
But just to give my…
the Italian tactical way.

1058
00:49:52,320 --> 00:49:56,240
[Rennie] Coming into the '15-'16 season,
we didn't have a particularly big squad.

1059
00:49:56,320 --> 00:49:58,720
We didn't have any marquee signings.

1060
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:03,400
It was a… a band of brothers, really,
assembled on a shoe-string budget.

1061
00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:04,760
[disorienting music playing]

1062
00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:07,840
[Tanner] Everything seemed to be
stacked against them that season.

1063
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:12,080
The odds of Leicester City winning
the Premier League title was 5,000 to 1.

1064
00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:15,640
It means for every pound,
you can get £5,000 back.

1065
00:50:16,240 --> 00:50:19,040
It was the longest odds ever
in the history of the Premier League

1066
00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:20,640
on a team winning the title.

1067
00:50:20,720 --> 00:50:24,280
Famously, you could've got shorter odds
on finding Elvis Presley alive.

1068
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:27,320
You were literally betting
on the impossible.

1069
00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:28,720
[dramatic music playing]

1070
00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:31,640
[man 1] A team like Leicester's
not gonna win the Premier League.

1071
00:50:31,720 --> 00:50:34,480
[man 2] How do you say impossible?
Why is it impossible?

1072
00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:37,160
[man 1] It's not gonna happen.
It's not imp-- It's not gonna happen.

1073
00:50:37,240 --> 00:50:43,120
I think in us heads deep down
the main target was to avoid relegation.

1074
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:44,560
But I love being an underdog.

1075
00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:47,320
At the end of the day, it's 11 versus 11.

1076
00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:51,120
It doesn't matter what team it is,
anything can happen.

1077
00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:53,280
Anything can happen in football.

1078
00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:56,880
[commentator] After 11 years
away from English football, he's back.

1079
00:50:57,400 --> 00:51:01,280
Former Tinkerman of Chelsea
now in charge of Leicester City.

1080
00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:05,480
[frenetic music playing]

1081
00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:08,240
The first game of a season
is always very unknown.

1082
00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:11,280
You don't know where you are
in terms of fitness levels

1083
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:13,440
and where you are compared to other teams.

1084
00:51:14,040 --> 00:51:15,560
But we got off to a great start.

1085
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:19,040
[commentator] Albrighton has delivered.
Knocked on by Huth.

1086
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:22,800
It's found a way in! Jamie Vardy!

1087
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:24,080
[crowd cheering]

1088
00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:25,320
Leicester lead!

1089
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:31,160
Carrying on
from where they left off last season.

1090
00:51:31,720 --> 00:51:34,040
[King] I remember it being
a bit of a muted celebration.

1091
00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:37,640
Was it because he'd been with England
and he's now used to scoring goals,

1092
00:51:37,720 --> 00:51:40,320
or was it something
which was going on in the background?

1093
00:51:40,920 --> 00:51:43,600
[tense music playing]

1094
00:51:43,680 --> 00:51:45,160
[Jamie] A few weeks before that game,

1095
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:51,320
I was just out with my wife,
teammates there, their partners,

1096
00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:52,920
playing poker in the casino.

1097
00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:57,920
There was a guy walking around,
looking at people's cards,

1098
00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:02,240
and going and telling another guy
on the table virtually what we had.

1099
00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:04,600
[tense music continues playing]

1100
00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:08,120
It literally just kicks off.

1101
00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:09,280
F*** off.

1102
00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:13,240
[Rebekah] Shot glasses
go flying everywhere.

1103
00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:18,040
Cards go everywhere, and Jamie…

1104
00:52:18,120 --> 00:52:22,280
Just the Sheffield lad
came out in full force that night

1105
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:26,120
and said a few things
that he shouldn't have said.

1106
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:32,360
I remember being sat in bed one night,
and we get a phone call saying

1107
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:38,000
the security cameras
had been provided to the media.

1108
00:52:38,520 --> 00:52:40,640
They're running a racism story.

1109
00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:44,200
Shit, like, what's… What have I done here?

1110
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:46,120
[indistinct chattering]

1111
00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:47,880
[Jamie] Jap.

1112
00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:49,400
Walk on…

1113
00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:53,480
Used a term that
I didn't think was offensive.

1114
00:52:53,560 --> 00:52:57,240
Thought it was just
an abbreviation of Japan.

1115
00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:01,080
And it got me in a bit of trouble.

1116
00:53:01,160 --> 00:53:03,160
[somber music playing]

1117
00:53:04,120 --> 00:53:08,160
You're like "racist," what?
Like, no, that's not me.

1118
00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:11,080
-He were gutted about it, to be fair.
-Yeah.

1119
00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:12,880
-'Cause it's not him.
-No.

1120
00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:15,400
-He's not like that at all.
-No, he's nothing like that.

1121
00:53:15,480 --> 00:53:18,120
[notifications whistling]

1122
00:53:18,960 --> 00:53:21,120
[Morgan] We shared
a dressing room every day.

1123
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:25,040
We're on the pitch fighting
for each other, you know, every weekend.

1124
00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:28,960
In terms of being labeled a racist,
you know, never in a million years.

1125
00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:32,080
[notifications whistling]

1126
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:36,520
[Rebekah] He didn't say those words
because he was being racist.

1127
00:53:37,560 --> 00:53:39,960
He said those words
because he's uneducated.

1128
00:53:40,040 --> 00:53:42,800
It was a kind of
throwaway comment for him,

1129
00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:46,080
but he openly admitted to us straightaway
that he'd done it,

1130
00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:49,720
and, uh, I think the club took action
to try and redress that.

1131
00:53:51,160 --> 00:53:55,960
[Jamie] They could terminate my contract
or massive fines, even sold.

1132
00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:58,560
So to be in that situation was horrific.

1133
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:02,320
Leicester City has confirmed
Jamie Vardy has been fined

1134
00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:05,160
and will receive
diversity awareness training.

1135
00:54:05,240 --> 00:54:08,640
And it definitely helped me.
It's not something you get taught.

1136
00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:11,480
Like especially in…

1137
00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:16,920
In school, growing up and stuff,
you get taught what a racist is,

1138
00:54:17,440 --> 00:54:19,160
what terms are not to be used.

1139
00:54:19,240 --> 00:54:22,680
And, you know… [exhales]
100% should never be used.

1140
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:28,000
So I think that was a massive,
massive learning curve for myself.

1141
00:54:28,080 --> 00:54:29,360
[girl laughing]

1142
00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:32,200
[Jamie] After that moment,
it was go training, go home.

1143
00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:34,400
Don't even bother putting yourself

1144
00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:38,520
in a situation where anything stupid
or anything bad could happen.

1145
00:54:39,040 --> 00:54:43,280
[Rebekah] We realized, like,
we were not normal people anymore.

1146
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:48,360
As much as we tried to pretend
and, you know, live our lives normally,

1147
00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:50,960
we just couldn't do it anymore.

1148
00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:55,680
[Jamie] That event definitely showed
how everything had changed.

1149
00:54:55,760 --> 00:54:57,800
-Someone's messaged you.
-[girl laughing]

1150
00:54:57,880 --> 00:54:58,840
[Jamie] Everything.

1151
00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:00,640
[Rebekah] See you later.

1152
00:55:02,120 --> 00:55:04,400
[Tanner] The club had to move on
very quickly from that.

1153
00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:08,160
Although, it was definitely a feeling that
he'd have to win some people back over.

1154
00:55:08,240 --> 00:55:10,880
But people didn't expect
what was gonna happen next.

1155
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:11,840
[whistle blows]

1156
00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:13,680
[upbeat music playing]

1157
00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:17,600
[commentator 1] That one
hammered home by Jamie Vardy.

1158
00:55:17,680 --> 00:55:18,840
[crowd cheering]

1159
00:55:19,720 --> 00:55:22,000
[commentator 2] Here's Vardy. Jamie Vardy!

1160
00:55:22,080 --> 00:55:25,200
[Morris] He was unbelievable.
He went on this goal-scoring run.

1161
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:28,840
[commentator 3] Vardy is breaking through.
Astonishing.

1162
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:30,160
He just couldn't stop scoring.

1163
00:55:30,240 --> 00:55:31,720
[commentator 4] Vardy!

1164
00:55:31,800 --> 00:55:33,320
[crowd cheering]

1165
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:36,440
[commentator 4]
His scoring spree continues.

1166
00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:41,320
[commentator 5] That's five
in a row from Vardy.

1167
00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:43,440
[King] The way he was playing,
you couldn't stop him.

1168
00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:45,840
And it drove the team forward.

1169
00:55:45,920 --> 00:55:47,280
Then it was like,

1170
00:55:47,360 --> 00:55:50,240
let's see how many points we can get
and how high we finish on the table.

1171
00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:52,640
[commentator 6] Takes over, Vardy.
He's in here!

1172
00:55:52,720 --> 00:55:56,440
He scored again! He's on fire!

1173
00:55:57,280 --> 00:56:01,000
[Jamie] The first time I realized
I was on the consecutive goal-scoring run

1174
00:56:01,080 --> 00:56:02,920
was when we played Crystal Palace at home.

1175
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:03,840
[crowd cheering]

1176
00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:07,480
[commentator 7] He's done it yet again.
Seven games running.

1177
00:56:07,560 --> 00:56:09,440
But up until then, I'd not a clue.

1178
00:56:09,520 --> 00:56:14,600
[commentator 8] Here he is, Jamie Vardy.
In the clear to score again.

1179
00:56:14,680 --> 00:56:18,080
The goals just keep on coming
for Jamie Vardy.

1180
00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:20,880
[Tanner] The record for scoring
in consecutive games in the Premier League

1181
00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:24,360
was Ruud van Nistelrooy.
And he scored in ten consecutive games.

1182
00:56:24,440 --> 00:56:27,360
[commentator 9] Surrounded by white shirts
and still going.

1183
00:56:27,440 --> 00:56:30,120
What a run by Ruud van Nistelrooy.
What a goal.

1184
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:32,360
[Tanner] Ruud van Nistelrooy
was royalty in football.

1185
00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:34,600
Scored at some of the biggest clubs
in the world.

1186
00:56:34,680 --> 00:56:37,760
Then you've got Jamie Vardy
coming from the backstreets of Sheffield.

1187
00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:40,000
There was no chance
that he was gonna break that record.

1188
00:56:40,080 --> 00:56:41,800
[suspenseful music playing]

1189
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:45,440
[commentator 10] Is this the moment
for Jamie Vardy?

1190
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:48,120
-This is the moment!
-[crowd cheering]

1191
00:56:48,200 --> 00:56:50,800
His remarkable run continues.

1192
00:56:51,320 --> 00:56:54,880
He scores for the ninth match running
in the Premier League.

1193
00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:58,720
Getting to number nine, and I was one…
one away from matching the record.

1194
00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:02,920
[commentator 10] Much of the build-up,
of course, has centered on this man.

1195
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:04,680
Jamie Vardy goes for the record.

1196
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:07,920
Ten successive
Barclays Premier League games.

1197
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:10,280
[Morgan] Everyone's talking
in the dressing room, like,

1198
00:57:10,360 --> 00:57:13,520
"This is the equal-record game."
It's in the back of everyone's mind.

1199
00:57:14,600 --> 00:57:17,080
[Jamie] The previous record
set by van Nistelrooy

1200
00:57:17,160 --> 00:57:19,200
was actually done
against Newcastle as well.

1201
00:57:19,280 --> 00:57:21,760
So it was all along the same lines.

1202
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:23,440
[commentator 11] Here's Vardy.

1203
00:57:24,760 --> 00:57:27,640
Games that are as tight as this,
he's often the one to separate them.

1204
00:57:27,720 --> 00:57:29,520
This is Jamie Vardy!

1205
00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:30,680
[crowd roars]

1206
00:57:30,760 --> 00:57:32,200
History maker.

1207
00:57:32,920 --> 00:57:34,560
Ten out of ten.

1208
00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:40,400
And the fairy tale goes on.
Jamie Vardy is living the dream.

1209
00:57:40,480 --> 00:57:42,560
[presenter] All the headlines
will be about Jamie Vardy

1210
00:57:42,640 --> 00:57:44,640
who scored in ten consecutive
Premier League games.

1211
00:57:44,720 --> 00:57:47,080
But what about
this Leicester City side as well,

1212
00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:48,840
unbeaten in ten away Premier League games?

1213
00:57:48,920 --> 00:57:51,800
Oh, ain't going anywhere.
I don't think they're going anywhere.

1214
00:57:51,880 --> 00:57:53,400
It's hard to explain.

1215
00:57:53,480 --> 00:57:56,680
Obviously, cheers, boys. Wouldn't have
been able to do it without all of you.

1216
00:57:56,760 --> 00:58:00,240
But, um, the gaffer's just said he's gonna
put some beers on the coach and the plane.

1217
00:58:00,320 --> 00:58:01,720
[all] Yeah!

1218
00:58:01,800 --> 00:58:03,960
[chattering and clapping]

1219
00:58:04,040 --> 00:58:06,080
[Morgan] He's equalled the record,
everyone's buzzing.

1220
00:58:06,160 --> 00:58:07,800
But can you break the record?

1221
00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:11,200
If it didn't have
a fairy-tale feel about it enough,

1222
00:58:11,280 --> 00:58:14,920
the fact that it was Manchester United,
Ruud van Nistelrooy's team,

1223
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:17,920
that Jamie Vardy could score
his eleventh against,

1224
00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:19,840
that just made it even sweeter.

1225
00:58:19,920 --> 00:58:22,840
[commentator] The toss is up,
the stage is set, the lights are on.

1226
00:58:22,920 --> 00:58:27,240
These are the days of our lives,
ladies and gentlemen.

1227
00:58:27,320 --> 00:58:30,000
It does not get better than this.

1228
00:58:30,080 --> 00:58:34,480
Everything surrounding the game was…
Just felt huge. It felt massive.

1229
00:58:34,560 --> 00:58:35,400
[crowd cheering]

1230
00:58:35,480 --> 00:58:38,480
Everybody was just rooting for him
to go and get it.

1231
00:58:39,600 --> 00:58:42,120
But nobody really spoke about it.

1232
00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:45,760
It was almost like
we didn't wanna interrupt what he's doing

1233
00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:47,320
and put too much pressure on one game.

1234
00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:49,360
[inaudible]

1235
00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:53,400
[Morgan] But, to be honest, he didn't
look like he was feeling any pressure.

1236
00:58:53,480 --> 00:58:55,040
[inspirational music playing]

1237
00:58:55,120 --> 00:58:59,280
I remember the night before
the Man United game, I called him

1238
00:58:59,880 --> 00:59:02,600
and just said, "Look, if you don't
break the record, it's okay."

1239
00:59:02,680 --> 00:59:05,080
"You've got to ten.
It's an incredible achievement."

1240
00:59:06,800 --> 00:59:08,240
He was just deadpan straight back.

1241
00:59:08,320 --> 00:59:10,640
"Don't worry about tomorrow.
I'm getting one."

1242
00:59:11,480 --> 00:59:14,680
Everybody was desperate to try
and make that pass for that goal.

1243
00:59:14,760 --> 00:59:15,680
[whistle blows]

1244
00:59:16,600 --> 00:59:17,440
Just look for him.

1245
00:59:17,520 --> 00:59:20,200
You almost sacrifice a goal
to make sure he scores.

1246
00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:21,880
[inspirational music continues]

1247
00:59:21,960 --> 00:59:24,440
[Morris] It was an evening game
under the lights.

1248
00:59:25,240 --> 00:59:27,560
Everybody was rooting for Vardy
to score that night.

1249
00:59:29,160 --> 00:59:30,360
He's in.

1250
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:33,960
And Christian Fuchs clips that pass
straight into his path.

1251
00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:35,920
[commentator] Fuchs.

1252
00:59:36,520 --> 00:59:38,760
[interviewer] What were you thinking
when Fuchs passed you the ball

1253
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:39,960
and you took the shot?

1254
00:59:40,480 --> 00:59:41,800
Don't miss. [laughs]

1255
00:59:44,560 --> 00:59:46,200
[commentator] Vardy!

1256
00:59:46,280 --> 00:59:47,320
[crowd roars]

1257
00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:51,720
[commentator] It's 11.
It's heaven for Jamie Vardy.

1258
00:59:52,480 --> 00:59:56,000
Hold the back page. Hold the front page.

1259
00:59:56,080 --> 00:59:58,880
A Leicester player has smashed the record.

1260
00:59:58,960 --> 01:00:02,080
[inspirational music continues]

1261
01:00:02,160 --> 01:00:05,200
[Jamie] When I scored,
the emotions were through the roof.

1262
01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:07,200
Mine, fucking mine.

1263
01:00:08,080 --> 01:00:10,000
I just… I get in the moment.

1264
01:00:11,240 --> 01:00:13,240
[Albrighton] We won't
all get to break records,

1265
01:00:13,320 --> 01:00:17,440
but seeing one of our close friends
and our teammates be able to do it,

1266
01:00:17,520 --> 01:00:20,360
is huge,
and we were just so happy for him.

1267
01:00:21,440 --> 01:00:23,080
[King] We felt like we'd scored it.

1268
01:00:23,160 --> 01:00:25,560
And the cheer was the loudest
I'd ever heard in the stadium.

1269
01:00:25,640 --> 01:00:28,240
[crowd cheering]

1270
01:00:28,320 --> 01:00:31,200
[Jamie] During the run,
everyone was fully behind me.

1271
01:00:31,280 --> 01:00:34,800
It made me wanna do it, but… for them.

1272
01:00:37,040 --> 01:00:40,120
He sent me a message from the dressing
room saying, "Well, that ended well."

1273
01:00:40,200 --> 01:00:41,400
[laughing]

1274
01:00:41,480 --> 01:00:42,800
[notification whistles]

1275
01:00:42,880 --> 01:00:45,200
[Jamie] Ruud sent me a Tweet at the time.

1276
01:00:45,720 --> 01:00:48,880
It was officially my record
at that moment in time.

1277
01:00:50,160 --> 01:00:52,600
Yeah, it's pretty good. Pretty good.

1278
01:00:52,680 --> 01:00:53,640
[crowd cheering]

1279
01:00:53,720 --> 01:00:56,000
[Albrighton] And after the run
that he went on,

1280
01:00:56,080 --> 01:00:59,120
we found ourselves
near the top of the table.

1281
01:00:59,640 --> 01:01:01,120
It was amazing.

1282
01:01:01,800 --> 01:01:04,600
My wife said to me, "You know,
you could win the Premier League."

1283
01:01:04,680 --> 01:01:07,560
[chuckling] I just gave her a look
and said, "Don't be ridiculous."

1284
01:01:11,520 --> 01:01:13,400
[Jamie] We had
our Christmas do just after,

1285
01:01:13,480 --> 01:01:15,520
so we went to jump on a flight.

1286
01:01:15,600 --> 01:01:18,800
And then just as I landed,
got a phone call off my wife

1287
01:01:18,880 --> 01:01:21,600
saying, "Your agent's trying
to get hold of you. You need to ring him."

1288
01:01:21,680 --> 01:01:24,200
So I rang him up and he was like, um,

1289
01:01:24,720 --> 01:01:27,800
"Just letting you know, there's a story
coming out in the papers tomorrow."

1290
01:01:27,880 --> 01:01:31,400
So I'm like, "Well, about what?
I've not done anything wrong."

1291
01:01:31,480 --> 01:01:32,760
And he's like,

1292
01:01:32,840 --> 01:01:35,920
"No, they've, um…
They've found your real dad."

1293
01:01:36,000 --> 01:01:37,840
And I was like, "What?"

1294
01:01:39,240 --> 01:01:42,320
[Morris] I'd had a call
from the MailOnline and they said,

1295
01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:46,040
"We've had Jamie's father
at his game today."

1296
01:01:46,120 --> 01:01:48,600
And I'm thinking, "His father?"
Well… [exhales]

1297
01:01:48,680 --> 01:01:49,920
…his father wasn't at the game.

1298
01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:53,800
And they went, "Oh no.
His biological father was at the game."

1299
01:01:53,880 --> 01:01:55,960
I was like, "Mm. Right, okay."

1300
01:01:56,040 --> 01:01:57,480
I didn't know if he knew.

1301
01:01:57,560 --> 01:01:58,840
[pensive music playing]

1302
01:01:58,920 --> 01:02:02,840
So I rung his mum first,
and she's crying her eyes out saying,

1303
01:02:02,920 --> 01:02:06,480
"You have to stop this.
You have to stop this. This isn't fair."

1304
01:02:07,080 --> 01:02:11,280
He's like, "Yeah, they've been
and done loads of research,

1305
01:02:11,360 --> 01:02:14,960
and they've found your real dad,
tracked him down,

1306
01:02:15,960 --> 01:02:18,040
paid for him to get to Swansea,

1307
01:02:18,120 --> 01:02:21,680
paid for him to have his ticket,
so that they could get pictures of him

1308
01:02:21,760 --> 01:02:23,200
in Swansea Stadium,

1309
01:02:23,920 --> 01:02:26,440
and then done
a big, massive interview with him."

1310
01:02:27,160 --> 01:02:31,520
So the press, the photographers, paparazzi
started turning up in Copenhagen

1311
01:02:31,600 --> 01:02:33,360
to get pictures of Jamie.

1312
01:02:33,440 --> 01:02:35,600
I'm thinking, "I need to get him home."

1313
01:02:35,680 --> 01:02:36,800
[camera shutter clicks]

1314
01:02:36,880 --> 01:02:40,280
Yeah, I flew back home
just to get away from it all.

1315
01:02:40,960 --> 01:02:43,480
Trying to get my head around everything

1316
01:02:43,560 --> 01:02:47,440
and work out
basically what the fuck was going on.

1317
01:02:48,040 --> 01:02:51,000
[interviewer] Did you have any idea
that the dad that raised you

1318
01:02:51,080 --> 01:02:53,160
wasn't your biological father?

1319
01:02:53,680 --> 01:02:57,680
I had a slight inkling
from when I was younger.

1320
01:02:57,760 --> 01:02:59,600
Used to get people saying,
"We know your dad,"

1321
01:02:59,680 --> 01:03:04,080
but they were from completely
different areas, so I was like…

1322
01:03:04,600 --> 01:03:06,680
And they'd go, "No, no, your real dad."

1323
01:03:06,760 --> 01:03:10,640
I just used to bat it off, if I'm honest.
Like, didn't wanna know.

1324
01:03:11,160 --> 01:03:14,400
But then, obviously, this came out
and it was like… [exhales] "Fuck."

1325
01:03:14,480 --> 01:03:17,800
I don't understand why
that was in the public's interest…

1326
01:03:17,880 --> 01:03:19,280
[gentle music playing]

1327
01:03:19,360 --> 01:03:20,880
…to traumatize someone.

1328
01:03:21,760 --> 01:03:23,360
It was just cruel. It was cruel.

1329
01:03:24,800 --> 01:03:27,840
[Morris] You break a goal-scoring record
one day, everything's amazing,

1330
01:03:27,920 --> 01:03:30,760
and the next day, the media
are looking to knock you down

1331
01:03:30,840 --> 01:03:33,480
and derail all the great stuff
you've done.

1332
01:03:33,560 --> 01:03:35,080
And it was… it was a tough time.

1333
01:03:36,600 --> 01:03:39,400
[Jamie] I was then getting letters
sent to the club

1334
01:03:39,480 --> 01:03:44,760
from my so-called dad's family,

1335
01:03:46,040 --> 01:03:49,320
who were saying,
"If you do wanna speak, I'm…"

1336
01:03:49,400 --> 01:03:51,080
"I'm basically your auntie."

1337
01:03:52,720 --> 01:03:55,280
No. Not, uh… Not for me.

1338
01:03:55,360 --> 01:03:56,760
[gentle music continues]

1339
01:03:56,840 --> 01:03:59,240
-[interviewer] Has he tried reaching out?
-Not tried reaching out.

1340
01:03:59,320 --> 01:04:00,760
Not tried doing anything.

1341
01:04:00,840 --> 01:04:03,760
Probably got a bit of cash for doing
that paper, and he was happy, so…

1342
01:04:04,320 --> 01:04:05,280
leave him to it.

1343
01:04:05,360 --> 01:04:06,880
[indistinct chattering]

1344
01:04:06,960 --> 01:04:10,480
[Rebekah] I was proper pissed off
because I just thought,

1345
01:04:10,560 --> 01:04:15,320
how can anyone allow their child
to go through life thinking one thing

1346
01:04:15,400 --> 01:04:19,680
without ever solidly confirming that
that thing isn't actually correct?

1347
01:04:21,120 --> 01:04:22,680
It's just unforgivable.

1348
01:04:22,760 --> 01:04:24,280
[gentle music continues]

1349
01:04:25,200 --> 01:04:27,440
Yeah, it was…
it was tough hearing it all.

1350
01:04:29,600 --> 01:04:33,440
Probably one of the hard…
harder things I've had to get through.

1351
01:04:33,520 --> 01:04:36,320
I think I did have a pop at my mum.

1352
01:04:37,360 --> 01:04:39,800
I thought I should've been told
if it was true.

1353
01:04:40,320 --> 01:04:42,840
I've still--
I've still not heard it from them now.

1354
01:04:43,680 --> 01:04:46,160
They've still not seen the kids.

1355
01:04:47,120 --> 01:04:49,440
So I made the decision I was done with it.

1356
01:04:49,520 --> 01:04:52,040
[indistinct chattering]

1357
01:04:52,120 --> 01:04:54,080
I've got my wife, got my children.

1358
01:04:54,160 --> 01:04:55,640
-[Jamie] Was it good?
-Yeah.

1359
01:04:56,320 --> 01:04:57,760
[Jamie] We're here, we're happy.

1360
01:04:58,520 --> 01:04:59,520
-[Jamie] Hey.
-[boy] Yeah?

1361
01:04:59,600 --> 01:05:01,840
-Saw your volley.
-[boy speaking indistinctly]

1362
01:05:01,920 --> 01:05:04,080
[Jamie] And that… that's all that matters.

1363
01:05:04,160 --> 01:05:07,920
That legitimately is
all that matters to me.

1364
01:05:08,000 --> 01:05:09,120
Making sure they're happy.

1365
01:05:09,200 --> 01:05:10,200
[Jamie laughing]

1366
01:05:10,280 --> 01:05:12,680
[gentle music continues]

1367
01:05:12,760 --> 01:05:15,760
[Rebekah] After the news broke,
he had a game coming up.

1368
01:05:16,360 --> 01:05:19,360
And I thought he is not
in the right frame of mind.

1369
01:05:19,440 --> 01:05:25,120
And I was worried that
the built-up resentment and anger

1370
01:05:25,200 --> 01:05:29,440
was gonna manifest in a really bad way.

1371
01:05:29,520 --> 01:05:32,280
-[crowd chattering]
-[whistle blows]

1372
01:05:32,360 --> 01:05:36,000
[Morris] Could this derail him,
derail Leicester's season?

1373
01:05:36,080 --> 01:05:37,480
[inaudible]

1374
01:05:38,480 --> 01:05:39,320
I was worried.

1375
01:05:39,400 --> 01:05:40,520
[pensive music playing]

1376
01:05:40,600 --> 01:05:42,600
[crowd cheering]

1377
01:05:46,400 --> 01:05:48,680
-[commentator] Mahrez! Vardy!
-[crowd cheering]

1378
01:05:48,760 --> 01:05:50,040
[Rebekah] But it didn't.

1379
01:05:50,120 --> 01:05:55,560
He managed to switch off everything,
like it was not even going on.

1380
01:05:56,280 --> 01:05:58,000
[Morris] Where does he bury hurt?

1381
01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:02,760
You know, where does he bury being sad?
I don't know where he puts it.

1382
01:06:03,800 --> 01:06:06,160
He's had trauma,
and he crosses the white line,

1383
01:06:06,240 --> 01:06:07,280
and he performs.

1384
01:06:08,360 --> 01:06:09,640
Maybe that's the therapy.

1385
01:06:10,680 --> 01:06:13,040
It's like I step over the white line
and it's like right,

1386
01:06:13,120 --> 01:06:15,880
focus in, win, play well, score.

1387
01:06:15,960 --> 01:06:18,360
I think that's how I've dealt with it all.

1388
01:06:19,200 --> 01:06:23,080
[Albrighton] His confidence
and the way that he played was infectious.

1389
01:06:23,160 --> 01:06:25,120
He was the one
that was setting the tone, and…

1390
01:06:26,240 --> 01:06:27,920
everyone had to follow that.

1391
01:06:29,240 --> 01:06:31,400
[commentator 1] Ricochet here
has come the way of Vardy.

1392
01:06:31,480 --> 01:06:33,200
Okazaki. They're in again.

1393
01:06:33,280 --> 01:06:35,440
They scored again!

1394
01:06:35,520 --> 01:06:37,600
Leicester are flying.

1395
01:06:37,680 --> 01:06:40,440
[commentator 2] This is Vardy who's in.
And around Butland!

1396
01:06:40,520 --> 01:06:41,360
[crowd cheering]

1397
01:06:42,120 --> 01:06:44,320
[Tanner] When they hit the summit
of the Premier League

1398
01:06:44,400 --> 01:06:47,760
and you saw that on your screen,
it looked like a typo.

1399
01:06:47,840 --> 01:06:48,760
[cheering]

1400
01:06:48,840 --> 01:06:51,280
I think we can do it.
It's destined for Leicester.

1401
01:06:51,360 --> 01:06:53,040
We're top of the league!

1402
01:06:53,120 --> 01:06:55,520
You're pinching yourself thinking,
"Should this be happening?"

1403
01:06:55,600 --> 01:06:56,840
"Is this really happening?"

1404
01:06:56,920 --> 01:06:59,640
[reporter] All nationalities and faiths
have caught the football bug.

1405
01:06:59,720 --> 01:07:03,720
And their success has created
local, adventurous entrepreneurs.

1406
01:07:03,800 --> 01:07:06,480
At one takeaway,
you can get a Mighty Mahrez,

1407
01:07:06,560 --> 01:07:07,800
or the Vardy Burger,

1408
01:07:07,880 --> 01:07:09,880
and a Vardy coffee to go with it.

1409
01:07:10,680 --> 01:07:12,560
[man] We could never prepare,
we could never plan

1410
01:07:12,640 --> 01:07:14,280
for how this had panned out this year.

1411
01:07:14,360 --> 01:07:16,440
Um, I think everyone's
just enjoying it for what it is.

1412
01:07:16,520 --> 01:07:18,000
We were just enjoying ourselves,

1413
01:07:18,080 --> 01:07:20,480
just playing football
with smiles on our faces.

1414
01:07:21,240 --> 01:07:24,560
And that's why the results were coming.
But the pundits were saying,

1415
01:07:24,640 --> 01:07:27,520
"Oh, they'll lose to Liverpool,
then it's over."

1416
01:07:28,040 --> 01:07:31,040
They had three fixtures
which looked particularly challenging.

1417
01:07:31,120 --> 01:07:33,520
Liverpool, Manchester City, and Arsenal.

1418
01:07:34,200 --> 01:07:36,960
If you lose three games at that stage,
you're gonna fall away.

1419
01:07:37,920 --> 01:07:40,400
It would really mean
the end of your title dream.

1420
01:07:40,920 --> 01:07:43,640
And everybody thought
that Leicester would fail this test.

1421
01:07:43,720 --> 01:07:46,800
[commentator] Riyad Mahrez. Over the top.
Will he find Vardy? Yes, he will.

1422
01:07:46,880 --> 01:07:47,880
Vardy volley!

1423
01:07:47,960 --> 01:07:49,080
[crowd roars]

1424
01:07:49,160 --> 01:07:51,840
Oh yes! The goal of the season!

1425
01:07:51,920 --> 01:07:54,080
Jamie Vardy, what a finish!

1426
01:07:54,160 --> 01:07:57,560
It was like, "Go fuck yourself.
Bang, there you go. 1-0, see you later."

1427
01:07:57,640 --> 01:08:01,640
I've seen some goals. I'm not sure
I've ever seen a better goal this season.

1428
01:08:01,720 --> 01:08:03,760
This is one of the best goals
I've ever seen.

1429
01:08:03,840 --> 01:08:07,400
[inspirational music playing]

1430
01:08:08,000 --> 01:08:12,000
[commentator] Leicester continue
to write this hugely unlikely tale

1431
01:08:12,080 --> 01:08:14,160
to defy expectations.

1432
01:08:14,240 --> 01:08:16,120
[Tanner] Beating Liverpool at home
was one thing,

1433
01:08:16,200 --> 01:08:19,200
but to win a title, you've gotta go
to the toughest places in the country

1434
01:08:19,280 --> 01:08:20,240
and get a result.

1435
01:08:20,320 --> 01:08:22,880
And at that point,
going to Manchester City

1436
01:08:22,960 --> 01:08:25,320
was the biggest test
they would face that season.

1437
01:08:25,840 --> 01:08:28,480
Manchester City
are one of the richest clubs in the world.

1438
01:08:28,560 --> 01:08:30,440
They're buying up the best players.

1439
01:08:30,520 --> 01:08:34,120
They're building a super team,
and they're dominating English football.

1440
01:08:34,200 --> 01:08:37,040
And here's Leicester rocking up
at Manchester City

1441
01:08:37,120 --> 01:08:40,920
with a squad that's nearly a tenth
of the cost of the Manchester City squad.

1442
01:08:41,000 --> 01:08:44,600
It looked ominous, and it looked like one
that might be beyond them.

1443
01:08:44,680 --> 01:08:47,600
[man 1] If Leicester, in the next
three years, spend 500 million quid,

1444
01:08:47,680 --> 01:08:49,880
they'll have a chance of winning.
Until that point, no.

1445
01:08:49,960 --> 01:08:52,720
-[man 2] But this is their best chance.
-[man 1] They're not gonna win.

1446
01:08:52,800 --> 01:08:54,640
[man 2] No, but this is their best chance.

1447
01:08:54,720 --> 01:08:56,960
Not in three years' time.
It's now, isn't it?

1448
01:08:57,880 --> 01:09:00,720
Everyone was going Man City are gonna
beat Leicester, go back to the top,

1449
01:09:00,800 --> 01:09:03,240
Leicester will fall down, and Man City
will run away with the league.

1450
01:09:03,840 --> 01:09:06,080
[commentator] Leicester
were 5,000-to-1 outsiders

1451
01:09:06,160 --> 01:09:08,320
to win the title
at the start of the campaign.

1452
01:09:08,400 --> 01:09:10,360
Already a remarkable story.

1453
01:09:10,440 --> 01:09:11,760
Who will have the happy ending

1454
01:09:11,840 --> 01:09:14,640
in the final chapter
of this tale of two cities?

1455
01:09:16,240 --> 01:09:19,480
There was no fear.
Everything was so relaxed.

1456
01:09:19,560 --> 01:09:21,400
-[Rebekah sneezes]
-Bless you.

1457
01:09:22,200 --> 01:09:23,360
[inspirational music playing]

1458
01:09:23,440 --> 01:09:25,680
[commentator] Lifted in beyond Okazaki
and squeezed home!

1459
01:09:26,480 --> 01:09:31,160
Robert Huth has scored for Leicester City
inside two and a half minutes.

1460
01:09:31,920 --> 01:09:33,840
-Riyad Mahrez!
-[crowd roars]

1461
01:09:33,920 --> 01:09:35,640
2-0 Leicester.

1462
01:09:37,040 --> 01:09:40,360
Huth with the header.
It's three. Sensational.

1463
01:09:40,880 --> 01:09:43,960
They're not just beating
the richest club in the land,

1464
01:09:44,040 --> 01:09:47,120
they're ripping them up
on their own patch.

1465
01:09:47,640 --> 01:09:50,560
[Albrighton] The one thing
that we had over a lot of teams

1466
01:09:50,640 --> 01:09:52,640
was just that togetherness.

1467
01:09:53,120 --> 01:09:57,200
We had a group of lads that
would just do anything for each other.

1468
01:09:57,280 --> 01:09:58,120
[dramatic sting]

1469
01:09:58,200 --> 01:10:01,360
[Tanner] After the Man City game, the odds
on Leicester City becoming champions

1470
01:10:01,440 --> 01:10:04,240
started to shift in their favor
for the first time.

1471
01:10:04,320 --> 01:10:08,240
They can do it. We can win the league.

1472
01:10:08,760 --> 01:10:10,840
[Morgan] I thought
something special is happening.

1473
01:10:10,920 --> 01:10:15,040
We could achieve the impossible,
but pressures started to creep up on us.

1474
01:10:15,120 --> 01:10:17,040
[dramatic music playing]

1475
01:10:17,120 --> 01:10:19,600
[Albrighton] We may never, ever
be in this position again.

1476
01:10:19,680 --> 01:10:21,160
We can't let this slip now.

1477
01:10:21,240 --> 01:10:25,480
We've got ourselves this far.
We have to take this opportunity.

1478
01:10:25,560 --> 01:10:28,000
We have to, like,
snatch it with both hands.

1479
01:10:28,080 --> 01:10:30,480
[commentator] Leicester,
having won at Manchester City,

1480
01:10:30,560 --> 01:10:32,560
were winning at Arsenal.

1481
01:10:33,080 --> 01:10:35,760
Then they lost a man.
Now they've lost a goal.

1482
01:10:35,840 --> 01:10:37,160
[crowd chattering]

1483
01:10:37,760 --> 01:10:40,120
-Arsenal, with an extra man, need this.
-[whistle blows]

1484
01:10:40,200 --> 01:10:42,640
Özil clips it in. Welbeck!

1485
01:10:42,720 --> 01:10:44,120
[Arsenal fans cheering]

1486
01:10:44,200 --> 01:10:46,080
There's your fairy tale.

1487
01:10:46,960 --> 01:10:50,360
You could weep for Leicester.
You could weep for them.

1488
01:10:50,880 --> 01:10:56,040
But Arsenal have squeezed it all up
in the very last seconds.

1489
01:10:56,120 --> 01:10:58,960
Everyone was probably like…
[exhales] "Right, that could be it."

1490
01:10:59,040 --> 01:11:00,800
"Their balloon's burst. It's done."

1491
01:11:01,320 --> 01:11:04,720
But the Leicester crowd
are like we've just won the game 3-0.

1492
01:11:04,800 --> 01:11:09,240
So, out of their seats, standing ovation.
Still going mad like we've won.

1493
01:11:09,320 --> 01:11:11,240
[Jamie] Our fans were unbelievable.

1494
01:11:11,320 --> 01:11:15,680
The one thing they love is seeing,
whatever the result, you give your all.

1495
01:11:16,480 --> 01:11:18,880
And that's what we did.
We gave it everything.

1496
01:11:18,960 --> 01:11:19,920
[dramatic music playing]

1497
01:11:20,000 --> 01:11:22,040
[Albrighton] We're thinking,
"We're top of the table."

1498
01:11:22,120 --> 01:11:23,880
"If we get this amount of points
from that,

1499
01:11:23,960 --> 01:11:25,560
we can actually win the league."

1500
01:11:26,080 --> 01:11:29,880
When you sense that the fans have got
that belief, and the players have got it,

1501
01:11:29,960 --> 01:11:34,040
that's when something, like, underneath
just starts bubbling up.

1502
01:11:34,640 --> 01:11:37,120
[Jamie] Everyone was all of a sudden,

1503
01:11:37,200 --> 01:11:39,880
at that moment in time,
turning into a Leicester fan.

1504
01:11:39,960 --> 01:11:42,440
[King] People who didn't know
about football knew about Leicester

1505
01:11:42,520 --> 01:11:44,840
because it became a worldwide story.

1506
01:11:44,920 --> 01:11:47,160
Everyone wanted Leicester to do it.

1507
01:11:47,760 --> 01:11:50,880
Rather than it being corporate money
taking over everything,

1508
01:11:50,960 --> 01:11:53,280
and just whoever has
the most expensive squad wins,

1509
01:11:53,360 --> 01:11:57,240
it was almost like you know what, passion
and love for the game can still win.

1510
01:11:57,320 --> 01:11:59,880
And I think that's what a lot of people
bought into it with.

1511
01:11:59,960 --> 01:12:03,280
[reporter] If Leicester do win,
it'll be the first time in 12 years

1512
01:12:03,360 --> 01:12:06,400
that the Premier League
hasn't been won by the big beasts,

1513
01:12:06,480 --> 01:12:09,840
Manchester United,
Manchester City, or Chelsea.

1514
01:12:09,920 --> 01:12:13,960
If it's someone like us,
it gives people a dream

1515
01:12:14,960 --> 01:12:17,080
that things can actually happen to them.

1516
01:12:17,160 --> 01:12:20,280
♪ We know you won't believe us
We know you won't believe us ♪

1517
01:12:20,360 --> 01:12:22,280
♪ We know you won't believe us ♪

1518
01:12:22,360 --> 01:12:24,360
♪ We're gonna win the league ♪

1519
01:12:24,440 --> 01:12:27,640
Something as a fan you never dreamed of.
You watch other clubs do it.

1520
01:12:27,720 --> 01:12:29,960
It's never gonna be your turn
to win the Premier League.

1521
01:12:30,040 --> 01:12:32,320
And suddenly it is. It just could be.

1522
01:12:33,320 --> 01:12:37,320
[commentator 1] Not just
outside the stadium, but inside as well.

1523
01:12:37,400 --> 01:12:40,800
They feel that
they are within touching distance.

1524
01:12:41,880 --> 01:12:44,840
You're so close to it,
and then things changed.

1525
01:12:44,920 --> 01:12:46,600
[crowd booing]

1526
01:12:49,000 --> 01:12:49,960
[commentator 2] Vardy.

1527
01:12:50,040 --> 01:12:52,280
-[Jamie] Um, had a ball put through…
-[whistle blows]

1528
01:12:52,360 --> 01:12:54,240
…and tangle of legs.

1529
01:12:54,320 --> 01:12:56,240
Soon as I was on the ground,
I heard the whistle.

1530
01:12:56,320 --> 01:12:59,160
I automatically thought
that he'd given a penalty.

1531
01:13:00,200 --> 01:13:04,360
And then he started waddling in
and pointed the other way.

1532
01:13:05,000 --> 01:13:08,480
Gave a free kick to them and…
and booked me for diving.

1533
01:13:08,560 --> 01:13:12,400
[commentator] Striker, Jamie Vardy,
controversially is sent off.

1534
01:13:12,920 --> 01:13:14,840
[Jamie] The red mist kicked in, and…

1535
01:13:15,720 --> 01:13:16,840
yeah, I called him a cunt.

1536
01:13:17,440 --> 01:13:19,800
[disorienting music playing]

1537
01:13:19,880 --> 01:13:24,400
[Albrighton] The news started coming out,
Vardy's gonna miss the next two games.

1538
01:13:25,080 --> 01:13:29,320
How are Leicester gonna cope?
That's taking their main man out the team.

1539
01:13:29,400 --> 01:13:32,640
[disorienting music playing]

1540
01:13:32,720 --> 01:13:34,520
[Jamie] 'Cause of my reaction to the ref,

1541
01:13:34,600 --> 01:13:37,160
I was gonna miss
Swansea at home and Man U away.

1542
01:13:38,320 --> 01:13:41,840
After that, I thought it's done.
This is what everyone's waiting for.

1543
01:13:41,920 --> 01:13:43,240
[disorienting music playing]

1544
01:13:43,320 --> 01:13:45,560
[Jamie] Timing was horrific.
Like, horrific.

1545
01:13:46,520 --> 01:13:49,480
Four games left,
and it was still really close.

1546
01:13:50,080 --> 01:13:52,040
[Albrighton] Tottenham
were right behind us.

1547
01:13:52,120 --> 01:13:55,480
[crowd chattering]

1548
01:13:55,560 --> 01:13:58,160
[Tanner] Harry Kane,
Tottenham's main striker and captain,

1549
01:13:58,240 --> 01:14:01,880
posted on social media
an image of some lions on the hunt,

1550
01:14:02,480 --> 01:14:04,240
suggesting "We're coming for you."

1551
01:14:04,320 --> 01:14:06,560
[dramatic music playing]

1552
01:14:06,640 --> 01:14:08,280
[Morgan] No one can replicate Vards,

1553
01:14:08,360 --> 01:14:09,720
but the signs of a good team

1554
01:14:09,800 --> 01:14:13,920
is can you cope
when the unexpected happens?

1555
01:14:14,000 --> 01:14:15,800
[commentator]
The man they wish could play.

1556
01:14:15,880 --> 01:14:18,680
They're missing 22 goals worth
of Jamie Vardy.

1557
01:14:18,760 --> 01:14:21,040
Today, he is a fan.

1558
01:14:21,120 --> 01:14:23,600
[Tanner] There was tension
going into the Swansea City game.

1559
01:14:23,680 --> 01:14:26,280
They'd been denied their talisman striker.

1560
01:14:27,040 --> 01:14:29,360
[Jamie] I'll be honest,
it was nerve-wracking. I hated it.

1561
01:14:29,880 --> 01:14:33,360
[King] He probably felt he was letting
us down, but we didn't see it like that.

1562
01:14:33,440 --> 01:14:35,640
The reason we were in the position
was because of him.

1563
01:14:35,720 --> 01:14:38,720
Right now, it's on us to make sure
we're in that position when you're back.

1564
01:14:38,800 --> 01:14:40,000
[commentator] To Mahrez.

1565
01:14:40,800 --> 01:14:43,160
-And Mahrez scores!
-[crowd cheering]

1566
01:14:44,040 --> 01:14:45,960
[Jamie] I was just buzzing
watching the lads.

1567
01:14:46,560 --> 01:14:47,960
They did unbelievable.

1568
01:14:48,040 --> 01:14:51,440
[commentator] Gray.
And lashed in by Albrighton!

1569
01:14:51,520 --> 01:14:53,320
[Albrighton] That shut everyone up.

1570
01:14:53,400 --> 01:14:55,920
You can say what you want,
but we're not going anywhere.

1571
01:14:56,520 --> 01:14:58,960
With Vardy, without Vardy,
we're a good side.

1572
01:14:59,560 --> 01:15:02,920
[commentator] Leicester's momentum
is unstoppable.

1573
01:15:03,000 --> 01:15:04,280
[cheering]

1574
01:15:04,360 --> 01:15:07,080
It begins to feel inevitable.

1575
01:15:09,400 --> 01:15:12,160
Going into the Man U game,
if you win that,

1576
01:15:12,240 --> 01:15:15,680
then nothing could stop us
from being crowned champions.

1577
01:15:16,280 --> 01:15:18,880
[commentator] Leicester
have been doubted throughout.

1578
01:15:18,960 --> 01:15:22,760
They've answered every awkward question
thrown in their direction.

1579
01:15:23,280 --> 01:15:26,360
[Jamie] But it's not the easiest game
to go into knowing you need a win,

1580
01:15:26,440 --> 01:15:28,040
especially at Old Trafford.

1581
01:15:28,640 --> 01:15:31,200
[commentator] Confident start, this,
by Manchester United.

1582
01:15:31,280 --> 01:15:32,120
It's Lingard.

1583
01:15:32,200 --> 01:15:34,000
[King] They were all over us,
first 15, 20 minutes.

1584
01:15:34,080 --> 01:15:35,520
You could almost feel like

1585
01:15:35,600 --> 01:15:38,720
they were like, "Who's this team,
thinking they can win at our stadium?"

1586
01:15:38,800 --> 01:15:40,880
"Especially not Leicester.
They're not doing it."

1587
01:15:40,960 --> 01:15:42,640
[commentator] There's Martial!

1588
01:15:42,720 --> 01:15:45,160
[crowd cheering]

1589
01:15:46,400 --> 01:15:49,480
There's a lot of wrestling going on.
And Morgan nipped in.

1590
01:15:49,560 --> 01:15:52,360
[Morgan] The goal
where I scored against Man United

1591
01:15:52,440 --> 01:15:56,480
was a special moment, running back
towards the crowd and pointing at my mum.

1592
01:15:56,560 --> 01:16:00,720
[commentator] The captain, Wes Morgan,
runs to the Leicester fans.

1593
01:16:00,800 --> 01:16:02,600
[crowd cheering]

1594
01:16:04,720 --> 01:16:07,280
[Jamie] Didn't get the win
to be champions that day,

1595
01:16:07,360 --> 01:16:09,680
but it was another point
in the right direction.

1596
01:16:10,160 --> 01:16:11,360
[inaudible]

1597
01:16:11,440 --> 01:16:15,520
Even though Leicester got a point, it left
a window of opportunity for Tottenham.

1598
01:16:15,600 --> 01:16:18,600
'Cause, mathematically, they could
still become champions themselves.

1599
01:16:19,200 --> 01:16:22,600
[commentator] The ultimate moment
will be delayed for Leicester,

1600
01:16:22,680 --> 01:16:25,480
but the onus now on their rivals Spurs.

1601
01:16:25,560 --> 01:16:28,560
[Tanner] The very next day,
Tottenham had to go to Chelsea and win

1602
01:16:28,640 --> 01:16:31,000
to keep the title race alive.

1603
01:16:31,080 --> 01:16:35,760
If Tottenham didn't get a result
against Chelsea,

1604
01:16:36,280 --> 01:16:37,520
then we'll be crowned champions

1605
01:16:37,600 --> 01:16:39,480
'cause mathematically
they couldn't catch us.

1606
01:16:39,560 --> 01:16:41,880
[fans yelling indistinctly]

1607
01:16:41,960 --> 01:16:44,400
[kid] Danny Drinkwater!

1608
01:16:44,480 --> 01:16:47,840
[Morgan] Vards was like, "Guys,
we're gonna watch the game at my house."

1609
01:16:47,920 --> 01:16:50,640
[fans yelling indistinctly]

1610
01:16:50,720 --> 01:16:52,200
[kid] Danny, Danny Drinkwater!

1611
01:16:52,280 --> 01:16:53,560
[Rebekah] He calls me.

1612
01:16:53,640 --> 01:16:57,000
He goes, "All the lads are coming back
to watch the Chelsea game."

1613
01:16:57,080 --> 01:16:58,560
[camera shutters clicking]

1614
01:16:58,640 --> 01:17:00,720
And I was like, "What, everyone?"

1615
01:17:00,800 --> 01:17:02,800
Yeah, thought it'd be a great idea.

1616
01:17:02,880 --> 01:17:05,600
-[camera shutters clicking]
-[fans speaking indistinctly]

1617
01:17:05,680 --> 01:17:08,200
[Rebekah] Word had already clearly
started to get around

1618
01:17:08,280 --> 01:17:11,400
because fans start
turning up at our house,

1619
01:17:11,480 --> 01:17:13,560
standing outside of the gate.

1620
01:17:13,640 --> 01:17:16,720
Add I was like, "Whoa, they--
Leicester have not done it yet."

1621
01:17:16,800 --> 01:17:18,400
[crowd chattering]

1622
01:17:18,480 --> 01:17:22,560
[commentator] It is a night when
Leicester's like a child on Christmas Eve,

1623
01:17:22,640 --> 01:17:24,480
flirts with the butterflies,

1624
01:17:24,560 --> 01:17:28,840
and thrills at the proximity
of glorious utopia.

1625
01:17:28,920 --> 01:17:32,520
We needed a draw or Chelsea to win.

1626
01:17:33,400 --> 01:17:35,760
And then no one can catch us
if that happened.

1627
01:17:36,280 --> 01:17:38,120
[Albrighton] But if Tottenham
beat Chelsea,

1628
01:17:38,200 --> 01:17:40,880
they'd catch up two points on us.

1629
01:17:40,960 --> 01:17:44,600
And you go to the following week.
It starts getting a bit edgy.

1630
01:17:44,680 --> 01:17:47,680
[commentator] This has never happened
in world sport.

1631
01:17:47,760 --> 01:17:54,320
A 5,000-to-1 shot has never won a title,
a race, or an encounter.

1632
01:17:54,400 --> 01:17:57,480
Leicester City Football Club
are on the verge

1633
01:17:57,560 --> 01:18:02,440
of rewriting local, national,
and international history books.

1634
01:18:02,520 --> 01:18:05,600
Everyone's like, "Yeah, pass me a beer.
I… I need one."

1635
01:18:05,680 --> 01:18:08,080
"I'm too nervous.
I can't get through it otherwise."

1636
01:18:08,680 --> 01:18:10,400
[commentator] Kane!

1637
01:18:10,480 --> 01:18:11,320
Scores!

1638
01:18:11,400 --> 01:18:12,600
[dramatic sting]

1639
01:18:12,680 --> 01:18:14,880
And Tottenham are alive! They're still--

1640
01:18:14,960 --> 01:18:17,520
[exhales sharply] Right, it's fine.
There's still time.

1641
01:18:17,600 --> 01:18:19,600
-[man] Oh no.
-No!

1642
01:18:19,680 --> 01:18:24,720
[commentator] Son scores. 2-0 Tottenham
on the cusp of halftime.

1643
01:18:25,320 --> 01:18:27,320
[King] Everyone's just sat there,
like, silence.

1644
01:18:27,400 --> 01:18:29,440
Okay, it's not gonna happen tonight.

1645
01:18:30,280 --> 01:18:34,440
[King] But then second half starts,
and Chelsea got one back.

1646
01:18:34,520 --> 01:18:37,120
[commentator] Lashes Chelsea back into it.

1647
01:18:37,200 --> 01:18:40,680
[Albrighton] I think the whole country,
apart from Tottenham fans,

1648
01:18:40,760 --> 01:18:42,200
wanted us to win the league.

1649
01:18:42,800 --> 01:18:45,240
Chelsea wanted to stop Tottenham
winning the league,

1650
01:18:45,320 --> 01:18:47,440
and obviously do it for Claudio as well.

1651
01:18:48,160 --> 01:18:51,000
And then Eden Hazard… [laughing]

1652
01:18:51,080 --> 01:18:53,960
…came up with something spectacular.

1653
01:18:54,760 --> 01:18:56,840
[commentator] Diego Costa. Eden Hazard!

1654
01:18:56,920 --> 01:18:59,240
-[crowd roars]
-Glorious goal.

1655
01:18:59,840 --> 01:19:01,280
Leicester's goal.

1656
01:19:01,800 --> 01:19:04,520
We all went crazy.
Started jumping on each other.

1657
01:19:04,600 --> 01:19:05,560
But the game's not over.

1658
01:19:05,640 --> 01:19:06,840
[all chanting]

1659
01:19:06,920 --> 01:19:09,400
[commentator] Brace yourself, Leicester.
Brace yourself.

1660
01:19:09,920 --> 01:19:11,160
It's happening.

1661
01:19:12,000 --> 01:19:14,000
It is about to happen.

1662
01:19:14,080 --> 01:19:15,480
-[man 1] Blow it!
-Blow it.

1663
01:19:15,560 --> 01:19:16,920
[man 2] Ooh.

1664
01:19:17,000 --> 01:19:20,320
[commentator] The full-time whistle
has gone at Stamford Bridge.

1665
01:19:20,400 --> 01:19:24,560
Leicester City
are the Premier League champions.

1666
01:19:24,640 --> 01:19:26,280
[cheering]

1667
01:19:26,360 --> 01:19:28,680
[triumphant music playing]

1668
01:19:28,760 --> 01:19:33,240
Seeing that full-time whistle go,
I was just buzzing. Absolutely buzzing.

1669
01:19:35,280 --> 01:19:36,680
[camera shutter clicking]

1670
01:19:38,520 --> 01:19:41,600
We was all laughing at each other,
going, "What? We've won the league."

1671
01:19:41,680 --> 01:19:42,960
"Like, this is incredible."

1672
01:19:43,040 --> 01:19:48,840
♪ Champions! Champions! Olé! Olé! Olé! ♪

1673
01:19:50,480 --> 01:19:54,640
The emotions just erupt out of you,
and you just can't believe it's happened.

1674
01:19:54,720 --> 01:19:57,480
[all speaking indistinctly]

1675
01:19:57,560 --> 01:20:00,840
It was just the best feeling.
Best feeling.

1676
01:20:00,920 --> 01:20:03,200
[all yelling]

1677
01:20:04,800 --> 01:20:08,840
Leicester are the English Premier League
champions. Can you believe it?

1678
01:20:08,920 --> 01:20:10,080
[cheering]

1679
01:20:10,680 --> 01:20:14,680
[reporter] Outside their stadium,
Leicester fans partied long into the night

1680
01:20:14,760 --> 01:20:18,200
to celebrate one of football's
most remarkable feats.

1681
01:20:18,280 --> 01:20:19,320
Yeah, we've done it!

1682
01:20:19,400 --> 01:20:21,840
♪ Olé, champions! Olé! Olé… ♪

1683
01:20:21,920 --> 01:20:25,160
There's no doubt
that is the greatest achievement,

1684
01:20:25,240 --> 01:20:26,920
I think, in the history of our game.

1685
01:20:27,000 --> 01:20:28,160
What Leicester have done…

1686
01:20:28,240 --> 01:20:30,280
-[horns honking]
-…is give inspiration

1687
01:20:30,360 --> 01:20:35,240
to every manager, player, supporter
that one day, that could be them.

1688
01:20:35,320 --> 01:20:38,320
It's amazing.
We're never gonna do this again.

1689
01:20:38,400 --> 01:20:40,440
[crowd chattering]

1690
01:20:40,520 --> 01:20:42,800
[commentator] This is unique.

1691
01:20:44,120 --> 01:20:47,200
A modern-day football miracle.

1692
01:20:47,280 --> 01:20:48,880
[crowd cheering]

1693
01:20:48,960 --> 01:20:51,560
They have blown their rivals away.

1694
01:20:52,960 --> 01:20:56,160
They have blown us all away, in truth.

1695
01:20:57,200 --> 01:20:59,760
Premier League Champions 2016,

1696
01:21:00,400 --> 01:21:03,480
the amazing Leicester City.

1697
01:21:03,560 --> 01:21:05,560
[crowd roars]

1698
01:21:10,720 --> 01:21:13,800
[triumphant music playing]

1699
01:21:21,600 --> 01:21:22,800
[Jamie] It was unbelievable.

1700
01:21:22,880 --> 01:21:26,960
That moment there, I think,
is every footballer's dream.

1701
01:21:27,040 --> 01:21:29,040
[crowd continues cheering]

1702
01:21:31,560 --> 01:21:33,000
[crowd cheering]

1703
01:21:33,080 --> 01:21:35,280
[crowd whistling]

1704
01:21:36,360 --> 01:21:38,800
[gentle music playing]

1705
01:21:54,440 --> 01:21:56,600
[Morgan] It wasn't a fluke for Vards.

1706
01:21:56,680 --> 01:22:02,920
He went on to achieve Golden Boot,
FA Cup, Community Shield,

1707
01:22:03,000 --> 01:22:04,120
Team of the Seasons.

1708
01:22:05,720 --> 01:22:08,320
Coming from his beginnings,

1709
01:22:09,000 --> 01:22:11,240
how late he got into the game,

1710
01:22:12,120 --> 01:22:15,960
I don't think there's anyone out there
that's ever accomplished that much,

1711
01:22:16,040 --> 01:22:17,520
considering the circumstances.

1712
01:22:17,600 --> 01:22:20,200
[gentle music playing]

1713
01:22:20,280 --> 01:22:22,920
[Jamie] I walk in here,
it's just achievements.

1714
01:22:23,560 --> 01:22:27,080
But personally,
it's definitely the keeping grounded,

1715
01:22:28,120 --> 01:22:29,920
don't let yourself get carried away.

1716
01:22:31,080 --> 01:22:35,160
Like, if things had been different,
there'd have been none of this here, so…

1717
01:22:36,640 --> 01:22:40,520
[Rebekah] I would love Jamie to be able
to just be a bit more reflective

1718
01:22:40,600 --> 01:22:44,280
on how incredible of a career

1719
01:22:45,520 --> 01:22:47,600
that he has and that he continues to have.

1720
01:22:47,680 --> 01:22:50,800
But he's so dismissive
of what he's achieved.

1721
01:22:51,840 --> 01:22:55,360
[Jamie] I'll think about all that
when I'm retired, when I'm done.

1722
01:22:56,960 --> 01:22:58,520
All the stuff like that

1723
01:22:59,040 --> 01:23:01,480
is gonna be something
that'll get thought about quite a lot

1724
01:23:01,560 --> 01:23:04,280
once I do eventually hang my boots up.

1725
01:23:04,800 --> 01:23:06,960
[interviewer] When do you think
you'll retire?

1726
01:23:07,040 --> 01:23:10,360
[scoffs] Fucking hell, that's the big
million-dollar question. Um…

1727
01:23:10,440 --> 01:23:11,640
[sucks teeth]

1728
01:23:11,720 --> 01:23:12,680
I don't know.

1729
01:23:14,560 --> 01:23:18,040
I'm a firm believer of
your legs will tell you when it's time.

1730
01:23:18,560 --> 01:23:21,240
I've still got that hunger,
I've still got that drive.

1731
01:23:23,040 --> 01:23:27,040
Leicester, right back from day one,
they gave me the shot.

1732
01:23:27,560 --> 01:23:30,800
And I think I've repaid them
the whole way.

1733
01:23:34,640 --> 01:23:39,840
We have got some huge breaking news.
Jamie Vardy is gonna leave Leicester City

1734
01:23:39,920 --> 01:23:42,960
at the end of the season
after 13 years at the club.

1735
01:23:43,040 --> 01:23:45,520
[Jamie] It's finally time
to call it a day.

1736
01:23:45,600 --> 01:23:47,120
I think the timing is right.

1737
01:23:48,240 --> 01:23:50,360
Just wanna sincerely thank you all.

1738
01:23:50,440 --> 01:23:53,960
Leicester will always, always
have a massive place in my heart.

1739
01:23:54,040 --> 01:23:58,080
This is my goodbye,
but you will see me again soon, I promise.

1740
01:23:59,080 --> 01:24:02,560
[chattering indistinctly]

1741
01:24:02,640 --> 01:24:05,040
[girl] When will you know
which club you're going to?

1742
01:24:05,120 --> 01:24:06,160
Um…

1743
01:24:06,680 --> 01:24:08,840
-I'll know…
-Yeah?

1744
01:24:08,920 --> 01:24:09,960
…when you stop asking.

1745
01:24:10,040 --> 01:24:10,960
[kids laugh]

1746
01:24:11,040 --> 01:24:12,840
Not gonna not tell you.

1747
01:24:17,400 --> 01:24:18,760
I'm dreading this one.

1748
01:24:19,840 --> 01:24:21,760
[girl] It's actually nice.

1749
01:24:21,840 --> 01:24:24,080
It's what? Oh, is this one a nice one?

1750
01:24:24,560 --> 01:24:25,600
Yeah?

1751
01:24:28,640 --> 01:24:32,400
Well, that's not very nice, is it?
What do you want to put me in the bin for?

1752
01:24:32,480 --> 01:24:34,640
[girl] Only if you score a goal.

1753
01:24:34,720 --> 01:24:36,560
[Jamie laughs, kisses]

1754
01:24:36,640 --> 01:24:37,560
Cheers, Mins.

1755
01:24:38,280 --> 01:24:40,240
Did Daddy a nice card? Did you?

1756
01:24:40,320 --> 01:24:42,520
Till it said you better score
or you're going in the bin.

1757
01:24:42,600 --> 01:24:44,680
Oh no. Did you actually? [laughs]

1758
01:24:44,760 --> 01:24:45,600
[girl] Yeah.

1759
01:24:45,680 --> 01:24:46,920
[chattering indistinctly]

1760
01:24:47,000 --> 01:24:48,920
[gentle music playing]

1761
01:24:51,080 --> 01:24:53,080
-[Jamie] Ready? Yeah?
-[girl] Yeah.

1762
01:24:53,160 --> 01:24:54,360
One last time?

1763
01:24:55,640 --> 01:24:56,480
Yeah.

1764
01:24:58,040 --> 01:24:58,880
Love you.

1765
01:24:59,400 --> 01:25:01,920
[crowd chanting]

1766
01:25:02,720 --> 01:25:05,720
[commentator] Today's Jamie Vardy's
last game for Leicester.

1767
01:25:05,800 --> 01:25:10,440
His 500th appearance
and targeting a 200th goal for the club.

1768
01:25:10,520 --> 01:25:13,240
[crowd cheering]

1769
01:25:13,320 --> 01:25:16,280
[inspirational music playing]

1770
01:25:27,000 --> 01:25:28,440
[inaudible]

1771
01:25:30,280 --> 01:25:31,360
[inaudible]

1772
01:25:34,640 --> 01:25:38,480
[commentator] Brilliant run here.
James Justin. Jamie Vardy!

1773
01:25:38,560 --> 01:25:40,080
[crowd roars]

1774
01:25:40,160 --> 01:25:42,240
[inaudible]

1775
01:25:44,520 --> 01:25:46,160
[inaudible]

1776
01:25:46,800 --> 01:25:49,560
[commentator] A 200th goal for the club.

1777
01:25:49,640 --> 01:25:53,280
There was just no way
this wouldn't be his day.

1778
01:25:53,360 --> 01:25:58,360
[announcer over PA] Leicester's
number nine, Jamie Vardy!

1779
01:25:58,440 --> 01:26:00,600
[crowd cheering]

1780
01:26:01,640 --> 01:26:04,880
Thank you for taking myself
and my family in as one of your own.

1781
01:26:04,960 --> 01:26:06,920
And I hope I've repaid everything for you.

1782
01:26:07,000 --> 01:26:10,360
[inspirational music continues]

1783
01:26:13,520 --> 01:26:16,160
[Morris] What odds would you give
Jamie Vardy to do what he did?

1784
01:26:16,240 --> 01:26:19,560
I say a million to one,
but I don't think it's a million to--

1785
01:26:19,640 --> 01:26:21,840
It could be a billion to one,
could be ten billion to one.

1786
01:26:22,920 --> 01:26:27,040
That is, in my humble opinion, the biggest
sporting underdog story of all time,

1787
01:26:27,120 --> 01:26:30,040
to come from where he's come from,
to achieve what he's achieved,

1788
01:26:30,120 --> 01:26:32,160
with everything
that he's had to deal with.

1789
01:26:32,240 --> 01:26:35,080
[inspirational music continues]

1790
01:26:35,160 --> 01:26:40,360
[Jamie] I couldn't tell you how I did it,
how it happened, why it happened.

1791
01:26:40,880 --> 01:26:44,400
But it's… It is crazy.

1792
01:26:48,120 --> 01:26:51,720
But I know full well that working hard…

1793
01:26:51,800 --> 01:26:52,800
[laughing]

1794
01:26:52,880 --> 01:26:56,800
…never giving up, and having
the right people supporting you…

1795
01:26:59,080 --> 01:27:01,120
to come home, you got a family
that loves you,

1796
01:27:01,200 --> 01:27:03,240
wants you to be the best that you can be,

1797
01:27:04,400 --> 01:27:06,040
you become what you believe.

1798
01:27:08,400 --> 01:27:09,880
I'm definitely proof of that.

1799
01:27:13,320 --> 01:27:14,840
[music fades]

1800
01:27:14,920 --> 01:27:17,320
[exhilarating music playing]

1801
01:27:41,000 --> 01:27:44,200
[music builds]

1802
01:28:02,480 --> 01:28:05,200
[music fades]

1803
01:28:07,360 --> 01:28:11,120
[gentle music playing]

1804
01:28:17,560 --> 01:28:20,360
[projector whirs, stops]