LEICESTER STAR JAMIE Vardy admits he initially thought stories regarding a possible film being made about his inspirational rise to prominence were false.
The 29-year-old England international confirmed he has spoken to Hollywood screenwriter Adrian Butchart, who appears set to make a movie based on him.
Vardy has risen to stardom at Premier League leaders Leicester, a club he joined from the fifth-tier of English football in 2012.
The marksman has become a role model to footballers in the doldrums of English football, having set a new record for scoring in 11 consecutive top-flight matches this term.
But Vardy says he couldn’t quite comprehend talk of a film about him hitting the cinemas in the near future when he first heard about the possibility.
“I met him [Butchart] and I asked him if he was mad, to be honest with you,” Vardy said.
“It was in the papers and I didn’t know if it was true, but it turned out it was. That is up to them. If they want to do it [the film], there is nothing I can do.”
Vardy’s 19 league goals have helped Leicester top the table by five points ahead of second-placed Tottenham as Claudio Ranieri’s men close in on the unlikeliest of titles.
The ex-Fleetwood striker is currently away on England international duty with five Spurs players - Harry Kane, Dele Alli, Eric Dier, Danny Rose and Kyle Walker – but he says talk between them has been about PlayStation games rather than winning the league.
“We have been talking about Call of Duty,” he added.
“We have not all played on it together yet – but I got informed that one of the lads just camps in a corner and waits for someone to run past him so he can get him — so I’m looking forward to playing them.”
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Great save by Kelleher near the end. Comfortable afternoon for him
Top player.
Super performance and result albeit against a woeful Watford. Unlikely to be a worse performance by any PL team this season. Salah is unbelievable and his goal was magical, give him the contract his performances and goals deserve. Great to see Firmino scoring. Though Kelleher had nothing to do he kept his concentration to make a very good save at the end. Gonna be a tight title race. Surprised Salah and Mane played the 90 minutes, Minamino could have done with game time especially against that Watford team.
Mo Salah is WOW!!! a pleasure to watch him…..Firmino not bad either : )
Time to sack Ranieri…….
@John S: dilly ding dilly dong
@Heckler davies: dilly ding, dilly gone
Class win and 3 more handy points. We will be hard to stop This season as we put last seasons blip behind us
Danny Rose will sleep tonight. Great performance against an albeit poor side!!
Give Mo all the money. Almost 0% chance of being able to replace him
Lewandowski and Salah are the best players in the world on current form.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a PL side as bad as that Watford side today….if they lost 10-0 it wouldn’t have been a surprise! Woeful…
@Ottomaaan: you forgot to mention that they were up against a solid side with a rampant front three, there, I fixed it for you…. :)
@Gordon Larney: no need to fix anything. That was the worst performance I’ve ever seen from a PL side, dreadful stuff and Liverpool could have put 10 past them.
@Ottomaaan: have to agree. I was at the game and never seen such a bad performance from a PL team.
Salah in great form. But how long canhe hold that form? He has 20-25 goals in him a season, but he’s up and down. If he held this form, he’d be close to 40 goals?
Bigger tests against Athletico and United on the way.
@Finn Faulkner: did you like your own comment…
@Finn Faulkner: how long can he do that. ? He has been doing it for the last 4 seasons. 104 goals in 166 games in the Premier league but you think he should score more. Okay so
@Finn Faulkner: you’re gonna need bigger bait on that hook ….
@WESHALLNOTBEMOVED: But by that metric 4 seasons at 40 goals would be 160 goals. He hasn t done that. But my point is that if he can keep that killer hat on his head for a prolonged period, and with our squad almost injury free, he could break records for us. I’m HOPING he keeps this lethal form indefinitely. He still can’t be put in the Messi/Ronaldo category until he starts being seriously clinical. I’d love to see him win the Balloon d’Or this year (or the next)
@len len: No, but seeing as you need likes, here, have mine. Have a lovely day.
@WESHALLNOTBEMOVED: you included his Chelsea stats there, it’s 102 in 153 for Liverpool
@Shane Roche: It’s still an amazing number of goals per season, but I think he can go even further, he needs to keep this current form. Biggest tests are against Athletico and then United.
That salah. Goal was pure roy of the rovers.. Pure art.. He must be a great dancer..
As good as Liverpool are, and they are really good. This in my opinion is all about Klopp.