Jamie Vardy: The last underdog
The Slow Newscast
Alice Sandelson
4.6 • 894 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
After thirteen years, Jamie Vardy is leaving Leicester City. His time at the club is an example of not one, but two underdogs succeeding against the odds. Could anything like this happen again in the Premier League?
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| 0:00.0 | The Observer. |
| 0:08.9 | Hello, it's Claudia here and you're listening to the slow newscast from The Observer. |
| 0:14.5 | This week, David versus Goliath. |
| 0:18.5 | After 13 years, Jamie Vardy has left Leicester City Football Club, and his time there is an |
| 0:24.4 | example of not one, but two underdogs succeeding against the odds. |
| 0:29.6 | A true feel-good sport story. |
| 0:32.7 | But with increasing amounts of money flooding into football and the pressures that come |
| 0:36.9 | with it, can something, or someone, like Jamie Vardy, ever really happen again? |
| 0:43.7 | My colleague Paul Hayward, contributing sports editor at The Observer, reflects on a sporting fairy tale. |
| 0:50.6 | Over to Paul. Garner's in there. |
| 1:00.0 | Drives a shot. |
| 1:03.0 | It's early October in 2009, over in the red side of Manchester, |
| 1:08.0 | when a scrawny striker picks up the ball inside his own |
| 1:12.3 | half. |
| 1:13.3 | A decent ball out. |
| 1:15.1 | As he passes over the halfway mark, he glances left. |
| 1:18.7 | He needs to play it left. |
| 1:19.9 | Nobody's there yet. |
| 1:20.9 | Brings it inside. |
| 1:22.7 | He runs at a lone defender in red. |
| 1:25.7 | Three others are chasing him. Oh, what a good goal! What a good goal! |
| 1:31.3 | He runs diagonally across the pitch before slipping the ball into the corner of the net. |
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