He may have gained an unfair reputation for being a blue WKD aficionado based solely on his appearance since his free scoring rise from non-league nobody to Premier League winning record breaker, but it would seem that said reputation was once upon a time very close to the truth for the former Fleetwood Town man, according to Leicester's vice-chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha.
Speaking to Thai magazine A Day, Srivaddhanaprabha let slip that Vardy used to turn up to training sessions drunk in an incredibly frank and enlightening interview, which shows just how much the 29-year-old striker has improved and developed both on and off the pitch since his arrival at the King Power stadium.
"I was against signing Jamie Vardy in the first place. I asked Nigel Pearson and Steve Walsh about him, checked the scout reports, and I started to believe he would be a good signing."
"Back then, I think he didn't even have what it took to play in the Premier League. The day we bought him, he came to me and thanked me for changing his life. He had never had this much money so he was over the moon already.
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"He went straight from the bottom to the Championship, which eventually led him to start drinking booze every single day. We had no idea what to do. I didn't know about this until someone told me that he came to train while he was still drunk."
"He said he didn't know what to do with his life. He'd never earned such a large amount of money. So I asked him 'what's your dream? How do you think your life should be? After that he simply quit drinking and started working hard in training."
Then again, there is lot of sugar in blue WKD's, so perhaps he's just substituted lager for the favoured alcopop of sixth form parties and benefited from the energy boost the horrific tasting, teeth itching blue fluid provides in order to tear arse round the pitch for 90 minutes a week.
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(H/T 101 Great Goals)
Topics: jamie vardy, Leicester City, Football