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Jamie Vardy has revealed one of the secrets behind his almost incessant energy on the pitch, and it comes in the form of a pretty revolting sounding match day diet.
Vardy's autobiography is currently being serialised in The Sun, with his energy drink and omelette based diet being featured in today's edition.
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"With a traditional 3pm Saturday kick-off, I'll have a can of Red Bull as soon as I wake up, which is gone in 30 seconds.
"I don't have breakfast and won't eat anything until I have a cheese-and-ham omelette with baked beans at 11.30am. I wash that down with another Red Bull, which I also neck quickly. While we're waiting and killing a bit of time, I have a double espresso, normally with centre-half Marcin Wasilewski.
"We get into the dressing room an hour and a half before kick-off, and I'll have a third can of Red Bull straight away."
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We're not sure how having a mess of eggs, energy drinks and strong Italian coffee swilling around your stomach can possibly be good for you, but it seems to have the desired effect on Vardy, who's been sticking religiously to the regimen since the beginning of the 13/14 season. Since then, Vardy has won the Premier League with Leicester and become an England international.
As if that wasn't enough, Vardy has started drinking port the night before a game, like some middle aged aristocrat. Although his habit of drinking it out of a Lucozade bottle isn't quite so refined.
"I can't say why it started, because I genuinely don't know, but I decided to drink a glass of port on the eve of every game in the 2015-16 season. I'm not normally superstitious but from the moment I scored against Sunderland on the opening day, I didn't want to change anything."
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"I fill a small plastic water or Lucozade bottle to halfway and just sip the port while watching television. It tastes like Ribena to me, and it helps me switch off and get to sleep a bit easier the night before a game."
Whatever happened to a bowl of pasta and some emergency half time Jaffa Cakes?
(H/T The Sun)
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