News about Jamie Vardy

The Championship promotion race is in full swing with Ipswich Town, Leicester City, Leeds United and Southampton, all in the hunt of a return to the Premier League via a top two finish. It certainly marks a considerable difference from mid February when Leicester were running away with the league, eight points clear of Leeds, 14 from Southampton and 18 ahead of Ipswich Town. Yet, just five points cover Ipswich in first to Southampton in fourth. Leicester are one point below Ipswich with a game-in-hand, and could go top with a draw in Saturday's early kick-off against West Brom. 

Leaders Leicester missed the chance to move clear at the top of the Championship as they suffered a shock 1-0 defeat away to relegation-threatened Plymouth, thanks to Mustapha Bundu's 21st-minute winner. Second-placed Ipswich remain level on points with the Foxes, with Leeds a point further back ahead of their games on Saturday with all three clubs currently having four matches left. Managerless Argyle climbed to 16th on the back of their first home win in seven, under the caretaker management team of director of football Neil Dewsnip and first-team coach Kevin Nancekivell and now sit five points clear of the bottom three.

As we approach the tail-end of the 2023-24 campaign, there's still plenty to be decided within the race for automatic promotion in the Championship.  Enzo Maresca's Leicester had seemed destined for an immediate return to the Premier League but their dwindling form of late has potentially derailed that.  Their recent stumble against Millwall has left the Foxes in desperate need of a win, as they sit just one point clear of both Leeds and Ipswich. 

Leicester City has a slim lead in the Championship table, and it will be interesting to see how their forwards can do the job when they fly to Millwall on Tuesday. The men of Enzo Maresca are heading to The Den for a difficult match against a team battling for their lives in order not to drop below League One, and with Ipswich Town and Leeds United pounding their necks, the pressure is firmly on. The Foxes have 88 points after 28 victories, four draws, and eight losses, and have won back-to-back victories to put them in a good spot to return to the Premier League for the first time.

JAMES SHARPE AT ASHTON GATE: how this Leicester City machine once pulled under Enzo Maresca. It was so slick and fast that it threatened to eat up all in front of them, and that was the reason for its return to the Premier League. The Marescalator has arrived aboard. Since losing to Bristol City due to Anis Mehmeti's winner, the club is coughing and splutters, and the black smoke that billows from it just thickens the grey clouds that threaten to engulf the club. How Leicester needed a result here to lift the skies after being fined by the Premier League for breaching its financial legislation last season and being put in jeopardy by the Football League, which had caused them to leave the league for a transfer bang.

LEWIS STEELE: The Championship is back for another jam-packed Easter season, with some teams making or breaking a team's promotion campaign, while others relegating for points in order to prevent dreaded relegation. Leicester won 13 games in the first 14 games back in the second tier after their fairytale era ended with relegation. However, the Championship is a marathon, not a sprint, and the Foxes have faltered, not a sprint.

Amir Khan, the current world champion, has offered to prepare Wayne Rooney against Jamie Vardy in a potential brawl. Rooney has been approached by KSI's promotion Misfits to discuss the possibility of the Manchester United legend appearing at one of their performances. Vardy, according to Khan, will be a good friend of the former striker in the 'Wagatha Christie' case, where Rebekah Vardy' lost her $3 million libel lawsuit against Coleen Rooney in 2022 after the latter accused her of leaking 'false information' about her personal life.

ADAM SHERGOLD AT THE MKM STADIUM: This dramatic, end-to-end match was the Championship at its best. Both Hull and Leicester fought for the victory but they weren't able to do it properly. So for all the great entertainment, the unexpected upshot was that neither were entirely satisfied. Leeds, the only happy ones on Friday night, beating Sheffield Wednesday to put them within three points of leaders Leicester. Or Norwich, whose thumping of Rotherham, boosted them over Hull and into play-off positions, eclipsing their goal difference into the bargain. However, nobody at MKM Stadium could protest about the incident, as Jamie Vardy's double-guaranted leaders Leicester did not suffer another costly setback in an engrossing promotion race.

Leicester managers believe they are at risk of breaking spending legislation, putting the club in danger of a points deduction in the future. Despite a recent stumble, the Foxes are expected to return to the Premier League right away, although off-field issues appear to cast a pall over the remainder of their campaign. Leicester were dropped from the top flight last season but they are currently in the Championship, but they are still leading the tournament in the final ten games of the season.

THE KING POWER STADIUM IS A STADIUM. Leicester City is enjoying an outstanding season, according to anyone. Chelsea is on track to return to the Premier League and also have a FA Cup quarter-final to look forward to later this month. However, a segment of Leicester fans had not warmed to boss Enzo Maresca even before Saturday's out-of-sorts performance against Queens Park Rangers, their third straight loss in a rare blip this season. Maresca, a disciple of Pep Guardiola from their time as a Manchester City employee, insists that his Leicester side control the ball and patiently probe opponents. Given the success of Leicester's side, the majority of visiting teams are more excited than excited.

Richard III, Jamie Vardy, and Walkers Crisps are two of the most popular Crisps. However, Leicester's new city has a new claim to fame. Experts have found that the East Midlands city is home to the country's fastest-talking people. Leicesterians talk at 255 words per minute (wpm) on an average, much more than the UK average of 189.8 wpm. Glasgow and Liverpool are among Glasgow and Liverpool's quick-talking cities, while Edinburgh, Birmingham, and Leeds are among the cities with the slowest-talking cities.

Erling Haaland has burst onto the scene in the last two years at Manchester City, scoring 36 goals in a campaign that saw his team win a historic Treble containing the Premier League title. The score was a record for a Premier League season, and with 12 games remaining, he has already added 17 to his total this season. However, the Norwegian doesn't even rank in the top scorers of the last five years, with no Manchester City players making the cut.

GRAHAM HILL AT THE KING POWER STADIUM: Enzo Maresca, Leicester's third home loss of the season, says nothing as he prepares for the top-two clash against Leeds on Friday. Middlesbrough shocked the King Power to complete a double over the Championship leaders thanks to a strong first-half showing. Boro's bestowed him the points, despite Michael Carrick's team's hemmingly at the end, as Jamie Vardy's 12th goal of the season gave Leicester hope. The Foxes are now nine points ahead of Leeds and 11 ahead of Southampton in third, with Maresca referring to this result as "one of those days."

RYAN WALKER KING POWER: Leicester City showed no signs of restraint by delivering one of their most controlled performances of the season in a 2-0 victory over Sheffield on Wednesday as first half goals from Abdul Fatawu and Jamie Vardy secured three Championship points. Both groups of supporters were packed out, with the hosts being spotted walking in to the ground wearing the phrase 'Premier League we're on our way back.' Perhaps starting the gun just early, but with a now 12-point lead at the top, it's understandable.

Rebekah Vardy's pulses were racing as she displayed her pert bottom in a sizzling black see-through gown on Friday. In her new Instagram video, the WAG, 41, showed off her curves, capturing her strutting a photoshoot set in two glamorous looks. The media actress boosted her jaw-dropping physique in the dazzling sleeveless number when she was caught walking from behind.

Although all attention has been focused on reducing the stigma of disposable vaping, a new legal breakthrough is sweeping through Britain's classrooms and making children sick. More than 200 schools have been warned that "snus' nicotine pouches are the 'new thing on the block,' according to Premier League footballers and TikTok influencers, who have been blamed for children being hooked on the illicit high. These modern pouches do not contain nicotine, unlike traditional snus, which have been illegal to purchase and sell in the United Kingdom since 1992, but they are also placed between the lip and gum so that the nicotine can be absorbed into the bloodstream. An alarming lack of regulation means that children under the age of 18 can now buy these addictive pouches, some of which have more than double the amount of nicotine in a pack of cigarettes.

GraHAM HILLS BET365 STADIUM : After a landslide victory at Stoke that gave his team 11 points ahead and 12 clear of third-placed Leeds, Enzo Maresca took aim at Leicester's skepticism followers. 'If any of the fans aren't positive or convinced, it doesn't matter to me.' The results were very good today, and the knowledge will make us stronger,' he said. Fans and the Foxes have been raving about the Maresca style, which has been albeit a winning one, that if his brand of football was not acknowledged.

Leicester beat Birmingham 3-0 in the FA Cup fifth round thanks to Jamie Vardy's eighth goal of the season. Vardy broke the deadlock with a header from Marc Albrighton's spectacular cross just 47 minutes before Yunus Akgun's thunderbolt on 72 minutes sealed Leicester's place in the fifth round. Dennis Praet, a midfielder for Birmingham, scored a third goal with a cool finish after 88 minutes, leaving Birmingham with a string of missed opportunities in the first half as the Blues lost for the first time under new manager Tony Mowbray.

TOM COLLOMOSSE: Jamie Vardy will have dreamed about it many times. Leicester City's man who dragged them into Premier League and FA Cup glory is on the winning streak, achieving the goals that have brought them back to the top flight. As the Foxes, the Championship's top-ranked Ipswich Town, face third-placed Ipswich Town, one of England's most popular players, is expected to return from a knee injury today. Vardy is expected to be the star of the show and win Leicester Leicester's victory, despite being relegated last season, one step closer to a return to an instant return after nearly two months out.

WONDERS OF THE PYRAMID: Just like that, we're now in the second half of the Championship season, with tables starting to get more organized, but there is a lot more to play for. With Leicester leading Ipswich Town by six points after the two shared a point each in their Boxing Day blockbuster brawl at Portman Road, the battle for supremacy is heating up. With Southampton chasing down the front-runners just five points behind the Tractor Boys, they will have to look in their rear-view mirrors, with fellow recently promoted Leeds not far behind either.

Fans of Leicester City taunted Wayne Rooney by wearing Jamie Vardy masks at the game dubbed the Wagatha Christie derby. Vardy and Rooney were supposed to face each other for the first time since the wives' feud. Vardy's return to action later that day due to a knee injury, but Leicester fans didn't stop mocking Rooney after they 3-2 victory over Birmingham City.

TOM COLLOMOSSE AT THE KING POWER STADIUM: Leicester City pushed for a prompt return to the Premier League after losing 3-1 to Birmingham City. As the Foxes extended their lead at the top of the table to three points, Stephy Mavididi and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall scored a three-point victory. Jamie Vardy may have missed out on the WAGatha Christie derby due to injury, but it's fair to say he has the last laugh over Birmingham boss Wayne Rooney.

The case has already spawned television dramas, a West End show, and a Disney+ documentary, but the most recent instalment of the WAGatha Christie drama will be broadcast live at St Andrew's stadium in Birmingham on Monday night. Wayne Rooney's Birmingham City will face Jamie Vardy's Leicester City in a notorious public spat and legal case involving their wives Coleen and Rebekah, although the Foxes' talisman will still be in focus due to injury. Since Rooney was appointed as the Blues boss in October, the Championship match has morphed into appointment viewing.

MATT BARLOW: Well, if there is a change of heart, the Vardys can barely blame them, and they came stumbling into St Andrew's right before kick-off. Late arrivals in the public gallery have sparked, triggering clattering chairs and a hasty reordering of the seating scheme and audible gasps from onlookers shocked by their inability. You never know, this could be one last chance to enjoy a morsel of revenge, as well as a small victory in reaction to the Rooneys' courtroom rinsing.