5 things you probably didn't know about Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy

#2 Vardy was a factory worker in his younger days

While most of the players his age were trying out for clubs or even being named in England squads for Euros and World Cups, Vardy was playing football more as a hobby than for the money.

Vardy’s family wasn’t exactly wealthy. His father was a crane worker while his mother was employed at a solicitors. Studies could never come to his rescue, and so he worked in a factory that made medical prosthetics where workers lifted carbon fibre pieces which were quite heavy, definitely too heavy for a young adult to lift.

“My job involved making splints for disabled people, but we had to do a lot of lifting into hot ovens and continually lifting things hundreds of times a day was damaging my back.”

That was all Vardy could manage. It wasn’t that he wanted to, but because he had to to make ends meet.