Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer have awarded Leicester City’s Jamie Vardy with their Moment of the Week award on their podcast.
The Foxes faced Bristol City at the King Power this weekend. They came away with a well-deserved win, somehow by just a single goal.
Wilfred Ndidi went down and a penalty was awarded. This gave Jamie Vardy a chance from 12 yards to open the scoring.
Of course, he duly obliged and put the hosts 1-0 up. What happened next was prime Vardy.
The penalty goes in and he’s off to the other end of the King Power. He then gives a bit to the travelling Robins fans.
“Housery” of the finest order from the Foxes’ number nine.
What have Lineker and Shearer said about Jamie Vardy?
On their podcast, The Rest Is Football, the former England strikers were discussing their ‘moment of the week’.
There was only one winner in Lineker’s eyes: “I know I’m a little bit biased. I’m going to go with Jamie Vardy.”
On another note, it is clear the former Fox likes the new league: “He scored a penalty for Leicester. It was 1-0, top of the Championship, it’s so much fun in the Championship, I must say.”
Describing the goal to his colleague, he continued: “He scored the goal. He’s obviously getting a bit of stick from the Bristol fans, I think about his wife.
“Every game I’ve been to at Leicester he does from the opposing fans, and he ran, a little bit like remember Adebayor? He ran the whole length of the pitch and gave it to the Bristol City travelling supporters.”
Lineker’s partner in crime, Shearer was all for the banter from Vardy.
“He should be allowed to do that. I don’t think there’s any harm in that, because you get so much stick-off away fans and so much abuse.”
The ex-Premier League Golden Boot winner has received plenty of stick over the years and deals with it like nobody else.
The all-time Premier League scorer believes there should be more like Vardy: “You’re getting called so many names. Why shouldn’t you be allowed to do what he did?
“I say well done him, more of it.”
The Leicester man is loved and he’s never going to change, long live the “housery” he brings to English football.