Jamie Vardy's rise reads like an old-fashioned comic book

Jamie Vardy's rise from the wilderness of non-League football to playing for England, scoring in 10 consecutive Premier League matches and leading Leicester City to the top of the table reads like a story from an outdated comic book.
These days, potential top-class players are spotted at the age of eight or nine by highly-trained academy scouts and nurtured through their formative years by nutritionists, sport scientists, and finely-tuned by development trainers and coaches.
They do not normally reach the top after being convicted of assault, placed under police curfew with an electronic tag to monitor their movements and by playing for minor league clubs like Stocksbridge Park Steels, Halifax and Fleetwood Town.
That has been Vardy's unlikely climb to the top and he is now just one match away from equalling a scoring record set in the 1950s.