Months after Jamie Vardy’s goals fired Leicester to the Premier League title, the 29-year-old is due to launch his autobiography.
Jamie Vardy: From Nowhere, My Story, charts the striker’s rise from non-league to international football, and is being serialised in The Sun.
In the latest extract, Vardy discusses how he would repeatedly drink a glass of port the night before every game in the 2015-16 season, claiming that it helped him to switch off and sleep better as he prepared for a match.
“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,’ he writes.
“I’m not normally superstitious but from the moment I scored against Sunderland on the opening day, I didn’t want to change anything.
“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.”
Earlier in the week, another extract explained how Vardy had struggled to recover from a dead leg during his early days with Leicester after repeatedly consuming Skittles vodka.
