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30th Nov 2015

VIDEO: Jamie Vardy’s history making strike against FC Manchester 6 years ago was sensational

He doesn't score goals like this anymore

Kevin McGillicuddy

Jamie Vardy is already a history maker.

And Manchester  United fans looking at the English man striking his 11th goal in 11 games on Saturday might have thought to themselves that there was something oddly familiar about the player with the tight haircut slotting one past a goalkeeper representing a side from the city.

And they would have been dead right as it turns out that Vardy’s goal meant he was one of a select group of players who had scored against both FC Manchester and their upper league rival Manchester United.

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Mauricio Taricco did it, and our own Anthony Pilkington also managed the feat, but we doubt any of the goals were as memorable as this strike from 2009 as a 22-year-old Vardy ran the length of the pitch to score for Stockbridge Park steels in 2009,

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