Page 4 - The Deal Roundup - February 2019

Look For The Golden
Nuggets -
by Alex Narey.

It is now almost three years to the day since, on a cold and wet Saturday afternoon at
Leicester City’s King Power Stadium, Jamie Vardy (pictured in his Fleetwood Town
days) latched onto a Christian Fuchs through-ball before slotting a powerful low drive past
Manchester United’s David de Gea. The significance of the goal, which saw Vardy break Ruud
van Nistelrooy’s record of scoring in ten consecutive Premier League matches, was clear
evidence of a footballer at the height of his powers.
Vardy’s rise from such humble Non-League
beginnings to the bright lights of the Premier League
has been well documented. From Stocksbridge
Park Steels, via FC Halifax and Fleetwood Town -
England recognition would follow off the back of
his blazing run with Leicester City. Here was the
‘poster boy’ for what Non-League football could
deliver. So much so, in fact, that scouts up and
down the country are now looking for that next gem; a player with a price tag that wouldn’t
even be picked up on most Premier League clubs’ balance sheets. But while the new wave
of Non-League stars continue to take their places in the higher leagues and beyond – former
Kettering striker Calum Wilson’s call-up to the England squad being the latest example of
such – the lack of managers being given their chance remains a cause of major frustration..

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