Chris Wilder: 'You deserve to be in the pub with the career you’ve had, not the one Jamie Vardy’s got, so shut up!'

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Chris Wilder: 'You deserve to be in the pub with the career you’ve had, not the one Jamie Vardy’s got, so shut up!'
  • Vardy is a life-long Sheffield Wednesday fan.
  • Jamie's Leicester take on Sheffield United on Thursday.
  • The Blades' boss has praised the striker's incredible career ahead of the encounter.

"I go to the pub quite often after a win and it makes me smile when I’m sat in a company and people say, 'Yeah, I could have made it… I was a bit unlucky with injury… it could have been me'," Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder said ahead of Thursday's clash with Leicester City.

"Well, you know what, it wasn’t you because you didn’t do it. You didn’t get up off the canvas like Jamie Vardy did. You didn’t go and prove yourself and take the setbacks and keep going back.

"So you deserve to be in the pub with the career you’ve had, not the one Jamie Vardy’s got, so shut up! I’ve got a few pals like that who I need to tell to be quiet every now and again, and tell them to get back in their basket.

"Jamie keeps going, keeps scoring, so he deserves everything that comes his way, even though that’s from a Blade to an Owl."

Vardy is a life-long Sheffield Wednesday fan so he'll obviously be hoping to score against the Blades. Jamie was released from the Owls' youth academy in 2002 but revived his career at non-League Stocksbridge Park Steels - a club from Wilder's hometown.

Then Vardy had spells at Halifax Town and Fleetwood Town before joining Leicester in 2012. The Englishman was a key man to the Foxes' win the 2015/16 Premier League season.

SourceSky Sports
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