LEICESTER ARE NEW ENGLAND CHAMPION

Tottenham Hotspur's failure to defeat Chelsea at
Stamford Bridge hands the title to the Foxes,

completing what is surely sport's most dramatic story
in history
The music starts; those horns, the strings and that
guitar riff. The gun barrel sequence, thrilling cinema-
goers since 1962, begins. The assassin tracks 007
across the screen in the familiar manner but the secret
agent turns as only he can; he fires his gun and fresh
blood trickles down in front of the camera lens...
"The name's Vardy. Jamie Vardy."
Unlikely? You bet. But still, according to the
bookmakers, it's 10 times more likely that Vardy now
moves to Hollywood to become the new James Bond
than it was for Leicester City to win the Premier
League title at the start of the season.
Vardy, freshly crowned the Football Writers' Player of
the Year, is currently available at odds of 500/1 to play
the quintessential British action hero in the new
franchise release. Leicester at the start of the season
were 5000/1 to win the Premier League - by far, the
longest odds offered on any winning team or individual
in the history of professional sports.
Earlier this season it was revealed that Adrian Butchart
- the Hollywood screenwriter behind the Goal trilogy -
wanted to make a movie about Vardy's rapid rise from
part-time football to the Premier League where he
scored in 11 consecutive games, marking a new
record.
Vardy's journey might well deserve to be chronicled but
the collective Leicester City story has overtaken their
striker's one and surely deserves the Hollywood
treatment. It's Rocky, it's Seabiscuit, it's Cool Runnings
if only the Jamaican bobsled team had actually won
the gold medal at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

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