Jamie Vardy is a man on fire at the moment.
Everything the Leicester striker touches at the moment turns to goal.
The lightning-quick frontman stepped off the bench to score and drag England level in the victory over Wales on Thursday.
Vardy is in incredible shape so you’d probably imagine that the 29-year-old would put his success and goal-scoring purple patch down to an impeccable training, diet and gym routine.
Not exactly. The England star’s super sub heroics in Lens were partly fuelled by Red Bull and nicotine, according to The National.
Jamie Vardy has got the body of a UFC fighter. pic.twitter.com/dK7tbJ2SpU
— Ray Addo (@Ray_Addoz) December 15, 2015
While they’re probably not considered classic sports supplements by most, Vardy says they work for him and they’re fine with the FA as caffeine and nicotine are not on the banned list of the World Anti Doping Agency.
“They’ve been checked with the medical team and there’s nothing wrong with them,” he said.
“I wouldn’t call it a diet, the Red Bull was just to wake me up in the morning.
“It’s not a regular thing whereby I have one every morning. It’s just something I felt I needed that day.”
Vardy, who was snapped in the England camp with a can of Red Bull and a tin of chewing tobacco on Tuesday, admits he doesn’t even lift weights like many other elite footballers.
“If I go in the gym it will slow me down. I don’t go in for weights or anything like that. People have tried and not succeeded. Each and every person is different and this is my way.
“I’m sure if someone else tried doing what I do then it probably wouldn’t work for them.”
But if this bizarre diet keeps him scoring, then good on him.
