Not long after Jamie Vardy joined Leicester City from Fleetwood in 2012, he asked to go back to non-league football. Briefly he considered being a nightclub rep in Ibiza.
When he was first called up for England three years later, he asked Leicester to invent an injury so that he didn’t have to go. He has also said that playing football under an assumed name would suit him.
It’s always been football without the fuss for Vardy but it’s hard to pull all that off when you score goals like he does.