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Vardy drinks pints and only eats pizza the night before a game, says ex-Leicester defender De Laet

Jamie Vardy’s goalscoring escapades are fuelled by pizza, pints and port, according to his former Leicester team-mate Ritchie De Laet.

Vardy this season broke into the top 20 Premier League goalscorers of all time, having taken the unorthodox route from non-league to the top of the English game.

According to De Laet, his pre-match fuel is far from the chicken and rice staple one might expect from a top-level athlete but, with more than 200 career goals to his name, it seems to work for him.

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