GOOGLE ‘The next Jamie Vardy’ and, in less than a second, you will be greeted with 641,000 results. From Stocksbridge Park Steels to Premier League champion, England international and Hollywood movie, the striker is Non-League’s poster boy.
In a world where many Premier League clubs buy their talent from abroad, it is refreshing to know there are a number of players started at grassroots level and battled their way to the very top.
BASFORD UNITED have dropped out of the Evo-Stik NPL Division One South play-off places after being deducted three points for fielding an ineligible player.
IF you’re going to allow a manager to almost totally rip apart your squad and make bold decisions, you may as well let it be one who found Jamie Vardy playing for Stocksbridge Park Steels.