Lancaster Rover

It's not a pass, it's a missed penalty. As soon as Messi touches the ball its in play.

Because he signed for Halifax in about 2010, then Fleetwood. Halifax were part time and Fleetwood full time, so to say he was playing amateur football for the 10 years preceding 2012 is utter b*llocks I'm afraid.

I have to work near Fleetwood one day a week so have a bit of local knowledge. Loads of clubs looked at Vardy during his time at fleetwood but there were certain well known aspects of his lifestyle that put big clubs off at the time, that and his pricetag. At the time Fleetwoods owner was pumping silly money in and had no intention of letting him go for less that 1ml. He was seen as too high a risk for that sort of money.

Whilst its great he is scoring goals I think we need to temper expectations here a bit and look at the standard he is playing at. Scottish League 1 is about the equivalent of the bottom teams in League 2 and the top of the conference.