‘All Good Things Come To An End’ – Vardy On Why It’s Time

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‘All Good Things Come To An End’ – Vardy On Why It’s Time

As Jamie Vardy prepares to bring the curtain down on his remarkable Leicester City career, it is not the goals, the accolades, or even the glory he will miss most.

2025-04-24T12:20+01:00

by Sam Stevens

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24 Apr, 2025

‘All Good Things Come To An End’ – Vardy On Why It’s Time

As Jamie Vardy prepares to bring the curtain down on his remarkable Leicester City career, it is not the goals, the accolades, or even the glory he will miss most.

Sam Stevens

2025-04-24T12:20+01:00

‘All Good Things Come To An End’ – Vardy On Why It’s Time

As Jamie Vardy prepares to bring the curtain down on his remarkable Leicester City career, it is not the goals, the accolades, or even the glory he will miss most.

Sam Stevens

2025-04-24T12:20+01:00

‘All Good Things Come To An End’ – Vardy On Why It’s Time

As Jamie Vardy prepares to bring the curtain down on his remarkable Leicester City career, it is not the goals, the accolades, or even the glory he will miss most.

Sam Stevens

2025-04-24T12:20+01:00

‘All Good Things Come To An End’ – Vardy On Why It’s Time

As Jamie Vardy prepares to bring the curtain down on his remarkable Leicester City career, it is not the goals, the accolades, or even the glory he will miss most.

Sam Stevens

2025-04-24T12:20+01:00

There will be a time to reflect on those when he hangs up his boots for good. Instead, it’s the moments – fleeting, electric, unrepeatable – shared with the Blue Army and, just as often, with opposition fans. For a striker who turned scoring into theatre, and celebration into an art form, it’s those visceral split-second roars, or wind-ups, that will linger longest as he prepares to bid an emotional goodbye to the Foxes.

The day we hoped would never come will finally arrive this summer, after 13 years of magnificent service, as Vardy leaves the Club as a Premier League, FA Cup, Community Shield and double Championship winner. He’s our third all-time top goalscorer and appearance-maker, but in the here and now, when the 21st century game has reached stratospheric heights, there’s a reason we call him the GOAT in these parts.

“It’ll be a really sad day,” he muses, stood on the King Power Stadium pitch, the scene of his epic Leicester City adventures. It’s where he’s lifted English football’s biggest honours, battled Europe’s most fearsome giants, and authentically lived and breathed every imaginable moment of a defining era to be a Foxes supporter. “It’s something that I’ve thought about and spoken about with my family. I think it’s time.”

By his own admission, the man who rose from obscurity to global acclaim is not one to wear such emotions on his sleeve. He knuckles down, works hard, and lets his performances do the talking. That being said, he admits now that finally calling time on this chapter in his life might just be the occasion which brings a tear to those famously steely eyes.

Simply the greatest of all time.

“I’ll be devastated on the day when it is the last [game], but good things, they come to an end,” he adds. “It’s going to be one of those emotional days. Who knows which way that can go. If you ask anyone, I’m not really an emotional guy. Nothing like that ever comes across with me, but when you’ve been somewhere for so long, and it is time to say goodbye, you just never know what your personal reaction is going to be.”

He's keen to stress that, while he won’t be a City player anymore, this is by no means a full-stop on his association with the Club. He’ll be cheering us on, willing us to succeed, hoping desperately we can match, if not surpass, the achievements of the past 13 years. It’s that ‘family’, as he puts it, which is why it’ll be a gut-punch to say goodbye.

“Especially for me, being here so long, the fans took me in like I was one of their own,” the 38-year-old striker continues. “You always want to repay that and that’s why this Club will always have a massive place in my heart. It’s family. The fans have, ever since I’ve been here, stuck with us through thick and thin.

“It comes to game days, and the atmosphere’s great. And then you get the die-hard ones who are travelling to every single away game as well. It’s really appreciated, it really is. Nothing in the world these days is cheap, so for them to be spending their money to back the club they love and, fortunately for myself, being involved in that for all of the past 13 seasons, it’s an unbelievable feeling.”

Opposition fans, naturally, are somewhat less enamoured with our No.9. His 198 goals for us have come against 48 different clubs, at home and abroad, and he’s always let them know. The ‘rustle king’ has ruled supreme for over a decade and there will be plenty who will be glad to see the back of him – while probably admitting, deep down, a huge admiration from afar as well. If football truly is about entertainment, Vardy is the grand master, leading an orchestra of thunderous applause, or the opposite in some cases.

“Scoring, that’s what I’m there for,” Jamie says, contemplating his day job. “If you ask anyone, it’s probably one of the hardest things you can do because you’ve got somebody who can use their hands in front of you! It’s not the easiest thing, but listen, if you’re good at it, as a striker, that’s what you want to be doing. You want to be scoring the goals, getting the fans on their feet, and no matter which end [I am], if I’m getting a bit of stick, I’ll happily run the length of the pitch to go and celebrate!

“It’s football, it’s entertainment. We’re going to get stick from the fans, but they should be ready to get it back. I don’t think any side of that should be took away from the game itself. It’s part and parcel of it, football’s full of emotions, it needs to be entertaining. That’s a massive part of it. It’s nothing personal, it’s part of the game, it's what gets people going. I love it. I’m not fussed.”

And so, the time is near. The final curtain looms. He’s won pretty much the lot with us here at Leicester City. We’ll never forget the precious moments we shared. You can watch the full interview with Jamie now, over on the LCFC App, LCFC.com and @LCFC on YouTube, where he strides across the Filbert Way turf, talking through his memories. There’s too many to mention, which is why, for so many reasons, he’s the GOAT for Leicester City fans. “You can call me that,” he smirks. “I won’t!”

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