By the time Jamie Vardy stepped up from 12 yards to add Leicester City’s ninth and put the final nail in Southampton’s coffin, the pocket of delirious travelling supporters, well on their way to revelling in a giddying record-breaking away win, were sarcastically singing for the goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel to take aim from the penalty spot. The only other time a team won by such a margin in the Premier League 24 years ago, another Schmeichel was on the winning side for Manchester United. Leicester fans toasted Vardy’s hat-trick by feverishly waving white scarves bearing the name of their late owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, whose death was a year ago on Sunday, but Saints had long since raised the white flag on a deeply sobering evening.
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Written by Ben Fisher at St Mary’s
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/oct/25/southampton-leicester-premier-league-match-report under the title “Vardy and Pérez hat-tricks as Leicester smash nine against Southampton”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
