Leicester City's former Fleetwood great Jamie Vardy must wait for magical milestone

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The striker is on the brink of becoming the 29th player to reach the landmark.

The Sheffield-born, 33-year-old’s one season at Highbury was enough for Vardy to write himself into Fleetwood folklore.

His 31 goals in 35 league appearances in 2011-12 for Town, in what was then the Conference Premier, played a massive part in the club winning the title to gain promotion to the Football League.

Vardy moved to the Foxes, then a Championship club, that summer and is now in his eighth season at Leicester.

The past six have been spent in the Premier League, including that unforgettable title win of 2015-16.

Vardy’s 99 Premier League goals have come in 202 appearances. He has taken 425 shots, according to the official Premier League website, 213 of which have been on target.

It is no surprise Arsenal were persistently linked with signing Vardy after Leicester’s title win.

He scored three goals against them that season despite the Gunners doing the double over Leicester, and has nine against them in total in his Premier League career.

He seemingly saves his best for the big occasion, with Liverpool on the receiving end of another seven of his goals.

He has six against Everton and five against each of Aston Villa, Bournemouth, Manchester City, Newcastle, Southampton, Tottenham and Watford, and has scored against 25 opponents in total.

Vardy’s most prolific season came in that shock title-winning campaign, when he netted 24 goals to match Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero for second place in the Golden Boot race, one goal behind Tottenham’s Harry Kane.

He also scored 20 in 2017-18 and is one goal shy of doing so again this season. He has hit double figures in all but his maiden top-flight campaign of 2014-15.

Vardy’s right foot has accounted for the lion’s share of his goals – 62 of 99 according to premierleague.com – while he has 25 with his left foot and 12 headers.

Vardy has scored a single goal on 63 occasions, along with 15 doubles and two hat-tricks.

Those trebles came in this season’s 9-0 rout of Southampton and a 4-2 win over Manchester City in December 2016.

That makes a total of 80 games in which he has scored, of which Leicester have won 51, drawn 12 and lost 17.

Vardy looks set to be the 12th-quickest man to 100 Premier League goals.

Alan Shearer set the record, taking just 124 games, with Kane and Aguero the only others to get there within 150 games as well as being the only current Premier League strikers with 100-plus goals.

Thierry Henry, Ian Wright, Robbie Fowler, Les Ferdinand, Michael Owen, Andy Cole, Robin van Persie and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink also reached the milestone in 200 games or fewer, with Vardy already just outside that mark but with 13 games in which to beat Romelu Lukaku’s 216.

Vardy has scored 18 of the 22 penalties he has taken in the Premier League.

BBC pundit Shearer’s first century also featured 18 penalties, with only Matt Le Tissier (25), Steven Gerrard (20) and Frank Lampard (19) more reliant on spot-kicks to reach three figures.