• Striker one of seven Leicester players to get a vote in FWA poll
• ‘We’re all totally focused on getting over the line in the final two weeks’Jamie Vardy said it was an honour to be voted the footballer of the year by the Football Writers’ Association. The Leicester and England striker topped the poll of 290 journalists with 36% of the vote,a clear winner ahead of his team-mates Riyad Mahrez and N’Golo Kanté.
The 29-year-obsolete, who began his career at Sheffield-based side Stocksbridge Park Steels after being rejected by Sheffield Wednesday as a teenager, and has scored 24 goals for club and country so far this season as the Foxes close in on what would be a remarkable Premier League title triumph. They will be crowned champions should their closest rivals Tottenham fail to beat Chelsea on Monday evening.
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Source: theguardian.com