🚨🗣️Danny Drinkwater
Vards was always on another level before games. He’d crack open a Red Bull, chug it down then go absolutely mental he starts sprinting in circles around the dressing room, screaming, ‘I’m a f***ing cheetah! Let’s go, boys, cheetah speed!’ He’s dodging kit bags, smashes into a bench, we’re all just pissing ourselves laughing. Ranieri is standing there, trying to stay calm like he always does, and he just looks at him and says, ‘Jamie, please, be a cheetah on the pitch, not in my locker room!’ Vards didn’t even hear him, he just kept going, shouting about being a cheetah until we had to go out for warm-ups.”
This professional gambler broke football.
Tony Bloom made MILLIONS betting on sports.
Then he applied those same tactics to Brighton FC.
Taking them from bankruptcy to $860 million.
His most brilliant insight? A strange approach everyone else ignored:
On flat tracks, on minefields, on cobra pitches, on green tops, on raging turners, on bouncy wickets, under heavy cloud cover, under blazing sun, in spinning dustbowls, in seaming paradises.
THE GREATEST
Embarrassing way to go out so a crazy overreaction is expected but some poor performances and genuine bad luck in the last two months is what cost us a decent shot at promotion. Lessons to learn and small changes to make to make sure we're better next year but we will be.