Monday Match! 🦊Foxes and Magpies

There’s no better way to ease into Monday than with a little Premier League Monday Matchday (try saying that five times fast).

After a weekend full of epic — and not-so-epic — games (C’mon Manchester), we could all use a chill fixture to relax with and have some fun.

— Gabe

🐧 Magpies vs Foxes🦊
How does the saying go? “What goes up must… go back down?” Something like that. After earning promotion last season, Leicester’s return to the Premier League looks to be short-lived — their drop looks more and more inevitable.

Newcastle, on the other hand, are trying to cement themselves as a serious force in the league. But it turns out, a $409 million (Saudi investment) doesn’t make that happen overnight.

That said, it’s at least starting to pay off — Newcastle lifted their first domestic cup in 70 years this season. Not a bad first step.

🔑Players to Watch:

⚫⚪Newcastle – Isak’s so Hot Right Now
Newcastle’s leading scorer, Alexander Isak, is probable for today’s match — and if he starts, Leicester better be ready. With 20 goals on the season and the game-winner in the EFL Cup still fresh in the memory, Isak is “flying high”(bird pun).

🦊 Leicester – Who Else but Vardy?
The player we love to love. Jamie Vardy always looks like he rolled out of bed, cracked a Red Bull, and hit the pitch — in the best way possible. With 7 of Leicester’s 25 league goals this season, he’s still scrappy, still dangerous, and still someone you absolutely have to account for.

📉 Head to Head
Newcastle have had the upper hand, winning six of their last ten meetings against Leicester. Not the least of which was the 4-0 thumping back in Dec.

📊 The Table

⚡The Premier League’s Ultimate Underdog⚡

They don’t make them like they used to…

Jamie Vardy's career reads like a footballing fairy tale. Once playing non-league football for Stocksbridge Park Steels, he didn't make his professional debut until age 25, when he joined Leicester City in 2012 from Fleetwood Town for just £1 million — a then-record fee for a non-league player. Vardy played in every level of the English football league system, something unheard of by todays standards.

What came next? Absolute madness.

By 2016, he was a Premier League champion, leading the charge in Leicester’s 5000-to-1 title-winning season and breaking the record for goals in 11 consecutive PL matches. Vardy went from Sunday League pitches to scoring against Manchester United in front of millions — all with the same edge, fire, and a energy drink in hand.

Now 37, he's still bagging goals, still winding up defenders, and still the heartbeat of Leicester — even as the club fights to stay afloat. Whether you love him or hate him, Jamie Vardy captures the heart of the classic English footballer.