Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy admits he almost quit the club after the first season.

The striker was so down in the dumps in 2012, that he requested to be loaned back before even contemplating packing it in all together for a life on the party isle.

Ahead of Leicester's FA Cup final with Chelsea, Vardy, 34, said: "Moving to Ibiza felt a good idea at the time. It felt a really good idea. Thank God I didn't. It was one of those things.

"I'd never been in that environment — playing in the Championship, struggling, the performances and the goals not coming and it does make you think.

"I had a chat with Nigel Pearson at one point and I was trying to get him to loan me back to Fleetwood, just because I'd had success there.

"He said, 'Listen, you're good enough, just knuckle down, you can play a lot higher'. At that stage I knew he believed in me and after that it all clicked together. It was a learning curve.

"The big jump in standard took a bit of time getting used to and then the season after we got promoted."