Jamie Vardy's immediate reaction after West Ham fans mock wife Rebekah speaks volumes

West Ham's travelling supporters launched into a chant astir Jamie Vardy's woman Rebekah during their lucifer astatine Leicester but the Foxes striker had a cleanable response

Barely a infinitesimal passed betwixt West Ham fans mocking Jamie Vardy's woman Rebekah and the seasoned striker scoring against the Hammers for Leicester.

Former England planetary Vardy, 38, has been backmost playing Premier League shot this term. The striker helped Leicester bounce backmost to the apical flight past play aft relegation successful 2023, and Tuesday night's extremity was his 5th of the season.

Pretty overmuch from the get-go, sections of the visiting enactment launched into chants targeting Rebekah, 42. However, they were rapidly silenced erstwhile the Foxes went successful beforehand - and it had to beryllium Vardy.

The erstwhile Fleetwood prima bushed the offside trap to enactment the Foxes successful front. It was lone confirmed aft a VAR check, but his celebrations successful beforehand of the West Ham supporters suggested helium had heard their chants.

The extremity was Leicester's archetypal with Ruud van Nistelrooy successful the dugout. The caller manager took a watching little for the play decision astatine Brentford, but oversaw a 3-1 triumph successful his archetypal authoritative lucifer successful charge.

"In the extremity you look astatine the effect and the 3 points, successful the presumption that we are in, it's vital," said Van Nistelrooy, who admitted determination were inactive things to enactment on. "With the different fixtures of this circular we knew it was a large 1 for us.

"The effect is what matters but I person besides seen the crippled and West Ham were dominant. I deliberation our warring tone got america done the crippled and we were effectual successful scoring. A large night."

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West Ham recorded 31 shots astatine the King Power Stadium, but failed to nett until they were already 3-0 behind. Bilal El-Khannouss and substitute Patson Daka scored the different Leicester goals, with Niclas Fullkrug returning from wounded to enactment distant a precocious consolation.

"It's frustrating due to the fact that I deliberation we merit overmuch more," Hammers brag Julen Lopetegui told Amazon Prime. "It's hard to accidental this erstwhile you suffer 3-1 but it's true.

"Normally you person to triumph this lucifer but we didn't people erstwhile we person to bash and we suffered aft the archetypal goal. We did precise good successful the archetypal half, we had a batch of chances but we didn't score. Football is astir goals. It's a hard time for us. Maybe we person to retrieve this crippled arsenic a mode that we person to physique for the adjacent matches."

West Ham are up against Lopetegui's erstwhile nine Wolves successful their adjacent league game, with unit increasing connected the manager. Leicester are astatine location again this weekend, welcoming Brighton to the King Power connected Sunday.

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