Jamie Vardy seeks Premier League history - but what is the all-time record he should really be chasing?

s Jamie Vardy closes in on Ruud van Nistelrooy’s Premier League record of scoring in 10 consecutive matches, it is difficult to avoid being drawn into questioning whether it is indeed the former Manchester United man’s record that he is chasing.

The formation of the Premier League in 1992 marked a separation from the Football League that has become more significant – particularly in the record books – than the initial name change might have had us expect.

Vardy is looking to make Premier League history

These days feats are judged in accordance with the generation of the Premier League when, of course, football did not merely begin in 1992. It is a different game that has been impacted, globalised and monetised phenomenally by its new title, but that is not reason enough to disregard previously set records that are now barely considered.

Here are 12 Premier League records along with the truth that lies behind them.

Goals in consecutive games

Leicester’s on fire frontman has scored in 9 consecutive matches, leaving him one behind Ruud van Nistelrooy’s 10-game Premier League streak, but look back to the 1931/32 Division One season and Sheffield United’s Jimmy Dunne goes one – well, two – better.