{"id":19431,"date":"2016-06-25T12:29:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T19:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/?p=19431"},"modified":"2016-06-25T12:30:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T19:30:08","slug":"vinnie-jones-set-to-play-hardman-pearson-in-vardy-biopic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/?p=19431","title":{"rendered":"Vinnie Jones set to play hard man Pearson in Vardy biopic!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seanborg.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16505\" src=\"http:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sean-borg-final.gif\" alt=\"sean-borg-final\" width=\"216\" height=\"39\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tough guy\u00a0Vinnie Jones\u00a0has confirmed he has been offered the role of\u00a0former Leicester City manager\u00a0Nigel Pearson\u00a0in a planned big screen biopic\u00a0about\u00a0Jamie Vardy\u00a0\u2013 as he hit out at modern day footballl.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19438\" src=\"http:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/vinnie-jones-nigel-pearson.gif\" alt=\"vinnie-jones-nigel-pearson\" width=\"216\" height=\"124\" \/>\u201cI\u2019ve been approached and I\u2019ve said that I\u2019m interested, but there\u2019s still a long way to go before that goes into production or anything comes from it. I would like to do it though,\u201d\u00a0he said, in an interview with\u00a0CALIBRE Quarterly\u00a0magazine.<\/p>\n<p>But the ex-soccer\u00a0hardman added that raw homegrown talent is slipping through the Premiership\u2019s net because overseas bosses are too lazy.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-midfielder blasted non-British managers for not making the effort to watch non-league matches outside of the major cities.<\/p>\n<p>This prissy attitude is making it\u00a0\u201charder and harder\u201d\u00a0for the likes of Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy and other unsung talent to make the leap from lower divisions.<\/p>\n<p>Jones played for Conference League side Wealdstone before joining Wimbledon FC, a club for which he went on to play over 200 games during two spells.<\/p>\n<p>51-year-old Jones, who now lives in Los Angeles,\u00a0is rated favorite for the role ahead of fellow \u2018Lock, Stock\u2019 star\u00a0Jason Statham\u00a0and\u00a0Ray Stevenson, from TV\u2019s \u2018Rome\u2019\u00a0after a\u00a0vote on the Pearson casting ran in the Leicester Mercury.\u00a0It appears the producers of the movie agreed with the poll.<\/p>\n<p>He said:\u00a0\u201cNon-league football has been proven to be a place where great players can be found. Just look at Ian Wright, John Barnes, and Stuart Pearce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNon-league football is a tough place to\u00a0learn\u00a0the game but it sets you on the right track and gives you that passion, heart and desire to go on and succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Earlier this year it was revealed in the British Weekly that Jones\u00a0was being lined up for the role by producers\u2026\u00a0We always knew!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Tough guy\u00a0Vinnie Jones\u00a0has confirmed he has been offered the role of\u00a0former Leicester City manager\u00a0Nigel Pearson\u00a0in a planned big screen biopic\u00a0about\u00a0Jamie Vardy\u00a0\u2013 as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sean-borg-goes-la"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19431"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19440,"href":"https:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19431\/revisions\/19440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}