From the archive - Wolves' original Vardy
Jamie Vardy's incredible run of scoring in 10 consecutive league games means he's one goal away from breaking the post-1992 top-flight record.
But as we're all (hopefully) aware, association football actually began in the 19th century and its history hasn't merely comprised First Division and Premier League games.
And while all the talk is of Vardy possibly breaking Ruud van Nistelrooy's Premier League record for Leicester on Saturday (ironically the Foxes face Manchester United) Vardy has still got three more games to go before he equals the feat of Wolves striker Tom Phillipson.
During the 1926/27 season Phillipson found the net for 13 Second Division matches in succession, a feat barely heralded at the time, in stark contrast to the fuss being made around Vardy.
And for the prolific Phillipson it wasn't exactly a one-off, either – he'd already netted for 10 in a row.
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Born near Newcastle, a young Phillipson began his remarkable goalscoring exploits as a boy, once scoring 14 goals in a single match for his school team (out of 15), following that up with 10 in his next match. Twenty-four goals in two games – not bad.
Phillipson moved to Molineux aged 25 from Swindon Town in December 1923 for a transfer fee one-three-hundredth the size of Wayne Rooney's weekly salary (otherwise known as £1,000) and scored a hat-trick in just his fourth match, an FA Cup tie against Ashington.
His first two seasons saw a modest return of 12 and 16 league goals. But in 1925/26, Phillipson began what you might term a 'hot streak'.
He set a then club record 37 goals in all competitions from 33 appearances. In the final 23 league games of that season, Phillipson scored in 19 of them, including two hat-tricks and four against Barnsley, plus a 10-game scoring streak to boot.
Perhaps even more surprisingly he began 1926/27 with five goalless appearances.
But soon came the fabled 13-game goalscoring run. It began with a hat-trick in a 9-1 demolition of Barnsley (the Tykes were surely sick of the sight of him at this point) on November 6, and continued all the way to a 2-2 draw at Notts County on February 9.
In the run there was also a hat-trick against Clapton Orient and an amazing five in Christmas Day 7-2 hammering of Bradford City.
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The streak (during which which Wolves won just six matches) only ended when he didn't play against Middlesbrough.
He was soon at it again, scoring twice in three successive matches in March, and ended the campaign with 35 in all competitions,
Phillipson's midas touch deserted him in 1927/28. He scored 11 times and new boss Major Frank Buckley clearly wasn't impressed – he sold the Wolves skipper to Sheffield United for a 'substantial' fee.
He spent a short time at Bramall Lane before retiring and then returning to Wolverhampton, where he moved into local government as a councillor for 22 years, and was named mayor in 1944. He died in 1965, aged 67, and remains Wolves' 14th all-time top goalscorer.
It is unclear if Phillipson holds the English football record, with some believing that Leicester's Arthur Chandler scored in 16 consecutive games in the 1920s.
But if any BBC or Sky Sports reporters are asking Vardy what it feels like to break Van Nistelrooy's record, should he do so this weekend, then how about questioning him on whether he fancies his chances of surpassing the great Tom Phillipson.
