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Jamie Vardy now stands on the threshold of a place in the football record books.

Which is why it's time to put the record straight.

The former Fleetwood striker's run of scoring in nine successive Premier League matches is one of the most heart warming stories of the season.

And every article, news bulletin, or TV show you will read or watch refers to the Leicester striker closing in on Ruud van Nistelrooy's record.

The former Manchester United striker scored in 10 successive top flight matches at the end of the 2002/03 and start of the 2003/04 season.

So we constantly read about Ruud's record.

But while it may be a Premier League record, it is not a modern day scoring record.

Because that is shared with a striker from around these parts.

John Aldridge also scored in 10 successive top flight matches – just like van Nistelrooy split between two seasons - in the last match of the 1986/87 season and the first nine league matches of 1987/88.

Yet it's never mentioned.

It's always Ruud's record – because his came in the Premier League era.

I completely understand why there perhaps needs to be a cut-off period, something to distinguish old records from more modern achievements.

Because times change.

Records set in the 'olden' days do not bear comparison with more modern times.

Dixie Dean once scored in 12 successive matches. But that was in the Second Division – and at a time when the average goals per season scored in the top flight was 3.94 per season.

But the late 80s weren't dramatically different to the Premier League era – in fact it was slightly harder to score goals then than it is now.

In the first season of the Premier League, 1992/93, the average was 2.65 goals per game.

In the 1987/88 season, when Aldridge scored in the opening nine matches, just 2.49 goals per match were scored.

When van Nistelrooy set his 'record' in 2003/04 the average goals per game was 2.66.

So if Jamie Vardy does score a record levelling tenth goal at Newcastle on November 21, it will be van Nistelrooy AND John Aldridge's record he has levelled.

Instead of Premier League record, perhaps we should now refer to top flight record?