IT is always good when a player from the non-league game makes it big.

Which is why it is great to see Jamie Vardy out in front at the top of the Premier League goalscoring charts.

The 28-year-old has been in redhot form for Leicester City and is already the first player to score in nine consecutive top-flight matches in the same season.

It has been quite a remarkable rise for the striker, who Worcester City fans may remember scoring against their team for Halifax at St George’s Lane in August 2011.

He could yet scale the heights of going to the European Championships in France with England next summer, which would be the icing on the cake.

What Vardy’s story shows is that players can make it if they’re good enough.

Another who has run Worcester ragged in the past is Duncan Watmore, who Sunderland plucked from Altrincham in 2013 and is slowly getting his chance under Sam Allardyce at the Stadium of Light.

Luton Town boss John Still this week said that there are plenty more talented players where Vardy came from currently plying their trade in non-league.

He’s right as well.

You only need to look at the FA Cup first round last weekend to see that. But such players also need managers of bigger clubs to show faith in them.

Unfortunately, it is often easier to pay for experience than risk a punt that a player can step up and make the grade at a higher level.

Vardy’s exploits should prove that really doesn’t always have to be the case.