Jason Lee (footballer)

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Jason Lee
Personal information
Full name	Jason Lee
Date of birth	May 9, 1971
Place of birth	Forest Gate, England
Height	6ft 3in
Position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Notts County
Number	9
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (goals)
1989-1991 1991 1991-1993 1993-1994 1994-1997 1997 1997 1997-1998 1998-2000 2000-2003 2003-2004 2004-2006 2006 2006-	Charlton Athletic Stockport County (loan) Lincoln City Southend United Nottingham Forest Charlton Athletic (loan) Grimsby Town (loan) Watford Chesterfield Peterborough United Falkirk Boston United Northampton Town Notts County	1 (0) 2 (0) 93 (21) 24 (3) 76 (14) 8 (3) 7 (2) 37 (11) 28 (1) 78 (16) 29 (8) 56 (12) 11 (1) 13 (3)
* Professional club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 02/10/2006.

Jason Lee (born 9 May 1971 in Forest Gate, England) is a footballer, currently playing for Notts County, who enjoyed a brief period of notoriety in the mid-1990s while he played for Nottingham Forest, where he was best remembered for having a rather strange haircut.

Lee began his career at Lincoln City and Southend United. He moved to Nottingham Forest in 1994. Initially Lee failed to crack his way into Forest's first team. However the departure of Stan Collymore to Liverpool saw him feature regularly on the team sheet. In the 1994-95 season he scored eight league goals in 28 games. Lee was transferred to Watford in 1997 for £200,000 - the same fee paid by Forest three years earlier - and played in their 1997-98 Second Division championship-winning side, scoring ten goals. However, Lee's refusal to up-root his family from Nottingham caused tension with manager Graham Taylor, who sold him to Chesterfield early in the 1998-99 season for £250,000.

Since then, he has played for Peterborough (2000-2003), Falkirk (2003-2004), Boston (2004-2006) and moved to Northampton in January 2006. He was part of the Northampton side that won promotion from League Two, appearing 11 times for the Cobblers and scoring one goal. However he was released at the end of the season and subsequently joined Aldershot. His stay at the Shots was a brief one, as a few weeks later he made a move to Notts County in June 2006

Lee's fame however did not derive so much from his talent as the decision of Frank Skinner and David Baddiel to lampoon him, occasionally taking shots at his "pineapple" haircut on their laddish football chat show Fantasy Football League. Following repeated ridicule on the programme, Lee suffered a torrent of chants and abuse from the terraces, including chants like "He's got a pineapple, on his head, he's got a pineapple, on his head!" (to the tune of He's Got The Whole World In His Hands by Laurie London). The main focus of their ridicule however was his perceived inability to hit the target despite being a centre forward, the show regularly featuring clips of him spurning seemingly easy chances. Once the joke wore thin, Lee returned to relative obscurity. He has since shaved his head.

He doesn't often stay at his clubs for very long, the clubs he was played for in a 12 year career are, in chronological order:

• Charlton Athletic
• Stockport County
• Lincoln City
• Southend United
• Nottingham Forest
• Charlton (again)
• Grimsby
• Watford
• Chesterfield
• Peterborough United
• Falkirk
• Boston United
• Northampton Town
• Notts County

[edit] External links

• Profile at UpThePosh! The Peterborough United Database

Notts County F.C. - Current Squad
1 Pilkington | 2 Pipe | 3 McCann | 4 Edwards | 5 White | 6 Somner | 7 Needham | 8 Martin | 9 Lee | 10 Dudfield | 11 Parkinson | 12 Silk | 14 Frost | 15 N'Toya | 16 Sheridan | 17 Hannigan | 18 Hunt | 19 Wilson | 20 Mendes | 21 Curtis | 22 Gleeson | 23 Deeney | 24 Ross | 29 Whitlow | Manager: Thompson