Jason Lee (footballer)
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Jason Lee (born May 9, 1971 in Forest Gate, England) is a footballer who enjoyed a brief period of notoriety in the mid-1990s.
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.
Lee's fame however did not derive so much from his play as the decision of Frank Skinner and David Baddiel to lampoon him, and in particular 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. Once the joke wore thin, Lee returned to relative obscurity.