Very few people can claim to have created a fad before David Beckham, but talkSPORT football pundit Jason Cundy is definitely one who can.

Long before Becks put the idea in many an impressionable youth’s head that bandanas and sarongs were okay, former Chelsea and Tottenham defender Jason was showing the way in how to lob a goalkeeper from the halfway line in a Premiership match against Ipswich Town at Portman Road in August 1992.

In what Jason describes as an attempted challenge on then Ipswich midfielder Jason Dozzell, turned into possibly the flukiest goal of all time. He clattered the ball on the halfway line and together with a swirling wind, managed to lob Craig Forrest in the Ipswich goal, sparking bewilderment throughout the football world and ensuring Becks spent an extra three hours a night on the training ground.

Jason could be described as being ‘easy-on-the-eye’ but this is talkSPORT, so we’ll refer to him as the ugly duckling.

He began his career at Stamford Bridge and went on to make 57 first-team appearances for Chelsea, before making a switch to North London with Spurs for £750,000 in 1992; soon ensuring his name was registered in the annals of history with his goal against Ipswich.

With the East Anglia outfit still seething at the goal, Ipswich decided to sign the centre back in November 1996 so Craig Forrest and co. could take turns whipping him with towels in the changing room.

Tragedy was to strike in February 1997 when Jason was diagnosed with testicular cancer, but he showed his true colours and came out fighting and after recovering from chemotherapy, defied the odds to make his first-team comeback with The Tractor Boys the following season… what a legend!

Jason has since gone on to be a high profile voice in the battle against testicular cancer and is the patron for the leading charity researcher into male cancer, Everyman, which encourages young men to check themselves in the groin region as much as possible, so just tell your other half that’s why you spend so much time attending to it.

You can hear Jason chatting sexy football, Jason's a Cundy and The Referee's a Winter on Andy Goldstein's Sports Bar every weekend
 

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