JASON CUNDY turns the timepiece backmost to 1992 and the archetypal period of the all-new Premier League.
The 55-year-old erstwhile defender, who present works for talkSPORT co-presenting the Sports Bar with Jamie O’Hara, reflects connected his freak ‘clearance’ extremity from 50 yards to springiness Tottenham the pb astatine Ipswich.
Jason Cundy talks THAT extremity for Tottenham against Ipswich successful 1992
Cundy scored a fluky extremity from past the half-way line
Cundy is present a presenter connected talkSPORTI would love to archer you I looked up, spotted Ipswich keeper Craig Forrest disconnected his line, measured my changeable from 50 yards and the shot flew successful conscionable arsenic I had planned.
But here’s the TRUTH of what truly happened 33 years ago.
I was conscionable wrong Ipswich’s fractional and the shot was played into a abstraction which I thought was going to extremity up being a 50-50 situation betwixt myself and Jason Dozzell.
My thought process was that I wanted to marque definite I got to the shot arsenic speedy arsenic imaginable to debar determination being immoderate benignant of interaction betwixt the 2 of us.
What played retired was Jason didn’t marque the expected situation by which clip I was afloat committed.
My projected tackle ended up being a wholly freakish clearance that ballooned successful the upwind and sailed implicit the apical of a flailing Forrest successful the Ipswich goal.
As a defender, I didn’t people that galore goals successful my vocation — successful information this was my lone 1 for Tottenham.
But due to the fact that it’s wholly niche, this 1 resurfaces whenever a postulation of madcap Premier League goals are replayed.
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It’s besides unusual however 30 oregon much years tin blur definite moments . . . and facts too.
It wasn’t until I looked backmost astatine this crippled to spot that Tottenham were bottommost of the table going into this crippled successful the all-new Premier League.
And that this gully took america disconnected the ft of the league.
It took maine by implicit astonishment due to the fact that I had nary recollection that we had started truthful slowly.
I had joined Tottenham successful March, 1992 backmost successful the days erstwhile the ‘transfer window’ went connected until March.
The determination came wholly retired of nowhere.
Manager Ian Porterfield called maine successful and told maine Chelsea had accepted an connection from Tottenham.
I wasn’t blessed with the mode it was a ‘done deal’ and nary 1 had adjacent talked to me.
But backmost then, if I had decided to crook it down I could person rather virtually been thrown into the reserves and ne'er played successful the first squad again.
I heard again from Porterfield soon aft that a gathering had been acceptable up with Tottenham’s Terry Venables. And that was it.
It was unusual due to the fact that Peter Shreeves was manager erstwhile I joined Tottenham with Terry taking training.
Then we started 1992-93 with Doug Livermore and Ray Clemence successful charge.
Sadly, contempt spending 4 years astatine White Hart Lane — with a mates of indebtedness spells astatine Crystal Palace and Bristol City — my time at the nine was blighted with injuries.
By axenic coincidence I ended up switching from Spurs to Ipswich successful 1996 and truthful was backmost astatine the crushed of this bizarre extremity moment.
It besides meant that 1 of my caller team-mates was Forrest — the unfortunate keeper who conceded my brainsick goal.
I person to accidental adjacent earlier we became bully friends I had truthful overmuch sympathy for him for having to ticker those endless repeats of the goal.
It’s brainsick to deliberation that helium played for 17 years, made 56 appearances for his state — yet astir radical lone retrieve him for either my onslaught oregon conceding 9 astatine Manchester United successful the Premier League!
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