| Jason Eaton - Striker |
(photo courtesy of the ) |
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| Jason was signed from Bristol City for £10,000 in November 1990. He'd started out with Trowbridge Town before trying his luck with both league sides in the Avon county town ahead of him heading to Meadow Park for a fee, a very rare occurance when a non-league team shells out a five figure sum for a professional. |
| Before long Eaton was firing the goals that saw City flirt with promotion but the final day heartbreak mean't that it all ended in tears. As big names around him left the popular striker stuck around for a further eighteen months before he publicly expressed a desire to join former Bristol Rovers mentor Lyndsay Parsons at hated rivals Cheltenham. Not what the Tigers fans wanted to hear. |
| Chairman George Irvine described the transfer as the easiest £19,000 he'd ever made but it didn't sit so well with the City supporters and when the two teams met Eaton was rightly greeted with venom from the T-End. Songs such as |
Eaton takes it up the ass
doo-dah, doo-dah
Eaton takes it up the ass
doo-dah, doo-dah, day
How do we know?
Lyndsay told us so
Eaton takes it up the ass
doo-dah, doo-dah, day |
| were sung in unison by the T-End at both Meadow Park and Whaddon Road. Eaton had become the catalyst that set the wheels in motion as Cheltenham started their lucky climb into the Football League and City fell away to the lower tier of the Southern League. |
| Deemed not good enough for a return to the pro game he was sold to Yeovil Town for £15,000, a move which showed him up as an average striker before he hit the road and became the mercenary that he is today. |
| Over a short period of time he represented the likes of Newport County, Forest Green Rovers, Basingstoke Town, Bath City and Merthyr Tydfil making him quite unique in that he'd played for both sides in at least FOUR bitterly contested local derbies. |
| Then, unbelievably Chris Burns brought him back to Meadow Park in the laziest, most short sighted transfer in the history of football. Sadly many City fans lived up to the fickle tag that supporters are often adorned with but this website and the T-Ender weren't so welcoming and my shout of "Piss Off Eaton" as he took to the field as a second half substitute at Tiverton underlined pretty much how I felt about Scumboy's return. |
| Fortunately, after a handful of games and one easy tap in he was bombed out back to the Screwfix league with the Tiger Roar banner headline of "Ding Dong the Witch is dead" seeing him on his way. He headed back to Brislington where he'd been on loan from Merthyr when City snapped him up but finished the season with Mangotsfield as they won the Division One West Championship. |
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Previous Clubs:
Trowbridge Town, Bristol Rovers, Bristol City |
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Appearances & Goals: (upto & including 30/04/05)
| Season |
Apps |
Subs |
Goals |
| 1990/91 |
- |
- |
- |
| 1991/92 |
44 |
1 |
19 |
| 1992/93 |
- |
- |
- |
| 1993/94 |
- |
- |
- |
| 2004/05 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
| Total |
- |
- |
- |
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