5. Greeted like a returning hero as he took his place among the Toon fans at Coventry City in our first Premiership away game - despite having been transferred by Newcastle just weeks before.
4. Celebrating with Toon fans on the touchline at Ayresome Park in a cup game - then pushing those fans back into the stand to keep them from the clutches of the rapidly-approaching Cleveland Constabulary.
3. Three first half goals (and a song, "David, David Kelly - scored a hat trick on the telly...") on what proved to be his final NUFC appearance - against former club Leicester City at SJP.
That in itself made the moment extra sweet for Kelly - having been forced to seek shelter in the away section at Filbert Street 12 months previously after City fans invaded the pitch and tried to set about him at the end of our game.
2. Applauded on to the field when appearing as a substitute against Newcastle at SJP in April 1997 - despite wearing the red and white shirt of you know who.....
1. There really can be only one winner: to anyone who didn't guess this, you either weren't born, were being held hostage somewhere or are a bona-fide JCL.*
* Jonny come lately.
Can still see the goal now, Mickey Quinn on the right, knocks it forward late on in the game and Kelly scores. It finished 1-0 and we went to Leicester with hope.
That game is another cracker, but we can wait until it is Gavin Peacock's (or Steve White's
) birthday.Niall and Biffa describe it better...
Saturday April 25th 1992 and United were all aboard the Oblivion Express, heading for Division Three at full speed.
Portsmouth were the visitors to SJP in a game of colossal importance. 0-0 going into the dying minutes, Kelly took Quinn's knockdown to bury the ball into the Gallowgate goal. Cue absolute bedlam.
We won 1-0, went on to win at Leicester the next week and avoided the drop.