He only played 27 games in over four years at Newcastle, scoring eight goals.And I thought we had seen the end of him.
I remember he was at Wolves for some time, but he just seemed to disappear.
He was making the headlines last night as he popped up for Leicester City and scored a goal that ALMOST knocked Chelsea out of the Carling Cup.
Frank Lampard completed a hat-trick in stoppage-time as Carling Cup holders Chelsea survived an almighty scare to beat Leicester 4-3 and reach this season's quarter-finals.
Avram Grant's men looked like crashing out in a topsy-turvy encounter at Stamford Bridge before their stand-in skipper spared their blushes late on.
City shocked the Blues by taking a sixth-minute lead when Gareth McAuley headed in Matt Fryatt's cross.
But two neat finishes inside nine minutes from Frank Lampard, both laid on by Scott Sinclair, turned the game around inside half an hour.
However, the visitors came roaring back after half-time, DJ Campbell looping a header over the advancing Carlo Cudicini and Carl Cort netting after a free-kick eventually fell to his feet.
Newcastle paid Wimbledon £7m for Cort's services, but the big tall striker suffered with injury throughout 2000/01.
He will be famous for the uproar in a Tesco supermarket when he and his wife pushed to the front of the queue and she said: "Do you know who my husband is?" They were told to get to the back.
Only made one start in 2002/3, once again plagued by injury.
Joined Premiership Wolves to try and save them from relegation ... but didn't.