Chris Kelly (born 14 October 1948) is an English former professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who played in

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, as a forward. Kelly began his career at Tooting & Mitcham United before becoming a vital part of

Leatherhead Leatherhead is a town in the Mole Valley district of Surrey, England, about south of Central London. The settlement grew up beside a ford on the River Mole, from which its name is thought to derive. During the late Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxon ...

's cup run in 1974–1975. As a result of this Kelly received minor celebrity status and because of his outspoken comments became known as the "Leatherhead Lip". On the back of the cup run, Kelly made a brief but unsuccessful move to

Millwall Millwall is a district on the western and southern side of the Isle of Dogs, in east London, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It lies to the immediate south of Canary Wharf and Poplar, north of Greenwich and Deptford, east of ...

in 1975 after which he returned to Leatherhead where he saw out his career.

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1948 births Living people Footballers from Epsom English men's footballers Men's association football forwards Millwall F.C. players Tooting & Mitcham United F.C. players Leatherhead F.C. players English Football League players {{England-footy-forward-1940s-stub