Paul Clark (footballer)
Appearance
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Paul Peterson Clark | ||
Date of birth | 14 September 1958 | ||
Place of birth | Benfleet, England | ||
Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[1] | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1976–1977 | Southend United | 33 | (1) |
1977–1982 | Brighton & Hove Albion | 79 | (9) |
1981 | → Reading (loan) | 2 | (0) |
1982–1991 | Southend United | 278 | (3) |
1991–1994 | Gillingham | 90 | (1) |
1994–1995 | Chelmsford City | ||
1995–1996 | Cambridge United | 2 | (0) |
1996–???? | Leyton Orient | 0 | (0) |
Billericay Town | |||
International career | |||
1974 | England Schoolboys | 7 | (0) |
1977 | England Youth | 6 | (0) |
Managerial career | |||
1987–1988 | Southend United | ||
1992 | Gillingham (caretaker) | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Paul Peterson Clark (born 14 September 1958) is an English former professional footballer. His clubs included Southend United, Brighton & Hove Albion and Gillingham.[2]
Career
[edit]While at Southend United, he was made player-manager during the 1986–87 season. When Paul Lambert left Colchester United three games into the 2009–10 season, Clark was brought in by caretaker manager Joe Dunne as assistant manager until Aidy Boothroyd's appointment as manager.
References
[edit]- ^ Dunk, Peter, ed. (1987). Rothmans Football Yearbook 1987–88. London: Queen Anne Press. p. 340. ISBN 978-0-356-14354-5.
- ^ Triggs, Roger (2001). The Men Who Made Gillingham Football Club. Tempus Publishing Ltd. p. 89. ISBN 0-7524-2243-X.
Categories:
- 1958 births
- Living people
- People from South Benfleet
- Footballers from Essex
- English men's footballers
- Men's association football defenders
- Gillingham F.C. players
- Southend United F.C. players
- Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. players
- Reading F.C. players
- Cambridge United F.C. players
- Leyton Orient F.C. players
- Chelmsford City F.C. players
- Billericay Town F.C. players
- English Football League players
- English football managers
- Southend United F.C. managers
- Gillingham F.C. managers
- English football defender, 1950s birth stubs