Paul Elliott (footballer)
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Paul Marcellus Elliott[1] | ||
Date of birth | [1] | 18 March 1964||
Place of birth | Lewisham,[1] London, England | ||
Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)[2] | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1980–1983 | Charlton Athletic | 63 | (1) |
1983–1985 | Luton Town | 66 | (4) |
1985–1987 | Aston Villa | 57 | (7) |
1987–1989 |
Pisa | 23 | (1) |
1989–1991 | Celtic[3] | 52 | (2) |
1991–1994 | Chelsea | 42 | (3) |
Total | 303 | (18) | |
International career | |||
1984–1986 |
England U21 | 3 | (1) |
1991 |
England B | 1 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Paul Marcellus Elliott CBE (born 18 March 1964) is an English former footballer who played as a defender.
Playing career
Starting his career with
Scottish Footballer of the Year award. In the summer of 1991, he signed for Chelsea for £1,400,000.[4]
In September 1992, Elliott sustained a serious knee injury, resulting from a challenge by
FA Premier League.[6]
Just after his retirement, Elliott filed a lawsuit against Saunders seeking damages for the career-ending injury. However, he lost the case when a civil court found that Saunders was not at fault.[7] Elliott was often a pundit on Football Italia.[citation needed]
Post-playing career
In
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to equality and diversity in football.[9][10]
Elliott resigned from his roles with
The FA, as a member of the Association's Judicial Panel and as a nominated member of UEFA committees on 23 February 2013. He also left his role at Kick It Out. The FA accepted his resignation following a reported text conversation in which "discriminatory abusive comments" were made to fellow former footballer Richard Rufus.[11] On 15 July 2014, Elliott rejoined the Inclusion Advisory Board.[12]
Elliott was a victim of Rufus's multi-million pound
investment fraud, for which Rufus was jailed for seven-and-a-half years in 2023.[13]
Honours
Individual
- SPFA Players' Player of the Year: 1990–91
- Chelsea Player of the Year: 1992
References
- ^ a b c "Paul Elliott". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
- ISBN 978-0-356-14354-5.
- ^ "Celtic player details: Elliott, Paul". Fitbastats. Bobby Sinnet & Thomas Jamieson. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
- ^ "Meet our latest Weekend Wonder: Paul Elliott". Weekend Wonders (FourFourTwo). Archived from the original on 14 June 2015. Retrieved 22 October 2015.
- ^ Winter, Henry (10 May 1994). "Football: Elliott 'devastated' by knee diagnosis: Chelsea's popular defender bows out of the professional game". The Independent. London, UK. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 7 June 2010.
- ^ "Chelsea – 1993/94". FootballSquads. Retrieved 7 June 2010.
- ^ Midgley, Simon (11 June 1994). "Injured footballer loses pounds 1m damages case: Better insurance for players urged as defender whose career was ended faces huge costs. Simon Midgley reports". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022.
- ^ Profile, kickitout.org; accessed 27 March 2015.
- ^ "No. 60173". The London Gazette (Supplement). 16 June 2012. p. 7.
- ^ "Notice of CBE for Paul Elliott". BBC Sport. 16 June 2012. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
- ^ Paul Elliott statement, thefa.com; accessed 27 March 2015.
- ^ Elliott rejoins Inclusion Advisory Board, thefa.com; accessed 27 March 2015.
- ^ Kirk, Tristan (12 January 2023). "Ex-Premier League footballer Richard Rufus jailed over £15 million pyramid scheme fraud". Evening Standard. Retrieved 12 January 2023.