Paul Elliott (footballer)

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Paul Elliott
CBE
Personal information
Full name Paul Marcellus Elliott[1]
Date of birth (1964-03-18) 18 March 1964 (age 60)[1]
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

References

  1. ^ a b c "Paul Elliott". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  2. ISBN 978-0-356-14354-5
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  3. ^ "Celtic player details: Elliott, Paul". Fitbastats. Bobby Sinnet & Thomas Jamieson. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
  4. ^ "Meet our latest Weekend Wonder: Paul Elliott". Weekend Wonders (FourFourTwo). Archived from the original on 14 June 2015. Retrieved 22 October 2015.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "Chelsea – 1993/94". FootballSquads. Retrieved 7 June 2010.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ Profile, kickitout.org; accessed 27 March 2015.
  9. ^ "No. 60173". The London Gazette (Supplement). 16 June 2012. p. 7.
  10. ^ "Notice of CBE for Paul Elliott". BBC Sport. 16 June 2012. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
  11. ^ Paul Elliott statement, thefa.com; accessed 27 March 2015.
  12. ^ Elliott rejoins Inclusion Advisory Board, thefa.com; accessed 27 March 2015.
  13. ^ Kirk, Tristan (12 January 2023). "Ex-Premier League footballer Richard Rufus jailed over £15 million pyramid scheme fraud". Evening Standard. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
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