Paul Casey (born 6 October 1961) is an English former

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 le ...

who played as a full-back, making 74 appearances in

the Football League The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, the league is the oldest such competition in the world. It was the top-level football league in Engla ...

for

Sheffield United Sheffield United Football Club is a professional football club in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, which compete in the . They are nicknamed "the Blades" due to Sheffield's history of cutlery production. The team have played home games at ...

and Lincoln City.

Career

Casey was born in

Rinteln Rinteln () is a small town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located on the banks of the Weser river above the Porta Westfalica. The town of Rinteln is in the broad valley between the hills of the Weserbergland and the North Lippe Bergland. In rela ...

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...

. He began his football career as an apprentice with

, playing 25 times for the club in the league and helping the club win the

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title in 1981–82, but was then released and joined

Alliance Premier League The National League (named Vanarama National League for sponsorship reasons) is an association football league in Football in England, England consisting of three divisions, the National League (division), National League, National League Nor ...

club

Boston United Boston United Football Club is a semi-professional association football club based in Boston, Lincolnshire, England. The club participates in the National League North, at the sixth tier of the English football league system. The club is known ...

. He played more than 250 first-team games, including an appearance in the 1985

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final, and was the club's player of the season in 1983–84, before moving to Lincoln City in April 1988 for a £13,000 fee. He played the last ten matches of that season as Lincoln clinched the

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title, and went on to make 69 first-team appearances before returning to Boston in 1991. He stayed at Boston for another five seasons, in the Conference and the

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, then moved on to

Lincoln United Lincoln United Football Club is a football club based in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. They are currently members of the and play at Ashby Avenue. Nicknamed the Whites after their home kit colours, they have played at Ashby Avenue since thei ...

References

1961 births Living people People from Rinteln English men's footballers Men's association football defenders Sheffield United F.C. players Boston United F.C. players Lincoln City F.C. players Lincoln United F.C. players English Football League players National League (English football) players Northern Premier League players Footballers from Lower Saxony {{England-footy-defender-1960s-stub