Paul Shaw (born 4 September 1973) is an English retired

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who played as an

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. He has also worked as a coach at

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and with

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Playing career

Shaw started his career as a trainee at

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, turning professional in 1991. His debut came against

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on 3 December 1994. Unable to break into the Arsenal first team, Shaw spent periods on loan with

Burnley Burnley () is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Burnley in Lancashire, England, with a 2001 population of 73,021. It is north of Manchester and east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River Bru ...

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and

Peterborough United Peterborough United Football Club is an English professional football club based in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England. The team compete in League One, the third tier of the English football league system. Peterborough have a long-standing ...

during his time at Arsenal, before he was sold to

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in September 1997. He made 13 appearances in six years for the Gunners, all but one of them as substitute, scoring two goals with both coming against

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in the 1996–97 season, one at home and one away. Shaw spent three years with Millwall before moving to Gillingham in 2000. He left Gillingham for

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in 2004 but unable to break into the first team had a loan spells at

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. He subsequently signed for the team but after just 17 appearances moved on a free transfer to Chesterfield in 2006. He found his opportunities at

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limited, and left the club by mutual consent in August 2007 and joined

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shortly afterwards. In October 2007 he left Oxford to join Hungarian team

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. Shaw returned to English football by joining

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of the NPL Premier Division. He left the club in February 2011 and signed as captain of the new American side

in the

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league on 1 March 2011. On 23 May 2011, it was announced that Coach

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had resigned from his position at

, and Paul Shaw had been made interim head coach.

Coaching career

On 21 May 2012, Shaw was named the boys' senior academy coaching director for the youth academy of

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References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Shaw, Paul 1973 births Living people People from Burnham, Buckinghamshire Footballers from Buckinghamshire English footballers Men's association football forwards Arsenal F.C. players Burnley F.C. players Cardiff City F.C. players Peterborough United F.C. players Millwall F.C. players Gillingham F.C. players Sheffield United F.C. players Rotherham United F.C. players Chesterfield F.C. players Oxford United F.C. players Ferencvárosi TC footballers F.C. New York players Retford United F.C. players Premier League players English Football League players Nemzeti Bajnokság I players USL Championship players English expatriate footballers English expatriate sportspeople in Hungary English expatriate sportspeople in the United States Expatriate footballers in Hungary Expatriate soccer players in the United States Orlando City SC non-playing staff